The NRL’s match review committee have dished out just a single charge from Saturday’s pre-season challenge action, despite four players being placed on report by on-field officials during the course of the four-game slate.<\/p>\n
Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> prop Josh Curran<\/a> is the only player facing a sanction from the MRC after being pinged for dangerous contact on Newcastle Knights<\/a> second-rower Jermaine McEwen<\/a> in the 46th minute of their game in Newcastle.<\/p>\n The Bulldogs, who won the fixture to nil, will not be without Curran in Las Vegas where they will clash with the St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> though, given Curran has only been slapped with a Grade 1 charge.<\/p>\n It’s the forwards second charge on his rolling 12-month record, meaning he will pay $1800 with an early guilty plea, or $2500 if he fights and loses at the judiciary.<\/p>\n The other players placed on report throughout the course of Saturday were Curran’s Bulldogs’ teammate Jaeman Salmon<\/a>, young Wests Tigers<\/a> outside back Heamasi Makasini<\/a>, and South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a> prop Sean Keppie<\/a>.<\/p>\n Makasini was reported for a late tackle, Salmon for a high tackle, and Keppie for a high tackle, however, the trio have all avoided charges from the MRC.<\/p>\n Curran will have until midday (AEDT) on Monday to determine whether he will accept the early guilty plea or fight at the judiciary.<\/p>\n Get set for the footy with the FREE Zero Tackle 2026 NRL Season Guide!<\/a> Packed with 130+ pages of player profiles, team previews, insights and analysis, the 2026 NRL Season Guide<\/a> is built for fans who want the full picture. Download your free Season Guide HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NRL’s match review committee have dished out just a single charge from Saturday’s pre-season challenge action, despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-480504","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\/480504","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=480504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}