{"id":175418,"date":"2025-09-28T15:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175418\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:14:10","slug":"liam-martin-very-lucky-to-avoid-sin-bin-after-fight-with-ezra-mam-broncos-vs-panthers-preliminary-final-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175418\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Martin ‘very lucky’ to avoid sin bin after fight with Ezra Mam; Broncos vs Panthers preliminary final, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Panthers<\/a> enforcer Liam Martin found himself “very lucky” not to be sin binned during Sunday’s preliminary final against the Broncos<\/a> after sparking a melee.<\/p>\n

In the second half of the tense clash at Suncorp Stadium, tempers started to flare when Ezra Mam tackled star halfback Nathan Cleary as he kicked the ball.<\/p>\n

The tackle was deemed legal by on-field referee Grant Atkins, who allowed play to continue as the hosts worked their way out of trouble.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: ‘He’s gone’: Panthers cop blow two minutes into prelim<\/a><\/p>\n

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READ MORE: ‘Original giants’ cruise into grand final with clinical win<\/a><\/p>\n

But as the kick return was unfolding, Mam and Cleary were getting stuck into each other on the floor before Martin raced in to protect his halfback.<\/p>\n

The back-rower ran 20 metres and there was a hint of a swinging arm on Mam.<\/p>\n

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Liam Martin and Ezra Mam involved in a melee\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

“Liam Martin has run 30 metres, this may be a sin bin,” Andrew Johns said on Nine.<\/p>\n

“Ezra Mam tackles Nathan Cleary as he kicks, all legal – that’s fair game.<\/p>\n

“Liam Martin comes in with a swinging arm and that’s his job, to protect his halfback.”<\/p>\n

Watch the 2025 NRL premiership live and free on Nine and 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After a quick look from the Bunker, it was deemed that a penalty against Penrith would be sufficient and Martin was allowed to stay on the field. <\/p>\n

“That’s a swinging arm, I think he’s very lucky there,” Johns continued.<\/p>\n

“Third man in and a swinging arm to the head.”<\/p>\n

At the time, the Panthers led 14-6 in the grand final qualifier but ended up losing 16-14 as the Broncos booked a spot in the big dance. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Panthers enforcer Liam Martin found himself “very lucky” not to be sin binned during Sunday’s preliminary final against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-175418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175418","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=175418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}