{"id":34751,"date":"2025-07-31T10:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34751\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:53:11","slug":"storm-star-ryan-papenhuzyen-misses-easy-goal-kick-against-parramatta-eels-cameron-smith-reaction-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34751\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm star Ryan Papenhuzyen misses easy goal kick against Parramatta Eels; Cameron Smith reaction, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Papenhuyzen<\/a> was showing a little bit of rust in his return from a calf injury, failing to convert a “straightforward” goal-kick attempt on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old had missed the past month of action for Melbourne<\/a> but was back in his usual fullback role as the premiership favourites travelled to face Parramatta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After a back-and-forth opening 17 minutes, it was the visitors who opened the scoring through Eliesa Katoa as his incredible season on the right edge continued.<\/p>\n

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But despite crossing right next to the posts, Papenhuyzen was unable to convert as the ball hit both uprights and bounced out in a bizarre moment.<\/p>\n

As he was lining up the attempt, lead caller Brenton Speed described the conversion as “straightforward” and said he was kicking at 84 per cent this season.<\/p>\n

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Ryan Papenhuyzen misses a conversion.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

After the fullback – who was returning from a calf injury – missed the goal, Cameron Smith<\/a> took the opportunity to take a cheeky swipe at his Nine broadcast partner.<\/p>\n

“That is as good a commentator’s curse as I’ve ever seen … you got him a beauty,” the Storm legend said through laughter.<\/p>\n

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

Paramatta would soon level the scores through Josh Addo-Carr, who produced a remarkable effort to stay in the field of play and plant the ball down. <\/p>\n

In a tough first half, Cameron Munster was penalised on two occasions for high tackles, while Mitchell Moses also found himself in hot water for a similar incident.<\/p>\n

Melbourne moved ahead on the scoreboard heading into the break after bench prop Tui Kamikamica burst through a wide-open gap in the Eels defensive line.<\/p>\n

Papenhuyzen wouldn’t make the same mistake twice, nailing the two points with ease.<\/p>\n

But right on the stroke of half-time, Papenhuyzen missed a long-range penalty goal as his tough night with the boot continued at CommBank Stadium.<\/p>\n

“We have a bit of a laugh whenever we do something silly,” Munster said to Nine. <\/p>\n

“I just spoke to him about golf handicaps and told him he had 10 points after nine. He’s a back-nine specialist, so hopefully he can get 20 points for us in the back-end.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Papenhuyzen was showing a little bit of rust in his return from a calf injury, failing to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-34751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34751","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=34751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}