{"id":810236,"date":"2026-07-19T13:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810236\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T13:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:29:10","slug":"nrl-news-2026-andrew-johns-reacts-to-latu-fainu-sin-bin-wests-tigers-vs-bulldogs-video-reaction-sunday-footy-show-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810236\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Andrew Johns reacts to Latu Fainu sin bin, Wests Tigers vs Bulldogs video, reaction, Sunday Footy Show debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Johns<\/a> has blown up over Latu Fainu\u2019s controversial sin bin<\/a> during the Tigers<\/a>\u2032 loss to the Bulldogs <\/a>on Saturday night, which resulted in a two-game ban. <\/p>\n

Fainu was given his marching orders for a dangerous tackle on Leo Thompson<\/a>, which saw the Canterbury prop land in an awkward position.<\/p>\n

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Latu Fainu\u2019s tackle on Leo Thompson.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

The young utility dove low at Thompson\u2019s legs and flipped him over, but never grabbed or lifted the Kiwi enforcer in the tackle.<\/p>\n

The incident drew the ire of Johns, who was left in disbelief and vented his clear frustration during Nine\u2019s Sunday Footy Show prior to Fainu being charged with grade three dangerous contact and facing a fortnight on the sideline.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re so paranoid about hitting players in the head now,\u201d the Immortal said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks awkward, he goes low and makes the tackle low and unfortunately, Leo Thompson gets in a bit of a dangerous position. What\u2019s he done wrong? He\u2019s done nothing wrong \u2026 you can\u2019t take accidents out of the game. <\/p>\n

\u201cGo back and have a look at Trevor Gillmeister, he used to fold people in half – he hit them low like that and cut them in half. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo penalty whatsoever, honestly. You can\u2019t tackle high in case you chin them, but you can\u2019t go below the knees now, so where are you supposed to hit them? Not even a penalty for mine, you can\u2019t take the accidents out of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johns got into a heated debate with co-panellists Billy Slater<\/a> and Brad Fittler<\/a>, who were leaning towards the referee for deciding to bin Fainu.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing technically that he has done wrong is wrap his arms,\u201d Slater said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe look on his face, he knows he got that tackle wrong. There\u2019s an argument both ways, but I think they got the decision right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fittler took aim at Fainu\u2019s tackle technique in the awkward moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe got it so wrong, he just launched himself. The reason he got binned is because he got it wrong and the bloke landed on his head,\u201d the Roosters legend said.<\/p>\n

To make matters worse, Adam Doueihi<\/a> will miss one game through suspension after being charged with a grade two careless high tackle on Harry Hayes.<\/p>\n

Alex Twal escaped with an $1800 fine for slapping Jaeman Salmon during the loss. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Johns has blown up over Latu Fainu\u2019s controversial sin bin during the Tigers\u2032 loss to the Bulldogs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-810236","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\/810236","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=810236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}