Bans for All Blacks duo

New Zealand assistant coach Steve Hansen had no argument with the one-match bans handed out to prop Tony Woodcock and wing Sitiveni Sivivatu following Saturday's 32-19 victory against Australia in Tokyo.

Hansen accompanied the pair to the judicial hearing where judicial officer Peter Hobbs, of Wellington, found Woodcock guilty of striking George Smith with his elbow in the final minute of the contest and Sivivatu guilty of a dangerous mid-air tackle on Adam Ashley-Cooper which also earned the winger a 10-minute spell in the sinbin at the National Stadium.