{"id":57494,"date":"2025-08-10T11:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/57494\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T11:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:10:06","slug":"cowboys-trainer-gets-hit-by-ball-in-play-stopped-play-what-happened-cowboys-v-eels-trainergate-rugby-league-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/57494\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys trainer gets hit by ball in play, stopped play, what happened, Cowboys v Eels, trainergate, rugby league news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eight days after arguably one of the most controversial rugby league incidents ever involving a trainer<\/a>, the NRL hi-vis army are in the headlines again.<\/p>\n

Last week, it was a Panthers trainer running in front of a goalkicker. This weekend, a North Queensland trainer accidentally disrupted general play, causing a stoppage. <\/p>\n

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During Sunday night\u2019s Eels-Cowboys clash,<\/a> with the game tied at 18 late in the second half, the Cowboys trainer caused time to be called off by referee Liam Kennedy when he was struck by an errand pass. <\/p>\n

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With the Cowboys deep in their own end, a ball thrown by Cowboys winger Braidon Burns went behind Zac Laybutt and hit the trainer, with Laybutt diving on the ball.<\/p>\n

Eels flyer Josh Addo-Carr was in the area, with Parramatta contesting that Addo-Carr\u2019s chance of potentially diving on the loose pass was thwarted when the ball hit the trainer.<\/p>\n

Kennedy couldn\u2019t do much else but to allow the Cowboys to continue their set where Laybutt dived on the ball and was tackled.<\/p>\n

\u201cBall has hit the trainer. That\u2019s trainergate,\u201d Michael Ennis said.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys trainer was accidentally hit by an errand pass from winger Braidon Burns.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n

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\u201cSeriously, is there any need for the trainer to be out there so early in a set,\u201d Andrew Voss added. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are we doing. Peter V\u2019landys, you have work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incident was discussed post-game on Sunday Night with Matty Johns <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had another one. When it rains it pours,\u201d Johns quipped.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a six to eight weeker,\u201d Nathan Hindmarsh joked, referencing Penrith trainer Corey Bocking\u2019s five-game suspension last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight days after arguably one of the most controversial rugby league incidents ever involving a trainer, the NRL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-57494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57494","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=57494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}