{"id":196150,"date":"2025-10-07T21:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/196150\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T21:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:51:10","slug":"hull-kr-successfully-appeals-jared-waerea-hargreaves-suspension-high-shot-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/196150\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull KR successfully appeals Jared Waerea-Hargreaves suspension, high shot, video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hull KR has successfully appealed a controversial charge that threatened to rub Jared Waerea-Hargreaves out of the Super League grand final, ensuring the legendary former Sydney Roosters star a career swan song.<\/p>\n<p>Kayo Sports is the home of The 2025 Betfred Super League in Australia | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkleague-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-nrl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Waerea-Hargreaves confirmed in April that he would be retiring at the end of the season, meaning Sunday morning\u2019s (4am AEDT) decider was going to be the final game of his career.<\/p>\n<p>But after being hit with a three-game ban by the Rugby Football League for a Grade C head offence in Hull KR\u2019s semi-final win over St Helens, it looked his career was already over.<\/p>\n<p>Pacific Champs teams unveiled | 02:30<\/p>\n<p>Even a lower \u2018Grade A\u2019 charge for the tackle on St Helens winger Jon Bennison would have resulted in a suspension because of Waerea-Hargreaves\u2019 previous disciplinary record.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759535888_361_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It means he needed the charges dropped completely, with the appeal tribunal ultimately clearing the 26-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJared Waerea-Hargreaves of Hull KR has successfully challenged a Grade C charge of head contact arising from Saturday\u2019s Betfred Super League semi-final against St Helens, which would have led to a three-match suspension,\u201d Hull KR said in a statement .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe RFL\u2019s independent operational rules tribunal upheld the player\u2019s not guilty plea. He is therefore free to play in Saturday\u2019s Grand Final.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waerea-Hargreaves joined Hull KR on a one-year deal after 14 seasons with the Roosters, playing 18 games for the Robins in the Super League while helping them to the Challenge Cup and League Leaders\u2019 Shield.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran Australian rugby league journalist Phil Rothfield was among those who criticsed the inital charge against Waerea-Hargreaves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m disgusted by that decision, I really am,\u201d Rothfield told Triple M on Tuesday. \u201cIt\u2019d flat out being a penalty in the NRL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know this guy\u2019s got history and a long, long list of indiscretions on the field, but that was barely a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should be ashamed of themselves, the Super League match review. He wouldn\u2019t have knocked me out!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hull KR has successfully appealed a controversial charge that threatened to rub Jared Waerea-Hargreaves out of the Super&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-196150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196150","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=196150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}