{"id":143917,"date":"2025-09-15T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/143917\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T02:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T02:20:09","slug":"nrlw-news-2025-hannah-southwell-belts-sister-jesse-in-dragons-v-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/143917\/","title":{"rendered":"NRLW news 2025, Hannah Southwell belts sister Jesse in Dragons v Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"

NRLW<\/a> star Hannah Southwell is facing a suspension for a brutal late hit on her little sister.<\/p>\n

The St George Illawarra<\/a> forward rushed out of the line to put a shot on younger sibling Jesse<\/a> during Sunday’s game in Wollongong.<\/p>\n

The hit left the younger Southwell on the turf, and earned her Knights a penalty when the game was still scoreless in the 14th minute.<\/p>\n

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When Nine’s commentators realised who had hit her, they couldn’t help but laugh.<\/p>\n

“Jesse Southwell got flattened,” Ruan Sims said.<\/p>\n

\"Jesse<\/p>\n

Jesse Southwell is hit late by her sister Hannah during an NRLW game.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

“Oh, stop it! That is the best.<\/p>\n

“(Dragons coach) Nathan Ross wouldn’t think that is the best, but that is unreal.<\/p>\n

“I knew she would go after her.<\/p>\n

“What do you think the parents are saying right now, well done Hannah or poor Jesse? I think they’re saying ‘good footy’.”<\/p>\n

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Fellow commentator Peter Psaltis joked Jesse “stole her lunch money”, resulting in Hannah putting her on her backside.<\/p>\n

Newcastle won the game 30-22 and are now preparing to face Gold Coast in the first final this Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Dragons did not qualify for finals, so Southwell will have to serve her one-game ban next season.<\/p>\n

The Southwell sisters won premierships at the Knights together before Hannah moved south to join the Dragons this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NRLW star Hannah Southwell is facing a suspension for a brutal late hit on her little sister. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-143917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}