{"id":366165,"date":"2026-04-06T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/366165\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:22:10","slug":"hudson-young-charged-over-hair-pull-pompey-facing-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/366165\/","title":{"rendered":"Hudson Young charged over hair pull, Pompey facing suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canberra Raiders<\/a> second-rower Hudson Young<\/a> will avoid a suspension over a hair pull on Dominic Young<\/a> during his side’s loss to the Newcastle Knights<\/a> on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Young was penalised for the offence where he grabbed Young by the hair and pulled during a play the ball in the early going of the second half.<\/p>\n

The Raiders’ star, who is in line to be picked for the New South Wales Blues<\/a> again this season, has been hit with a Grade 1 contrary conduct charge which will see him fined $1000 with an early guilty plea or $1500 if he fights and loses at the judiciary.<\/p>\n

It’s a first offence for Young on his rolling 12-month record.<\/p>\n

New Zealand Warriors<\/a> centre Adam Pompey<\/a> on the other hand wasn’t so lucky, being pinged for dangerous contact during the 67th minute of his side’s loss to the Cronulla Sharks<\/a> in the Shire.<\/p>\n

While the offence on Briton Nikora<\/a> didn’t go penalised or reported, he has been slapped with a Grade 2 charge for what appeared to be a lifted knee in attack which made contact with Nikora’s face.<\/p>\n

The Sharks second-rower, returning from injury himself, reeled out of the tackle holding his nose, and Pompey will now need to decide whether to accept a one-match suspension with an early guilty plea, or risk a second match by fighting at the NRL<\/a> judiciary.<\/p>\n

The MRC dished out three other charges from Sunday’s double-header, all from the later game, with Greg Marzhew<\/a> (dangerous contact on Kaeo Weekes<\/a>), Kaeo Weekes<\/a> (careless high tackle on Phoenix Crossland<\/a>) and Tyson Frizell<\/a> (dangerous contact on Joseph Tapine<\/a>) all handed fines for Grade 1 offences.<\/p>\n

Frizell, who is on a second offence, will be up for either $1800 with an early guilty plea or $2500 if he fights and loses, while Marzhew and Weekes are on first offences and can accept $1000 fines, or fight and risk $1500.<\/p>\n

Sharks centre KL Iro<\/a> was the only the other player placed on report during Sunday’s action, but wasn’t charged by the MRC.<\/p>\n

All five players charged have until midday (AEST) on Tuesday to determine their pleas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canberra Raiders second-rower Hudson Young will avoid a suspension over a hair pull on Dominic Young during his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-366165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366165","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=366165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}