Sydney Roosters prop Lindsay Collins will be available for Australia’s second World Cup match against Scotland after being allowed to include Sunday’s Prime Minister’s XIII match in his suspension.
Roosters front-row partner Jared Waerea-Hargreaves will also be able to include New Zealand’s World Cup warm-up match against Leeds in his ban, enabling him to return in the third pool match against Ireland.
NRL judiciary chairman, Justice Geoff Bellew, granted the dispensation to the pair after the Roosters wrote to him seeking to have the fixtures included in the suspensions for Collins and Waerea-Hargreaves.
The ruling follows a similar decision by the Rugby Football League to allow John Bateman to serve two matches of a three match ban in…
