Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nBut he is fortunate it wasn\u2019t a Grade 2 or 3 charge or a charge for striking or a Grade 3 Contrary Conduct Charge, which carries a 3+ week suspension. <\/p>\n
However, the Souths star will undoubtedly just be happy to serve a single match ban and move on from the incident.<\/p>\n
Speaking in Friday\u2019s post-game press conference, Walker owned his mistake and revealed he apologised to Cogger after fulltime.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just wasn\u2019t good enough,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a senior player, I\u2019ve just got to be better in those moments and not let my aggression get the better of me. I let my teammates down, and I\u2019m really sorry about that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spoke to Jack after the game and apologised to him. My emotions got the better of me. It wasn\u2019t good enough as a senior player. It\u2019s not on. I let the team down massively.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got that one wrong for sure. I\u2019ll own that. There\u2019s no excuses for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
NRL world in disbelief at Cody Walker\u2019s lash out<\/p>\n
On Friday Walker\u2019s act of foul play saw a try ruled out and the veteran was sin binned and placed on report. <\/p>\n
Referee Adam Gee sent Walker to the sin bin but could have easily sent him off for the early brain snap, with Walker coming off his best game of the season in last week\u2019s big win over the Eels.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re captain. You\u2019ve just cost them the try,\u201d the referee told reporter. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a deliberate kick. You\u2019re in the bin and on report\u201d.<\/p>\n
Walker is renowned for having arguably the shortest fuse of any player in the NRL, but the commentators could not believe their eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s on tilt here, Cody Walker,\u201d Cooper Cronk said on Kayo Sports.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe lashes out at Jack Cogger with the right foot kick.\u00a0It\u2019s a selfish play from the captain Cody Walker. <\/p>\n
Watch Cody Walker\u2019s brain fade in the video above<\/p>\n
\u201cFrustrated by something from Jack Cogger but you just can\u2019t don\u2019t do that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately Cody Walker has a record of doing things like this and it\u2019s just cost his team big time. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey just scored a try, now it\u2019s been reversed and they\u2019re \\under pressure for the next 10 minutes. Selfish play from Cody Walker.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is inexcusable,\u201d Andrew Voss said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were always going to score and they\u2019re about to go down to 12 (men).<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s grade five petulance. It will not bring a bruise to the leg but an act of petulance, how else do you describe it?\u00a0You\u2019re almost without words.\u201d<\/p>\n
Braith Anasta described it as a \u201cbrain explosion\u201d from Walker. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe needs anger management classes,\u201d Anasta said.<\/p>\n
\u201cCody\u2019s been on edge for the majority of the year. He\u2019s been playing great. Maybe he plays better when he\u2019s angry but that was just ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n
Greg Alexander said: \u201cThe short fuse has been there forever but I think this year has been worse than ever.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like this. I haven\u2019t seen many players do something like this that\u2019s cost your team a try.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former NRL player Chad Towsnend posted on X: \u201cCody Walker. You\u2019re captain and you just cost your team and the debutant a try!\u201d<\/p>\n
The League Scene wrote: \u201cCody Walker is lucky that wasn\u2019t a send off.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was intent in that action and has cost his side a certain try. An absolutely dumb play from a player that really knows better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Penrith scored first half tries through Dylan Edwards and Liam Henry, before the Rabbitohs got on the board with a try to Edward Kosi. <\/p>\n
The Panthers led 12-10 at the break after Jennings got his moment, scoring in the corner on the stroke of halftime.<\/p>\n
Tom Jenkins scored three second half tries to help Penrith claim a 36-14 victory over the Rabbitohs to remain clear on top of the NRL ladder without their State of Origin players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cody Walker can consider himself a very lucky man as he was handed just a single match ban…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,277557,158,85],"class_list":["post-779065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-ncaeditorialkayoprogram","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779065","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=779065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}