Wagga City centre Ritchie Herangi is unable to line up in the return clash against CSU at Beres Ellwood Oval on Saturday.
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Herangi was red carded as the Boiled Lollies made it four wins from as many games with a 75-0 victory over the Reddies last week.
He was given his marching orders and charged with punching Brad Crawford, which is a six-week offence under Rugby Australia guidelines.
However he is yet to front the Southern Inland judiciary.
His case was set to be held on Wednesday before being adjourned with only two judiciary panel members available due to illness.
"We can do hearings with two panel members if we need to but as he was intending to plead not guilty it complicates the process," Southern Inland rugby manager Jack Heffernan said.
"The judicial committee and Wagga City representatives agreed to adjourn the hearing until next week."
Herangi can not play until he fronts the judiciary.
He is also on the cusp of an automatic one-week ban after picking up two early cards so far this season. One more triggers a suspension.
It means Wagga City will need a new face in the centres to take on CSU who have been forced to make plenty of changes as well.
Daniel Pocius, Gino Suriani and Jacob Holt will all miss the remainder of the season after sustaining injuries in the heavy loss last week.
Pocius (neck) will be replaced by Dean Smart at hooker, Luke Seruwaqa comes into the forward pack while Trae Little moves to five-eighth
Their third clash with Wagga City was set to be Suriani's last game for the club with Argentina changing their border restrictions due to COVID-19.
Hood wants to put in a better showing.
"We weren't happy with our performance last week and there are a lot of areas we didn't perform well in," he said. "Obviously City are a very good side and have weapons all over the park so we are under no illusions where we sit but just want to get through this game unscathed and get back to some more competitive footy with Waratahs and Tumut."
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