{"id":681249,"date":"2026-05-19T17:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681249\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:44:16","slug":"nrl-news-2026-dane-gagai-wins-plea-to-overturn-fine-for-tackle-on-aj-brimson-judiciary-results-newcastle-knights-defeat-titans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681249\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026 | Dane Gagai wins plea to overturn fine for tackle on AJ Brimson, judiciary results; Newcastle Knights defeat Titans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newcastle<\/a> veteran Dane Gagai has saved himself $1800 after a successful trip to the NRL<\/a> judiciary to battle his sanction for a tackle on Titans centre AJ Brimson.<\/p>\n

In the sixth minute of the game, the Titans had already stamped their mark on the scoreboard and were looking to extend their lead when Gagai laid his eyes on Brimson.<\/p>\n

Brimson was looking to make a break down the edge off the back of a slick shift down the line by his teammates, but Gagai latched onto his body and brought him down.<\/p>\n

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Brimson landed on the turf in an awkward position as Gagai held onto his legs.<\/p>\n

The pair both returned to their feet with little issue and play continued.<\/p>\n

\"Dane<\/p>\n

Dane Gagai tackles Titans gun AJ Brimson.\u00a0Fox League<\/p>\n

“That is a good battle out on the edge between Brimson and Gagai,” Fox League reporter Jake Duke said in commentary.<\/p>\n

Newcastle went on to win the Magic Round match 36-12<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gagai was in no mood to accept the $1800 fine that followed for dangerous contact, instead confirming he and the Titans would fight it.<\/p>\n

Had he failed his plea, Gagai might have been dealt a match ban.<\/p>\n

The NRL confirmed on Tuesday that he had been cleared of the charge. <\/p>\n

Gagai will return with the Knights in round 13 to face the Eels off the back of a bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle veteran Dane Gagai has saved himself $1800 after a successful trip to the NRL judiciary to battle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-681249","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\/681249","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=681249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}