{"id":481928,"date":"2026-02-15T16:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/481928\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T16:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:46:15","slug":"nrl-pre-season-challenge-2026-jordan-samrani-fight-with-xavier-cacciotti-parramatta-eels-vs-cronulla-sharks-result-video-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/481928\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL pre-season challenge 2026 | Jordan Samrani fight with Xavier Cacciotti; Parramatta Eels vs Cronulla Sharks result, video, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eels<\/a> centre Jordan Samrani exploded in a trial match brain explosion against the Sharks<\/a>, conceding a penalty after chasing rival Xavier Cacciotti.<\/p>\n

The Sharks rookie had put Samrani on his back after the ball was gone during a tackle near the Eels’ line.<\/p>\n

As the set continued on, Samrani chased after Cacciotti and tried to man handle him.<\/p>\n

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Xavier Cacciotti and Jordan Samrani clash. \u00a0Fox League<\/p>\n

“You don’t do that when you’re bringing the football out of your own end,” Greg Alexander said on Fox League.<\/p>\n

“You don’t go chasing a defender.”<\/p>\n

The Eels were then penalised for the incident but it didn’t appear a punch was thrown. <\/p>\n

“How do you reckon Jason Ryles<\/a> feels about that? He lost the plot,” Alexander said.<\/p>\n

Luckily for Samrani, the Sharks then knocked the ball on in the next play. <\/p>\n

While Ryles wouldn’t have been too pleased with that incident, the score was a major positive as the match finished 40-6 in his side’s favour.<\/p>\n

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Ryley Smith celebrates a try.\u00a0NRL Imagery<\/p>\n

A fast start was the key to the result Bailey Simonsson, Ryley Smith, Sean Russell and Teancum Brown all scoring in the first half.<\/p>\n

The Eels led 22-6 at the break after Cronulla’s Samuel McCulloch scored right before half-time.<\/p>\n

Samrani was first to score in the second half before his brain explosion. Apa Twindle also crossed for a double to seal the emphatic result. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eels centre Jordan Samrani exploded in a trial match brain explosion against the Sharks, conceding a penalty after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-481928","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\/481928","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=481928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}