{"id":606654,"date":"2026-04-14T17:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/606654\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:14:18","slug":"nrl-news-2026-will-penisini-judiciary-hearing-high-shot-on-beau-fermor-eels-vs-titans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/606654\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026 | Will Penisini judiciary hearing; high shot on Beau Fermor; Eels vs Titans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/parramatta-eels\" class=\"sc-bdxVF blCPBU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eels<\/a> centre Will Penisini has had a successful night at the NRL judiciary after he was found not guilty of a grade one careless high tackle.<\/p>\n<p>Penisini was hit with a $1800 fine from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/live-scores\/parramatta-eels-v-gold-coast-titans-nrl-2026\/451700800\" class=\"sc-bdxVF blCPBU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eels clash with the Titans<\/a> but made the rare move to appeal that decision.<\/p>\n<p>If found guilty at the judiciary, he risked a $2500 fine.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/sport\/motorsport\/f1-news-2026-oscar-piastri-max-verstappen-potential-team-swap-red-bull-mclaren-ralf-schumacher-comments-20260414-p5znqy.html\" class=\"sc-bdxVF blCPBU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ace up the sleeve&#8217; as Piastri-Verstappen swap floated<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/sport\/rugby\/news-2026-wallaroos-evacuated-tornado-warning-usa-20260414-p5znu3.html\" class=\"sc-bdxVF blCPBU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Active tornados&#8217; in USA force Wallaroos to evacuate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/sport\/cricket\/news-2026-shane-warne-death-son-jackson-interview-covid-vaccine-health-issues-20260414-p5znms.html\" class=\"sc-bdxVF blCPBU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warne&#8217;s son claims COVID jab &#8216;definitely involved&#8217; in death<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The incident came in the 12th minute of <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/news-2026-brad-fittler-comments-parramatta-eels-fans-boo-gold-coast-titans-loss-20260413-p5znel.html\" class=\"sc-bdxVF blCPBU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Parramatta&#8217;s shocking loss against the Gold Coast<\/a> when Penisini was judged to have hit Beau Fermor high.<\/p>\n<p>Fermor was tackled low by Mitch Moses with Penisini going high before he was penalised for high contact.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f5f90dd2d059aa34c161b2b0ff015b71637376ce.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Will Penisini tackles Beau Fermor. \u00a0Fox League<\/p>\n<p>The centre was not impressed with the decision and there was limited reaction on commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Penisini was the only charge to come from that match despite <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/news-2026-jayden-campbell-hip-drop-tackle-parramatta-eels-vs-gold-coast-titans-result-video-highlights-20260412-p5zn9k.html\" class=\"sc-bdxVF blCPBU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jayden Campbell being placed on report for dangerous contact<\/a>. Campbell&#8217;s tackle wasn&#8217;t deemed dangerous enough for a fine by the match review committee.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the 2026 NRL season live and free on Nine and <a href=\"https:\/\/stream.9now.com.au\/IhJRsjCw00b\" class=\"sc-bdxVF blCPBU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There were nine players charged by the match review committee for a careless high tackle over round six.<\/p>\n<p>Casey McLean and Patrick Carrigan both copped bans while Trent Loiero had the biggest fine of $3000 for his third offence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eels centre Will Penisini has had a successful night at the NRL judiciary after he was found not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-606654","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\/606654","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=606654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}