{"id":661911,"date":"2026-05-10T13:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/661911\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T13:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:46:15","slug":"nrl-news-2026-manly-hooker-brandon-wakeham-facing-suspension-for-high-tackle-vs-broncos-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/661911\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Manly hooker Brandon Wakeham facing suspension for high tackle vs Broncos, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manly<\/a>‘s dominant win over reigning premiers Brisbane<\/a> has come at a cost, with hooker Brandon Wakeham<\/a> set for a stint on the sidelines.<\/p>\n

Wakeham was sin binned late in the first half on Saturday night after racing out of the line and collecting Broncos prop Ben Talty with a high shot.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old was called out alongside Sea Eagles captain Jake Trbojevic and given his marching orders.<\/p>\n

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“He leaves the ground, he made direct contact and there’s a high level of carelessness there,” referee Gerard Sutton said.<\/p>\n

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Brandon Wakeham’s high tackle on Ben Talty.\u00a0Fox League<\/p>\n

Greg Alexander admitted on Fox League commentary it “doesn’t take much to get it wrong” as Wakeham ran off the field and replays showed the force of his contact.<\/p>\n

The NRL’s match review committee have charged Wakeham with a grade two careless high tackle, resulting in a one-game ban with an early guilty plea.<\/p>\n

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If he fights the charge and loses, Wakeham will be rubbed out for two matches.<\/p>\n

Wakeham was the only player from Saturday’s games facing suspension, with Sharks prop Tom Hazelton set to escape with a fine for his high tackle on Cameron Murray<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manly‘s dominant win over reigning premiers Brisbane has come at a cost, with hooker Brandon Wakeham set for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-661911","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\/661911","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=661911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}