{"id":915749,"date":"2026-10-04T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T11:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915749\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T11:24:11","slug":"nrl-grand-final-2026-kalyn-ponga-avoids-being-sent-to-the-sin-bin-controversial-high-tackle-sydney-roosters-vs-newcastle-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915749\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL Grand Final 2026: Kalyn Ponga avoids being sent to the sin bin, controversial high tackle, Sydney Roosters vs Newcastle Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five months after being sent off for a high tackle in the opening Origin match at Accor Stadium, Kalyn Ponga was lucky to avoid the same fate in this year\u2019s decider.<\/p>\n

In the 25th minute of the contest against the Sydney Roosters<\/a>, Ponga\u2019s shoulder caught Victor Radley high, and referee Adam Gee subsequently placed him on report.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe does get him high,\u201d Billy Slater said on Channel Nine. <\/p>\n

However, the decision not to send the Knights captain to the sin bin came much to the dismay of the Sydney Roosters, who were frustrated with the controversial call.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we\u2019re consistent with the rules, that\u2019s a shoulder to the head,\u201d Roosters captain James Tedesco was heard saying to the referee.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a sin bin all year.\u201d<\/p>\n

To make matters worse for the Roosters, Ponga scored four minutes later after scooping up the ball and going the length of the field to score.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s on report (and) it\u2019s been reviewed,\u201d Gee said.<\/p>\n

Ponga lights up GF with full field try | 00:36<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five months after being sent off for a high tackle in the opening Origin match at Accor Stadium,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-915749","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\/915749","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=915749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}