{"id":455781,"date":"2026-06-01T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/455781\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:05:13","slug":"multiple-stars-charged-by-mrc-on-sundays-triple-header","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/455781\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple stars charged by MRC on Sunday&#8217;s triple-header"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The NRL&#8217;s Match Review Committee has charged five players following Sunday&#8217;s triple-header of games.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2 pm clash between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/brisbane-broncos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brisbane Broncos<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/st-george-illawarra-dragons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a>, four players were pulled up for indiscretions at Suncorp Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Broncos pair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/adam-reynolds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Reynolds<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/brendan-piakura\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Piakura<\/a> were both booked for a Grade 1 dangerous contact charge. The skipper received a $700 fine for a first offence, or $1000 if he fights and loses. Meanwhile, Piakura will receive a $1800 fine at an early plea, given that it is the Cook Islanders&#8217; second offence.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the field, twin brother-duo Ryan and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/toby-couchman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toby Couchman<\/a> were placed on report during the match.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ryan was booked following dangerous contact in the 13th minute of the match on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/payne-haas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Payne Haas<\/a>, resulting in a grade 1 charge. He will receive a $1800 fine at an early plea, or it will be bumped up to $2500 if he fights the charge unsuccessfully.<\/p>\n<p>Toby will receive a $1500 fine for his shoulder charge on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/vaa-semu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Va&#8217;a Semu<\/a> in the 71st minute, and may be bumped up to $2000 if he fights and loses the appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Dragons&#8217; first victory of the year was the Raiders hosting the Cowboys in the nation&#8217;s capital, where Cowboys forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/wiremu-greig\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wiremu Greig<\/a> was charged with a grade 1 careless high tackle on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/zac-hosking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zac Hosking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Greig will be fined $1000 at an early plea or bumped up an extra $500 if he is found guilty at the panel.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; The NRL&#8217;s Match Review Committee has charged five players following Sunday&#8217;s triple-header of games. In the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-455781","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\/455781","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=455781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}