A number of stars have been charged by the NRL’s match review committee after a chaotic Friday night during Anzac Round.<\/p>\n
A total of nine charges have been dished out to eight players from the double-header, which saw the North Queensland Cowboys<\/a> beat the Cronulla Sharks<\/a> in Townsville, and the Brisbane Broncos<\/a> get the better of the Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> at Suncorp Stadium.<\/p>\n The players with the most nervous waits were those accussed of tripping.<\/p>\n Stephen Crichton<\/a> and Ezra Mam<\/a> have both been hit with Grade 1 charges and, given they are both on a first offence on their rolling 12-month record, will only face $1000 fines if they accept early guilty pleas. They would risk $1500 if they fight and lose.<\/p>\n Harry Hayes<\/a>, who was sin binned during the first half of the loss to Brisbane for his trip, was not so lucky, being slapped with a Grade 2 charge.<\/p>\n He will miss a game with an early guilty plea, or two matches if he fights and loses.<\/p>\n In the same game, Matt Burton<\/a> has avoided suspension for a dangerous throw on Kotoni Staggs<\/a>, but a Grade 1 charge and second offence means he will face $2500 with an early guilty plea, or risk two matches if he fights and loses.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Reuben Cotter<\/a> was charged twice – once for dangerous contact and once for a careless high tackle. Both were handed out as Grade 1 charges, and he will pay $1000 per offence, or risk an extra $500 per offence if he fights either.<\/p>\n Reed Mahoney<\/a> was slapped with a Grade 1 contrary conduct charge against Siosifa Talakai<\/a> and will face the same penalty as each of Cotter’s offences.<\/p>\n Billy Burns<\/a> was hit with a Grade 1 dangerous contact charge. on Tom Chester<\/a>. He will face $1800 with an early guilty plea or $2500 if he fights and loses.<\/p>\n Brisbane forward Preston Riki<\/a> was the only other player charged, hit with a Grade 2 careless high tackle charge on Jonathan Sua<\/a>. He will face a one-game suspension with an early guilty plea, or two matches if he fights and loses.<\/p>\n All eight players have until midday (AEST) on Sunday to determine their pleas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of stars have been charged by the NRL’s match review committee after a chaotic Friday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-629734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629734","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=629734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}