{"id":367526,"date":"2026-04-07T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367526\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:23:08","slug":"mitchell-moses-sent-official-warning-by-nrl-following-easter-monday-antics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367526\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Moses sent official warning by NRL following Easter Monday antics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tensions were high on Easter Monday during a golden point thriller between the Parramatta Eels<\/a> and Wests Tigers<\/a>, which saw plenty of big calls being made by referee Peter Gough.<\/p>\n

Eyebrows were raised at NRL<\/a> headquarters upon review of the fiery fixture, where it was picked up that Eels skipper Mitchell Moses<\/a> touched Gough three times when he went up to question his rulings.<\/p>\n

It is being reported by the Daily Telegraph that the NRL’s Match Review Committee has issued Moses with an official warning about touching referees.<\/p>\n

Despite all the incidents on Monday not being aggressive in nature, the rules are still in place for players not to touch the referee under any circumstances.<\/p>\n

Moses was also issued with a \u2018concerning act notice’ surrounding his emotive approaches to referees during this season, contributing to being pulled up by the NRL<\/a> management.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There were plenty of heated discussions during the match at CommBank Stadium, and the NRL<\/a> monitoring teams were closely monitoring the situation as they attempt to reinforce the rules surrounding player and referee contact.<\/p>\n

There was a significant crackdown on touching the referees in the 2016 season, where we saw many stars fined for touching the referees during games.<\/p>\n

It included Kieran Foran<\/a>, Sam McKendry<\/a>, James Roberts<\/a> and Tyson Frizell<\/a>, all fined during that year.<\/p>\n

Tigers star Jarome Luai<\/a> was also fined for touching Chris Sutton during a try celebration in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the fiery discussions at CommBank Stadium surrounded Moses wanting to challenge a call during the first half, where he believed he wasn’t allowed to challenge Gough’s ruling.<\/p>\n

It happened when Jack Williams<\/a> was deemed to have lost the ball close to the line, despite him believing he was tackled and was simply playing the ball.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The call went against Parramatta, and Moses expressed his frustration with the call in the post-match press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Williams) felt like he was held and had about four players on him so he’s tried to get up and play the ball”, Moses said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then a bloke has come flying in, so I asked to challenge it, and he (Gough) said he hadn’t called held yet. So there was no point in me challenging it because I was never going to win it. I don’t know.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe pretty much told me not to challenge it because he told me he hadn’t said held. There was no way I was going to win that. But it’s not why we lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

The star halfback wears his pride on his sleeve and is extremely passionate about the blue and gold.<\/p>\n

Despite the slip-up, there was no malice in his breach and he will not be issued a fine by NRL<\/a> officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tensions were high on Easter Monday during a golden point thriller between the Parramatta Eels and Wests Tigers,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-367526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367526","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=367526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}