{"id":523905,"date":"2026-03-07T04:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523905\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T04:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:09:16","slug":"nrl-news-2026-sydney-roosters-call-out-fans-for-sending-players-death-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523905\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026 | Sydney Roosters call out fans for sending players ‘death threats’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Roosters admonished a section of fans for posting “death threats” towards players on social media following the Roosters<\/a> 42-18<\/a> loss to the Warriors<\/a> at Go Media Stadium.<\/p>\n

It was a scrappy performance by the Tri-Colours in their first game with Daly Cherry-Evans at halfback and fans weren’t shy in expressing their displeasure about his lack of impact.<\/p>\n

Angry fans online called for the return of Hugo Savala, who was dumped from the halves in favour of the former Maroons half.<\/p>\n

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The club warned some supporters that their commentary “will not be tolerated.”<\/p>\n

In the comments section of a score graphic posted by the Roosters’ official Instagram page, the page’s administrator wrote a message in response to several negative comments about the performance from fans.<\/p>\n

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Daly Cherry-Evans playing Friday night.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“While we appreciate the love and the passion that comes with sport we will not tolerate death threats towards our players,” the message wrote.<\/p>\n

“Rugby League is a game that we all love and at the end of the day don’t let it ruin your day. Peace and Love,” the post read.<\/p>\n

It’s understood the NRL is looking into the matter.<\/p>\n

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The message to Roosters supporters.\u00a0Instagram<\/p>\n

After the game Trent Robinson did not hide from the fact his side had misfired on Friday night, but also labelled the lopsided penalty count “incredible”.<\/p>\n

Overall, the Roosters finished with 13 errors and the penalty count was 11-4 to the Warriors at the end of 80 minutes.<\/p>\n

Last season, the Roosters sat first for errors and handling errors in the competition and seventh for penalties conceded.<\/p>\n

And it’s clear discipline is still an issue, Robinson told reporters post-match, however, the officiating also stood out in his mind.<\/p>\n

“Things will go against you,” he said.<\/p>\n

Watch the 2026 NRL season live and free on Nine and 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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James Tedesco and Trent Robinson.\u00a0NRL<\/p>\n

“I think 11-2. The opposition apply a lot of pressure. It depends on the referee about how they determine those and 11-2 is quite incredible in our game.<\/p>\n

“Then we had video ref decisions and all of that. But as I go back to, depending on what team you want to be, is how much of a swing against you do you let in that many points for us?<\/p>\n

“And I’m okay. I think we’ll execute the attack. I’m not worried about missing that execution.<\/p>\n

“It would have been nice to get that back. But we want to be a team that you can have 11-2 against.<\/p>\n

“You can have decisions go against you, and then you can put your gloves up and say, it’s cool.<\/p>\n

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James Tedesco speaks to referee Wyatt Raymond. \u00a0NRL Imagery<\/p>\n

“We might be a few points down, but we can hold on to that no matter how far it swings. Round 1 we’re not able to do that. Round two. We’ll see.”<\/p>\n

In addition to the penalty count, Roosters skipper James Tedesco expressed disappointment over his side’s defence late.<\/p>\n

“I mean, we had a lot of calls against, with the penalty count and a couple of tries, and then a couple of their tries as well, so it was disappointing,” Tedesco said.<\/p>\n

“But we still let in that many points and we can’t be doing that, so that’s disappointing, especially that last 10 minutes to let in a couple of tries, when we were sort of fighting our way back and giving ourselves a chance.<\/p>\n

“We had a couple of opportunities we didn’t execute, and then I thought it wasn’t a great end performance.<\/p>\n

“I feel like there was some positives throughout the game in patches, but it’s disappointing to put all that work in pre-season and come over and let in that many points.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Roosters admonished a section of fans for posting “death threats” towards players on social media following the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-523905","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\/523905","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=523905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}