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Wighton gets go ahead to play for Raiders<br />
AN ELATED Jack Wighton<br />
is free to play in Canberra’s<br />
qualifying final after being found<br />
not guilty of a shoulder charge.<br />
<strong>The</strong> NRL judiciary panel of<br />
Sean Garlick, Royce Ayliffe and<br />
Mal Cochrane, took just five<br />
minutes to find Wighton not<br />
guilty of the grade-two shoulder<br />
charge on Wests Tigers forward<br />
Joel Edwards.<br />
Wighton faced a four-match<br />
ban if found guilty on Tuesday<br />
night at Rugby League Central.<br />
“It was good to get the result. I<br />
can’t wait to get out on the park<br />
on the weekend. I was always<br />
confident. I always had faith,”<br />
Wighton told the New Zealand<br />
Herald.<br />
“It was just one of those tackles<br />
that looked worse than what it<br />
was.<br />
“It has been a long day, a rough<br />
start to the week and it is good to<br />
get it over with.<br />
“I am just really excited about<br />
the weekend.”<br />
Raiders coach Ricky Stuart<br />
said it was a verdict star fullback<br />
Wighton deserved.<br />
“I am really happy with the<br />
hearing and for the team and for<br />
Jack,” Stuart said.<br />
“He has been pretty settled<br />
and confident for two days. He<br />
has handled himself really well<br />
because he has put so much into<br />
the season.”<br />
Stuart admitted the case had<br />
been a distraction for his team.<br />
“I wanted to do some stuff with<br />
the team this afternoon and we<br />
had to postpone it,” he said.<br />
“We haven’t had a session this<br />
week. But we will get through it.<br />
It is a challenge. It is not going to<br />
be anything but another hurdle<br />
we have to overcome.”<br />
In arguing his case, judiciary<br />
prosecutor Peter McGrath conceded<br />
the first point of contact<br />
between Wighton and Edwards<br />
was their forearms but said that<br />
didn’t matter.<br />
“It was a classic shoulder<br />
charge that player Wighton was<br />
at least careless in the way he effected<br />
it,” McGrath said.<br />
Wighton’s defence counsel<br />
Nick Ghabar said the tackle was<br />
“more a collision than a charge”.<br />
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