{"id":55073,"date":"2025-08-09T09:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55073\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T09:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:31:06","slug":"roosters-and-dolphins-all-in-brawl-spencer-leniu-four-sin-bins-what-happened-fight-rugby-league-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55073\/","title":{"rendered":"Roosters and Dolphins all in brawl, Spencer Leniu, four sin bins, what happened, fight, rugby league news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A powder keg of emotions exploded on Suncorp Stadium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/finals-race-heats-up-as-dolphins-host-roosters-for-crucial-clash-nrl-live\/news-story\/c0be3169b1e22da4560fdf543a3b4fcd\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">during the Dolphins-Roosters clash<\/a>, with a fiery all in brawl resulting in the sin bin of four players and a ten minute game of 11-on-11.<\/p>\n<p>Roosters firebrand Spencer Leniu was in the thick of it, shockingly squaring up to his Dolphins opponents after a Mark Naqaqanitawase try.<\/p>\n<p>FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every game of every round in the 2025 NRL Telstra Premiership, LIVE with no ad-breaks during play. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1 &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous behaviour from Spencer Leniu,\u201d said Warren Smith on Fox League.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT&#8217;S GAMBLING REALLY COSTING YOU? Set a deposit limit. For Free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.<\/p>\n<p>Leniu, Roosters teammate Naufahu Whyte, and Dolphins duo Aublix Tawha and Francis Molo were all sin-binned for their part in the scrap.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Leniu sparked a WILD fracas against the Dolphins.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n<p>It came just two minutes after both clubs were warned for coming together when Leniu injected himself into another scrap, running 15 metres to make a point against Kurt Donoghue and Tawha.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no question, we spoke a minute ago,\u201d said referee Gerard Sutton.<\/p>\n<p>Leniu squared up with Tawha which caused players to come from everywhere, notably Whyte, who dragged Tawha to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Molo was binned when he took umbrage to Whyte\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can you explain the behaviour of Spencer Leniu. What is Tahwa supposed to do and then Naufahu Whyte comes and grabs him,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>The drama didn\u2019t end there as the Roosters lost Siua Wong from the ensuing kick-off, knocked out after coming off second best from a massive hit from Donoghue. <\/p>\n<p>Raiders run riot to sink Sea Eagles | 01:52<\/p>\n<p>Wong would soon be ruled out for the game because of a category 1 HIA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is old school,\u201d Smith added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are scenes you do not see in the modern game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ten minute period didn\u2019t favour either side with one try scored apiece during that frenetic passage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A powder keg of emotions exploded on Suncorp Stadium during the Dolphins-Roosters clash, with a fiery all in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,763,28067,32115,45627,45626,45628,45624,45625,760,45629,28060,85,28816,34148],"class_list":["post-55073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fox-league","tag-francis-molo","tag-gerard-sutton","tag-minute-game","tag-naufahu-whyte","tag-powder-keg","tag-ridiculous-behaviour","tag-roosters-firebrand","tag-rugby","tag-sin-bins","tag-siua-wong","tag-sports","tag-try-scored","tag-warren-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55073","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=55073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}