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<\/a><\/p>\nAlready without Reece Walsh and Ben Hunt through injury, the Broncos suffered further bad news on Saturday when Carrigan was hit with a grade-two charge by the match review committee.<\/p>\n
And making matters worse for the Broncos, hooker Blake Mozer suffered a broken jaw in Friday night’s loss to North Queensland and will miss six weeks.<\/p>\n
Carrigan can challenge his suspension, but will risk a third match on the sideline if he loses at the judiciary.<\/p>\n
The star Brisbane lock had attempted to play down the severity of the tackle after Friday night’s 35-31 loss to North Queensland, claiming it was only a chest tackle.<\/p>\n
His coach agreed.<\/p>\n
“It was chest,” Michael Maguire said. “That’s how I saw it. It is interesting because I thought it was a really good chest tackle.”<\/p>\n
The coach added the side “really dug in for each other” despite not getting the result they wanted amid “a fair bit of carnage”.<\/p>\n
Brisbane face Wests Tigers and Canterbury in the next fortnight.<\/p>\n
Brisbane’s personnel crisis has taken another hit with Pat Carrigan facing a two-match ban for a high tackle on Tom Chester.\u00a0Albert Perez\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
The defending premiers were also without halfback Adam Reynolds on Friday night, with his groin injury considered a week-by-week prospect.<\/p>\n
Brisbane will try to have the category-one concussion of hooker Cory Paix overturned given their injury crisis.<\/p>\n
The Paix ruling in the 45th minute of the clash had Maguire perplexed ahead of next Saturday’s clash at Wests Tigers.<\/p>\n
The category one for Paix meant he automatically misses the Tigers clash and couldn’t come back on the field against the Cowboys.<\/p>\n
Mozer, playing off the bench in his first NRL match since 2024, broke his jaw while trying to tackle Cowboys wrecking ball Jason Taumalolo.<\/p>\n
“That is something we are going to have to review,” Maguire said of the Paix ruling.<\/p>\n
“Blakey was a cat-one and gets given a cat-two. Paixy ran off, passed the test and got a cat-one. I don’t quite get that.<\/p>\n
“I think Paixy will be fine for next week. He was ready to run back out. That is a call made externally so I will go through the right channels with the doctors and review that one. Talking to Paixy, he can’t believe it himself.<\/p>\n
“Then on the flip side, you have got Mozer with a jaw potentially broken.”<\/p>\n
Doctors assessed Mozer in the dressing room after the match.<\/p>\n
“It a real shame,” Maguire said.<\/p>\n
“He has worked really hard and I thought he was going really good out there. We were all excited for him.”<\/p>\n
With other roster hookers Hunt and Billy Walters injured, the Broncos may turn to 20-year-old Cameron Bukowski, a highly rated No.9 who has a development contract.<\/p>\n
“I’ve had a good conversation with a few of the boys and we think he is ready,” Maguire said.<\/p>\n
“Cam has been battling away, fighting and working hard in the background. An opportunity might be around the corner.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane’s personnel crisis has taken another hit with Pat Carrigan facing a two-match ban for a high tackle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-599330","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\/599330","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=599330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}