Sydney Roosters teen Aliyah Nasio will miss the start of the NRLW season after copping a four match ban for punching Brisbane star Julia Robinson in an ugly end to the women\u2019s grand final. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s the equal longest ban handed to an NRLW player yet, alongside the four-match ban handed to Eels forward Kennedy Cherrington for a spear tackle in 2023. <\/p>\n
On Tuesday night the 19-year-old pleaded guilty to striking but failed to downgrade the charge from a grade three despite arguing she was retaliating in fear while surrounded by seven Broncos players as the fulltime siren sounded in the NRLW grand final.<\/p>\n
One included Robinson, who had her nose broken and suffered a deviated septum which will require surgery in December, according to a report submitted by a Broncos doctor. <\/p>\n
The Jillaroos star was punched twice in the face after a scuffle between Nasio and Broncos five eighth Gayle Broughton, who grabbed the Roosters forward and instigated the melee. <\/p>\n
The chaotic scenes marred the end of the best NRLW grand final to date, which finished with Brisbane winning 22-18 over last year\u2019s premiers.<\/p>\n
Nasio declined to give evidence or speak on Tuesday night but submitted a letter of apology, as well as a letter from the Roosters\u2019 senior wellbeing manager to be considered when deliberating the penalty. <\/p>\n
Within the evidence, Nasio claimed she had suffered personally because of comment online and also in reflection of her actions.<\/p>\n
Nasio, who is regarded as one of the game\u2019s best young players, will miss at least one game for Tonga as well as the start of the NRLW season next year. <\/p>\n
She was named in the Tongan squad for the Pacific Championships and will miss their first game against the Cook Islands in Papua New Guinea on October 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Roosters teen Aliyah Nasio will miss the start of the NRLW season after copping a four match…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,689,4428,30195,131002,19307,131008,44385,131007,131006,129107,2105,11288,131003,120943,27296,673,677,27284,131005,130967,130968,85,670,1080,131004],"class_list":["post-213630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-brisbane-broncos","tag-cameron-spencer","tag-chaotic-scenes","tag-cook-islands","tag-deviated-septum","tag-four-match-ban","tag-four-match-suspension","tag-fulltime-siren","tag-gayle-broughton","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-grand-final","tag-grand-final-brawl","tag-julia-robinson","tag-melanesia","tag-new-south-wales","tag-oceania","tag-papua-new-guinea","tag-roosters-teen","tag-senior-wellbeing-manager","tag-spear-tackle","tag-sports","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-roosters","tag-ugly-end"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213630","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=213630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}