{"id":597140,"date":"2026-04-10T04:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/597140\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T04:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:24:08","slug":"penrith-panthers-player-casey-mclean-faces-suspension-for-high-tackle-in-loss-to-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/597140\/","title":{"rendered":"Penrith Panthers player Casey McLean faces suspension for high tackle in loss to Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Penrith centre Casey McLean is facing a one-week suspension for a high shot that left Canterbury prop Max King with a broken jaw.<\/p>\n

McLean was sent to the sin-bin in the first half of the Bulldogs’ 32-16 win on Thursday and was hit with a grade-two careless high tackle charge on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

McLean was sin-binned retroactively, with referee Gerard Sutton stopping play and sending the Panthers youngster for a 10-minute cool-off several plays later.<\/p>\n

“My initial thoughts were based around the pub test where none of the players see it or feel it,” said Penrith coach Ivan Cleary.<\/p>\n

“It might have been shoulder then head and a bit of whiplash \u2026 there’s not much vision so it’s hard to say.”<\/p>\n

Cleary is now likely to be without 19-year-old McLean for the Panthers’ trip to Darwin to face the Dolphins next week.<\/p>\n

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If McLean accepts the suspension with an early guilty plea, he will miss a week. He risks a further match on the sidelines if he fights and loses his case at the NRL judiciary.<\/p>\n

Any hopes of an appeal will no doubt diminish with news of King’s broken jaw.<\/p>\n

The reliable Canterbury prop is set to head for surgery due to McLean’s hit just when the Bulldogs had looked to have turned a corner.<\/p>\n

Canterbury utility Kurt Mann was also charged with a high shot on Scott Sorensen but will escape with a $1,000 fine.<\/p>\n

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