{"id":62376,"date":"2025-08-12T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/62376\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:11:07","slug":"mixed-results-at-nrl-judiciary-for-bulldogs-forwards-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/62376\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed results at NRL judiciary for Bulldogs forwards – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NRL<\/a> judiciary have confirmed verdicts for Harry Hayes<\/a> and Samuel Hughes<\/a> after the two Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> forwards faced the panel on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

Both players elected to contest their high shots over the weekend, despite both only being fines.<\/p>\n

Hughes has been found guilty of a Grade 1 careless high tackle for a first minute shot on Dallin Watene-Zelezniak<\/a> during the club’s win in the heavy rain over the New Zealand<\/a> Warriors on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The tackle would have seen him pay only $1000 with an early guilty plea, but the verdict being returned as guilty means he will pay $1500.<\/p>\n

It’s a first offence on his record, but it does leave him more vulnerable for the next 12 months of tougher sanctions for any further slip ups.<\/p>\n

Hayes, on the other hand, was charged for a high shot on opposition forward Demitric Vaimauga<\/a> after halftime in the game.<\/p>\n

He has been found not guilty of the offence, and will maintain a clean record at the judiciary instead with no fine to pay or sanction to face.<\/p>\n

It means that, at the end of Round 23, only Cronulla Sharks<\/a> forward Briton Nikora<\/a> (three matches, high tackle), Dolphins<\/a> prop Francis Molo<\/a> (one match, high tackle) and North Queensland Cowboys<\/a> veteran Coen Hess<\/a> (three matches, dangerous contact) have been suspended.<\/p>\n

Nikora and Hess will both miss the remainder of the regular season which has four weeks to go, with both of their teams having a bye before the end of the campaign.<\/p>\n

Another ten players including Hughes have been fined for offences committed over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NRL judiciary have confirmed verdicts for Harry Hayes and Samuel Hughes after the two Canterbury Bulldogs forwards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-62376","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\/62376","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=62376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}