{"id":864632,"date":"2026-08-22T18:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864632\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T18:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:08:14","slug":"nrlw-2026-league-set-to-investigate-timing-and-circumstances-around-vision-of-st-george-illawarra-dragons-nita-maynard-perrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864632\/","title":{"rendered":"NRLW 2026: League set to investigate timing and circumstances around vision of St George Illawarra Dragons\u2019 Nita Maynard-Perrin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NRL<\/a> is set to investigate the timing and circumstances surrounding vision of a Dragons NRLW<\/a> player using her phone while on the bench mid-game on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Dragons<\/a> hooker Nita Maynard-Perrin was spotted on her phone early in the second half of St George Illawarra\u2019s match against North Queensland<\/a> at Allianz Stadium.<\/p>\n

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Nita Maynard-Perrin on the bench with her phone mid-game on Saturday.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

The Dragons are aware of the footage but poured cold water on it, saying Maynard-Perrin was simply in contact with her family after leaving the field injured.<\/p>\n

The No.9 had finished up in the third minute after suffering a dislocated elbow.<\/p>\n

She was later seen on the bench with her left arm in a sling and was set to go to hospital on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The NRL has strict rules around the use of phones during men\u2019s and women\u2019s matches due to the risk sports betting poses for the game.<\/p>\n

When contacted by nine.com.au, the NRL said it would likely probe the timing of the incident and why Maynard-Perrin was on her phone during the match.<\/p>\n

There is no suggestion the Dragons player was doing anything improper.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Shaun Johnson found himself in hot water<\/a> during his time at the Sharks when he was seen using his phone in the dressing rooms after injuring his hamstring at Suncorp Stadium.<\/p>\n

The star playmaker avoided being sanctioned by the NRL as it was deemed he had only been using his phone to speak with family about his injury.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys won Saturday\u2019s game 32-28 and winger Charlize Lloyd-Phillips scored a hat-trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NRL is set to investigate the timing and circumstances surrounding vision of a Dragons NRLW player using…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-864632","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\/864632","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=864632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}