Super League: Nine players banned after opening weekend fixtures

Catalans Dragons' Dylan Napa was sent off against St Helens in the opening game of the Super League season

Nine players have been handed bans after Super League's opening weekend.

Leeds Rhinos' James Bentley and Catalans Dragons' Dylan Napa have both been given four-match bans, with Bentley handed an extra one-game ban from his original three for a "frivolous challenge".

Reece Lyne, of Wakefield Trinity, and Catalans prop Gil Dudson have been banned for three games.

Andre Savelio, of Hull FC, and Hull KR's Albert Vete will miss two games.

Warrington Wolves' Oliver Holmes will also miss two matches after his initial one-game ban was changed to a two-match suspension after the Rugby Football League match review panel deemed his appeal against the ban to have been "frivolous".

Brad Dwyer of Leeds and Jake Connor of Hull FC have both been given one-match bans.

Vete has also been cautioned for other contrary behaviour.

However, three players who were cited have escaped further punishment - Ben Currie of Warrington, Wakefield's Jacob Miller and Joseph Paulo of Toulouse.

The decisions were made in a meeting of the game's match review panel following an opening round which saw three red cards in the competition's six fixtures.

There has been a crackdown on high tackles, with a directive from the RFL that referees should raise penalties for all head contacts.