{"id":627705,"date":"2026-04-24T10:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627705\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:52:15","slug":"nrl-news-2026-siosifa-talakai-on-report-murray-taulagi-knockout-north-queensland-cowboys-vs-cronulla-sharks-result-video-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627705\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026 | Siosifa Talakai on report, Murray Taulagi knockout; North Queensland Cowboys vs Cronulla Sharks result, video, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sharks<\/a> centre Siosifa Talakai will await his fate with the match review committee after he was placed on report for a knee lift that knocked out Murray Taulagi.<\/p>\n

With 10 minutes to go between the Cowboys<\/a> and Sharks in Townsville<\/a>, Taulagi tried to jam in from the wing as Cronulla shifted the ball deep into territory.<\/p>\n

Talakai was in the air as Taulagi tried to tackle him, and the latter dropped to the ground immediately after copping a knee to the head.<\/p>\n

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No penalty was given with play continuing until the final tackle with Taulagi still in the dazed in back play.<\/p>\n

Eventually Taulagi, who looked unaware of where he was, had to go off for an HIA which followed Talakai being placed on report. <\/p>\n

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Siosifa Talakai’s raised knee knocked out Murray Taulagi. \u00a0Fox League<\/p>\n

Mick Ennis didn’t think the Sharks star’s act was on purpose.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think there was any malice in it, he was just coming down and bracing. But it certainly was raised,” he said on Fox League.<\/p>\n

In a high-scoring match, the Cowboys were leading 36-28 at the time. Taulagi had scored a hat-trick by that point which included a show me the money celebration after one.<\/p>\n

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Taulagi is off-contract and has been linked to the Roosters.<\/p>\n

Talakai also scored a double for the Sharks in the first half while KL Iro had a hat-trick himself.<\/p>\n

Iro’s third try came with four minutes left and made the score 42-34 to setup a grandstand finish. <\/p>\n

Late in the match, Nicho Hynes put a kick to the corner on the fourth tackle and Iro had the chance for a fourth. However, the cover defence of Thomas Chester, Heilum Luki and Tom Dearden bundled him into touch.<\/p>\n

The match was then sealed moments later when Iro dropped a ball on halfway with Luki scooping up the loose ball and running away to score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharks centre Siosifa Talakai will await his fate with the match review committee after he was placed on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-627705","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\/627705","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=627705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}