{"id":884280,"date":"2026-09-08T09:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884280\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T09:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:26:20","slug":"nrl-judiciary-2026-live-updates-reuben-cotter-hearing-results-latest-news-sharks-vs-cowboys-elimination-final-jared-waerea-hargreaves-comments-high-tackle-on-josh-papalii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884280\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL Judiciary 2026 LIVE updates: Reuben Cotter hearing results, latest news, Sharks vs Cowboys elimination final; Jared Waerea-Hargreaves comments, high tackle on Josh Papalii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These latest replays are showing Hess actually bumps his teammate Cotter before they reached Papalii.<\/p>\n<p>Cotter appears to be knocked towards Papalii\u2019s chin right before contact is made.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReuben\u2019s trajectory changed quite drastically there,\u201d Mr. Hancock said.<\/p>\n<p>Cotter\u2019s lawyer is not arguing that the lock forward\u2019s shoulder did hit Papalii on the chin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a substantial movement,\u201d Mr. Hancock said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe couldn\u2019t have avoided it. Not all head contact is avoidable. It\u2019s a common-sense verdict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The judiciary panel of Perenara and Lindner are tuned in through video link.<\/p>\n<p>NRL counsel Gyles is now arguing the mitigating circumstances surrounding Hess\u2019 involvement is not a matter of guilty or not guilty, but only an issue of grading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These latest replays are showing Hess actually bumps his teammate Cotter before they reached Papalii. Cotter appears to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-884280","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\/884280","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=884280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}