{"id":505593,"date":"2026-02-26T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/505593\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:25:12","slug":"why-are-some-players-so-angry-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/505593\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are some players so angry? \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AFTER watching the opening round of Super League I would suggest that there is a business opportunity awaiting someone who can approach the clubs with an offer to run anger management courses.<\/p>\n

There are at least three players who would be obvious candidates for that sort of tuition \u2013 Mikey Lewis, Harry Newman and Jackson Hastings.<\/p>\n

All three of them are outstanding talents, and yet each of them is far too inclined to be drawn into either fighting or committing ridiculous fouls that result in a yellow card at the very least.<\/p>\n

And in each case it can cost their teams points and even a victory.<\/p>\n

For some reason Lewis seemed to have a bee in his bonnet<\/a> about the York captain Liam Harris on Thursday night and his tripping offence was ridiculous and certainly was a factor that could have cost his Hull KR side the game, given that it was 18-6 when he went off and 18-12 when he came back.<\/p>\n

Leeds\u2019 Newman similarly looked very hot-headed, particularly in relation to Tesi Niu, and while he was off the field Leigh scored a try through Lachlan Lam.<\/p>\n

And St Helens signing Hastings was yellow-carded for a ridiculously late tackle that his experience should tell him will only lead to the dressing room.<\/p>\n

I very much like watching him play but all too often he looks primed for an argument.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll look forward to seeing him play against Jake Connor when Saints play Leeds.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the betting that those two will be yellow-carded together?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFTER watching the opening round of Super League I would suggest that there is a business opportunity awaiting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-505593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505593","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=505593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}