{"id":55163,"date":"2025-08-09T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55163\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:23:08","slug":"four-players-sent-to-sin-bin-before-sydney-roosters-thrash-dolphins-64-12-on-dramatic-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55163\/","title":{"rendered":"Four players sent to sin-bin before Sydney Roosters thrash Dolphins 64-12 on dramatic night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sydney Roosters have thrashed the Dolphins 64-12 and sent a warning to the rest of the NRL after four players were sin-binned in an explosive contest at Suncorp Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>A melee erupted after Roosters flyer Mark Nawaqanitawase scored the second of his three tries in the ninth minute of the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Tricolours\u2019 forward duo Spencer Leniu and Naufahu Whyte were binned, as were Dolphins pair Frank Molo and Aublix Tawha after a fiery clash broke out.<\/p>\n<p>From the ensuing kick-off, Siua Wong was knocked senseless in an accidental head clash.<\/p>\n<p>The late, great Arthur Beetson would have loved the physicality in a showdown that honoured his enormous legacy to both clubs.<\/p>\n<p>The rugby league Immortal won premierships at the Dolphins in 1965, in the Brisbane Rugby League competition, and Roosters in 1974-75.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roosters prop Spencer Leniu at Suncorp Stadium.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2249ac60d14a05a4efc0608d4bef0cd2a41e578b.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Roosters prop Spencer Leniu at Suncorp Stadium.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>He played tough, and he played with flair. The Roosters did both of those things far better to stay in ninth position on 26 points, equal with the eighth-placed Dolphins. The hosts\u2019 for and against is still superior, but it took a battering in their biggest ever loss.<\/p>\n<p>Roosters captain James Tedesco had a blinder and won the Artie Legacy Medal for man of the match, but had plenty of mates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sydney Roosters have thrashed the Dolphins 64-12 and sent a warning to the rest of the NRL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-55163","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\/55163","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=55163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}