{"id":627292,"date":"2026-04-24T06:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627292\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:16:11","slug":"tom-starling-exposes-social-media-troll-after-scuffle-with-sunia-turuva-canberra-raiders-vs-wests-tigers-round-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627292\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Starling exposes social media troll after scuffle with Sunia Turuva, Canberra Raiders vs Wests Tigers, Round 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"standfirst-content\">Raiders star Tom Starling has called out an ugly rant from a social media troll that included abuse aimed at his partner after his scuffle with Tigers flyer Sunia Turuva.<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of the Tigers\u2019 33-14 win at Leichhardt oval, Starling and Turuva were caught in a heated moment and had to be separated by teammates, but the pair left it on the field. <\/p>\n<p>Watch every game of every round of the Premiership Season LIVE with no ad-breaks during play on FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports | <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/en-AU\/welcome\/nrl?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkleague-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-nrl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776909012_441_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>However, Starling and his partner were subjected to disgusting abuse from a social media user, who launched an ugly attack on the Raiders star\u2019s Instagram account. <\/p>\n<p>Starling published the ugly comments on his Instagram story calling out the vile behaviour. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSay what you want about the players, leave women out of it, don\u2019t be this guy,\u201d Starling wrote on his Instagram story. <\/p>\n<p>Tom Starling took to social media to call out a troll.Source: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>MORE NRL NEWS<\/p>\n<p>\u2018SHOCK\u2019: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/nrl-2026-how-tom-jenkins-went-from-newcastle-knights-to-incredile-penrith-panthers-history-tryscoring-record-background\/news-story\/ff7d794bf1579b07b76ce263559cbaa1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Phone call and Vegas sacrifice: Inside \u2018crazy\u2019 rise from scrapheap to history<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MCKINNON: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/nrl-2026-why-dean-young-is-the-right-man-as-dragons-coach-scott-drinkwater-contract-offer-shane-flanagan-sacked\/news-story\/afd190ce4c4cbdeb5b99d450ed83b3fb\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Telling Wayne hint in Dragons mess&#8230; why $900k blunder could backfire<\/a><\/p>\n<p>965-DAY COMEBACK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/nrl-2026-brisbane-broncos-35m-injury-crisis-hayze-perham-cameron-bukowski-preston-riki-vaa-semu-round-8-vs-bulldogs\/news-story\/edd43587629461550cedf381fa7a03a3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The two-word mantra behind Broncos\u2019 $3.5 million crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom Starling and Sunia Turuva were involved in a scuffle.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest NRL news, highlights and analysis delivered straight to your inbox with Fox Sports Sportmail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/newsletter-sign-up?utm_source=NRLArticle&amp;utm_medium=TextLink&amp;utm_campaign=signup\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raiders star Tom Starling has called out an ugly rant from a social media troll that included abuse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4532,763,43,304056,304057,44,1314,304058,213730,304053,304054,41,39,42,40,304055,4515],"class_list":["post-627292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-canberra-raiders","tag-fox-league","tag-headlines","tag-included-women","tag-leave-women","tag-news","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-troll","tag-social-media-user","tag-starling-comments","tag-story-calling","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-ugly-rant","tag-wests-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627292","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=627292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}