{"id":551966,"date":"2026-03-20T03:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551966\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T03:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:37:09","slug":"raiders-star-faces-ban-after-loss-to-bulldogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551966\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders star faces ban after loss to Bulldogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Josh Papali’i’s stop-start beginning to 2026 is set to continue with the Canberra veteran facing a one-match ban for his high shot on Samuel Hughes.<\/p>\n

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After being sin-binned in the first half of the Raiders’ 14-10 loss to Canterbury on Thursday night, Papali’i was hit with a grade-two high tackle charge on Friday.<\/p>\n

Unless he successfully beats the ban at the NRL judiciary, the Raiders prop will miss Canberra’s clash with Cronulla next Sunday.<\/p>\n

If the 33-year-old does attempt to fight it and lose, he would then spend a second week on the sidelines.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs’ defence swarms around Josh Papalii of the Raiders.\u00a0Mark Nolan\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Papali’i played just 19 minutes in Canberra’s season opener against Manly, before suffering a concussion.<\/p>\n

He subsequently missed the Raiders’ round-two loss to the Warriors, before returning on Thursday night against the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n

The news was better for Raiders captain Joseph Tapine on Friday, with the fellow starting prop avoiding a ban for his contact on Bulldog Harry Hayes.<\/p>\n

Tapine was handed a grade-one charge, meaning he can escape with a $1000 fine.<\/p>\n

Canterbury playmaker Lachlan Galvin can also take a $1000 fine, after being cited for a hip-drop tackle on Canberra second-rower Hudson Young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Papali’i’s stop-start beginning to 2026 is set to continue with the Canberra veteran facing a one-match ban…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-551966","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\/551966","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=551966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}