Anthony Albanese smiled his way through thousands of NRL fans on the field on Friday night after Alex Johnston made history and broke the game\u2019s all-time try scoring record against the Sydney Roosters.<\/p>\n
The Rabbitohs winger scored try 213 in front of a huge crowd that went on to storm the Allianz Stadium pitch.<\/p>\n
No fines were given out despite numerous warnings, with two men arrested for clashing with security.<\/p>\n
Johnston equalled the record in the first half which lifted excitement and anticipation for what could come next.<\/p>\n
Minutes into the second half, he found some space and sprinted down the sideline, going on to slide over and score.<\/p>\n
The floodgates opened as thousands stormed the field, with a Roosters fan ironically being the first to jump on top and celebrate with Souths players.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister didn\u2019t seem too worried about the threat of a fine or ban, as he got amongst the action and proudly marched down the field with his scarf on, surrounded by security.<\/p>\n
However, the sight of Mr Albanese being on the field wasn\u2019t well received by some viewers.<\/p>\n
AFL great Dane Swan wrote on X: \u201cIf our prime minister couldn\u2019t get any cornier now, he is on the field after Johnston scored the record breaking try, he\u2019s laugh out loud embarrassing. Scram.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJust how low can the Australian PM Albanese go? Alex Johnston breaks the all-time try scoring record in the NRL & our clown PM walks onto the field waving his scarf – not to congratulate Alex but to say look at me,\u201d another added.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo fine for being on the field?\u201d a third questioned.<\/p>\n
Throughout the game, a warning was displayed on the screen which read: “Do not enter the field of play. You will be arrested, charged, fined $5500 and banned for 24 months”.<\/p>\n
The Australian leader then presented Johnston the match ball before taking to social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cHistory tonight as Alex Johnson became Rugby League\u2019s greatest try scorer of all time,\u201d Mr Albanese said.<\/p>\n
Former NRL premiership winner Cooper Cronk said Johnston\u2019s try-scoring moment will be remembered forever.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will be the greatest moment in our game\u2019s history for a long period of time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe scenes are unbelievable. This will be replayed for years and years. Congratulations to Alex Johnston.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the jubilation for Souths fans, the Roosters went on to spoil the party, winning 26-18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Albanese smiled his way through thousands of NRL fans on the field on Friday night after Alex…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[4558,2324,64,63,761,762,158,1654,9120,159,85],"class_list":["post-539144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-alex-johnston","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-rabbitohs","tag-roosters","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539144","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=539144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}