{"id":342450,"date":"2026-03-22T16:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/342450\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T16:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:43:14","slug":"nrl-news-carnage-as-knights-star-suspended-latrell-mitchell-and-six-other-players-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/342450\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news: Carnage as Knights star suspended, Latrell Mitchell and six other players charged"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trey Mooney has joined a growing list of NRL<\/a> players unavailable for the Knights after the front-rower was slapped with a one-game suspension on Sunday. Mooney was sin-binned late in Newcastle’s loss to the Warriors on Saturday for making dangerous contact with Tanah Boyd while he was kicking.<\/p>\n

The Knights prop ran out of the line and appeared to shoulder-charge Boyd while the Warriors halfback was putting up a kick. Mooney also ran through the kicking leg of Boyd – a big no-no that’s been stamped out in recent years.<\/p>\n

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Trey Mooney (L) has copped a one-game ban, while Latrell Mitchell (R) was one of six players fined by the NRL. Image: Getty\/AAP<\/p>\n

On Sunday the match review committee deemed it a Grade 2 dangerous contact charge. Mooney will miss one game with an early guilty plea, or two if he challenges at the judiciary and loses.<\/p>\n

He joins Kalyn Ponga and Dylan Brown on the sidelines<\/a> in another major blow for Newcastle. Ponga is expected to be out until Round 10, while Brown won’t be back until Round 7. Fletcher Sharpe also hasn’t played <\/a>since Las Vegas due to a knee injury, but there’s hope he’ll be back next week against the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n

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Trey Mooney was sin-binned for his dangerous contact on Tanah Boyd. Image: Fox League<\/p>\n

Latrell Mitchell and five other players cop fines<\/p>\n

Mooney was one of seven players charged from Saturday’s games. Newcastle teammates Phoenix Crossland and Dane Gagai each copped $1000 fines for dangerous contact on Jacob Laban and Jackson Ford respectively.<\/p>\n

Blayke Brailey also copped a $1000 fine for tripping Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow in Cronulla’s loss to the Dolphins. And Sharks teammate Jess Ramien was fined $1800 for a careless high tackle.<\/p>\n

Api Koroisau is also out of pocket $1800 for tripping Jye Gray in the Wests Tigers’ loss to the Rabbitohs. While Latrell Mitchell copped a $1000 fine for a careless high tackle on Heamasi Makasini.<\/p>\n

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Latrell Mitchell accidentally whacked Heamasi Makasini in the face. Image: Fox League<\/p>\n

Mitchell tried to dislodge the ball while Makasini was putting it down for a try, but only managed to whack the Tigers centre in the face. Because the foul play occurred during the act of scoring a try, the Tigers were given two shots at goal for a rare eight-point try.<\/p>\n

But Souths coach Wayne Bennett didn’t think it was worthy<\/a> of an eight-point try. “Latrell didn’t deliberately play at his head. He played at the ball,” Bennett said. “He tried to get the ball and knock it out of his hands, so I thought it was harsh. I don’t know what else he can do there. There was obviously a penalty there. But I think it’s added two points to it (unfairly).”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trey Mooney has joined a growing list of NRL players unavailable for the Knights after the front-rower was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[70623,48167,111,139,577,69,213,89867,182822],"class_list":["post-342450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-dylan-brown","tag-latrell-mitchell","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nrl","tag-nz","tag-sports","tag-the-knights","tag-trey-mooney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}