{"id":57430,"date":"2025-08-10T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/57430\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:24:08","slug":"parramatta-eels-v-north-queensland-cowboys-result-highlights-play-of-the-ball-bunker-review-ruan-sims-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/57430\/","title":{"rendered":"Parramatta Eels v North Queensland Cowboys result, highlights, play of the ball Bunker review, Ruan Sims comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruan Sims<\/a> has questioned the consistency of the NRLW’s officiating after a ruck interference ruling by the Bunker turned the Eels<\/a>–Cowboys<\/a> clash on its head.<\/p>\n

Scores were level in the 53rd minute when Krystal Blackwell made a run through the middle and appeared to lose her grip while attempting to play the ball.<\/p>\n

Referee Ziggy Przelklasa-Adamski ruled Blackwell had lost the ball when coming forward off the mark, a decision which did not sit lightly with the winger.<\/p>\n

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“Oh, they don’t want that,” Brad Fittler said on Nine as the error was made.<\/p>\n

\"Krystal<\/p>\n

Krystal Blackwell is pinged for an incorrect play of the ball.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

Blackwell was confident the error had not been made without interference of surrounding Eels defenders and Cowboys captain Kirra Dibb called for a review.<\/p>\n

But Sims feared the wrong call had been made by the Cowboys to review.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think she is going to win this because she didn’t have control of her own body,” she said.<\/p>\n

“She is fighting for a quick play of the ball.”<\/p>\n

Senior review official Matt Noyen then revealed the challenge was successful as Blackwell had played the ball at a normal speed and been subject to ruck interference.<\/p>\n

“That will do me. I’m putting the mic down,” the Jillaroos great said.<\/p>\n

\"Krystal<\/p>\n

Krystal Blackwell is pinged for an incorrect play of the ball.\u00a0Nine \/ instagram<\/p>\n

“We’ve seen in the previous two games today very similar things be adjudicated completely differently.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think she is under her own steam there. I think she plants the football before she gets up. She gets away with it, well done.”<\/p>\n

Using the penalty to their advantage, the Cowboys stormed down the field to set up Francesca Goldthorpe for her second try of the evening in the corner.<\/p>\n

The sensational attacking display also saw the Cowboys surge into the lead at 14-10.<\/p>\n

Watch the 2025 NRLW premiership live and free on Nine and 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Parramatta’s defence continued to be put to the test over the final 10 minutes, with Elise Alberts landing a brutal warning shot on Lily Peacock.<\/p>\n

“Oh, I would be counting my ribs after that,” Sims said of the tackle in awe.<\/p>\n

“You could hear that (hit) from up here,” Andrew Johns declared.<\/p>\n

“That really ruffled the feathers of Peacock.”<\/p>\n

“Well done for Peacock for getting to her feet after that,” added Sims.<\/p>\n

Still, it was not enough to turn the result back in their favour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruan Sims has questioned the consistency of the NRLW’s officiating after a ruck interference ruling by the Bunker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-57430","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\/57430","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=57430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}