{"id":482475,"date":"2026-02-15T22:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/482475\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T22:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:58:10","slug":"braydon-trindall-shines-in-all-stars-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/482475\/","title":{"rendered":"Braydon Trindall shines in All Stars draw"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indigenous All Stars will wonder what could have been after their star player Braydon Trindall was forced from the field in the final minutes of the 16-16 draw with their Maori counterparts.<\/p>\n

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With halfback Te Maire Martin off the park nursing an ankle injury, Maori hooker Zach Dockar-Clay had the ball in his hands to take a game-winning shot at field goal from 30 metres out on Sunday.<\/p>\n

But as the final seconds ticked down, Indigenous forward Brent Woolf, who has never played an NRL game, charged the ball down to salvage a draw for the Indigenous side in Hamilton.<\/p>\n

James Fisher-Harris of the Maori All Stars makes a run\u00a0Michael Bradley\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

It was the second time the annual clash has ended in a draw along with the 2021 edition, with the trophy staying with holders the Maori All Stars.<\/p>\n

Cronulla five-eighth Trindall was the key man for the Indigenous side and thought he’d put Jayden Campbell over for the game-winning try in the final 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

Trindall stepped inside the defence on the 40-metre line then chipped over the top for Campbell, but replays showed the Gold Coast ace knocked the ball on as he regathered possession.<\/p>\n

Trindall was then denied the chance at any other game-winning play, forced off for a head injury assessment following a collision with Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad in the lead-up to Campbell’s would-be try.<\/p>\n

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Earlier, Trindall dummied left to fool Preston Riki before sending hooker Connor Watson over with a basketball-style chest pass.<\/p>\n

Trindall had the Indigenous side in the lead after the main break with a grubber kick for Josh Addo-Carr, who flattened Keano Kini en route to the tryline.<\/p>\n

Penrith utility Trent Toelau dived over from dummy half at close range to level the scores at 16 apiece with a little less than 30 minutes to play.<\/p>\n

Usually a prop for the Warriors, Maori captain James Fisher-Harris put in a huge shift at lock and had extra ball-playing responsibilities when halfback Martin went down.<\/p>\n

The Warriors’ back-up playmaker hurt his ankle falling awkwardly in an attempted tackle on Addo-Carr and left the field.<\/p>\n

Maori second-rower Briton Nikora risks missing the start of Cronulla’s season after being placed on report for a hip-drop tackle on Oliver Pascoe.<\/p>\n

Nikora has a record, with a grade-two careless high tackle charge from round 23 the worst of five offences last season.<\/p>\n

In unusual scenes, referee Adam Gee was replaced by Belinda Sharpe at three-quarter time after reporting hamstring tightness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indigenous All Stars will wonder what could have been after their star player Braydon Trindall was forced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-482475","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\/482475","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=482475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}