North Queensland’s hopes of playing finals football have taken a massive hit with star centre Valentine Holmes rubbed out for the rest of the regular season after he was banned for four matches at a bizarre judiciary hearing on Tuesday night.
Holmes would have missed three games if he pleaded guilty to a grade two careless high tackle challenge on Gold Coast’s Jayden Campbell when he jammed in and shouldered him to the head, but tried to have the punishment downgraded to a fine.
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