2025 Match Review & Judiciary charges

[Someguy]

Friday​

Warriors v Manly​

Jazz Tevaga (MAN)​

Grade 1 Contrary Conduct on Demetric Vaimauga (80 min)
Base Penalty $1500
2nd offence
- Early plea - $1800
- Guilty at panel / no contest - $2500
PLEA: 12pm Monday

Penrith v Sydney​

Salesi Foketi (SYD)​

Grade 2 Careless High Tackle on Scott Sorensen (73 min)
Base Penalty 2 matches
1st offence
- Early plea - 1 match
- Guilty at panel / no contest - 2 matches
PLEA: 12pm Monday

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guess they had to go hard on Foteki to justify the call from bunker.

 

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Saturday​

St George Illawarra v South Sydney​

Lachlan Hubner (SOU)​

Grade 2 Crusher Tackle on Clint Gutherson (2 min)
Base Penalty 3 matches
1st offence
- Early plea - 2 matches
- Guilty at panel / no contest - 3 matches
PLEA: 12pm Monday

Valentine Holmes (SGI)​

Grade 1 Dangerous Contact on Jai Arrow (20 min)
Base penalty $1500
1st offence
- Early plea - $1000
- Guilty at panel / no contest - $1500
PLEA: 12pm Monday

North Queensland v Cronulla​

Harrison Edwards (NQL)

Grade 1 Dangerous Contact on Oregon Kaufusi (23 min)
Base penalty $1500
1st offence
- Early plea - $1000
- Guilty at panel / no contest - $1500
PLEA: 12pm Monday

Reuben Cotter (NQL)
Grade 1 Dangerous Throw on Kayal Iro (74 min)
Base penalty $1500
1st offence
- Early plea - $1000
- Guilty at panel / no contest - $1500
PLEA: 12pm Monday

Canberra v Brisbane​

Cory Paix (BRI)
Grade 1 Dangerous Throw on Tom Starling (42 min)
Base penalty $1500
1st offence
- Early plea - $1000
- Guilty at panel / no contest - $1500
PLEA: 12pm Monday

Kobe Hetherington (BRI)
Grade 1 Crusher Tackle on Zac Hosking (67 min)
Base penalty $2000
2nd offence
- Early plea - $3000
- Guilty at panel / no contest - 2 matchres
PLEA: 12pm Monday

 

[yobbo84]

Direct shoulder to the head = 2 weeks

Innocuous 'crusher' that wasn't penalised and didn't hurt anyone = 2 weeks

Madness

 

[Warriors Fever]

Direct shoulder to the head = 2 weeks

Innocuous 'crusher' that wasn't penalised and didn't hurt anyone = 2 weeks

Madness

I’ve thought for years they’re a little too hard on crushers. The last bad one was Kurt Mann last year which copped a big penalty but when was the last person seriously injured from one.

 

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Sunday​

Parramatta v Wests Tigers​

Jack Williams (PAR)​

Grade 1 Careless High Tackle on Api Koroisay (14 min)
Base penalty $1500
2nd offence
- Early plea - $1800
- Guilty at panel / no contest - $2500
PLEA: 12pm Tuesday

Canterbury v Gold Coast​

Marcelo Montoya (CBY)​

Grade 1 Shoulder Charge on Keano Kini (1 min)
Base penalty $2000
1st offence
- Early plea - $1500
- Guilty at panel / no contest - $2000
PLEA: 12pm Tuesday

 

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Kai Pearce-Paul (NEW)
PLEA: Guilty - early plea. 2 matches​

Salesi Foketi (SYD)​

PLEA: Guilty - seeking downgrade.
HEARING RESULT: Tuesday night

Lachlan Hubner (SOU)​

PLEA: Guilty - early plea. 2 matches

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[Warrimoo3]

The whol

Direct shoulder to the head = 2 weeks

Innocuous 'crusher' that wasn't penalised and didn't hurt anyone = 2 weeks

Madness

The whole process is in urgent need of an injection of common sense . Nothing more frustrating for fans when players get suspended for innocuous incidents. After all, in the end it’s all about optimising the quality of the product and satisfying the fans . And seemingly random suspensions are detrimental to both those objectives. Peter V needs to solve this asap

 

[Captain Apollo]

Kai Pearce-Paul (NEW)​

PLEA: Guilty - early plea. 2 matches​

Salesi Foketi (SYD)​

PLEA: Guilty - seeking downgrade.
HEARING RESULT: Tuesday night

Lachlan Hubner (SOU)​

PLEA: Guilty - early plea. 2 matches

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Both Broncos players charged have taken the early guilty plea -



Source: https://www.nrl.com/news/2025/01/01/nrl-judiciary-report-2025/

 

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Jazz Tevaga (MAN)​

PLEA: Guilty - early plea. $1800

Valentine Holmes (SGI)​

PLEA: Guilty - early plea. $1000

Harrison Edwards (NQL)​

PLEA: Guilty - early plea. $1000

Reuben Cotter (NQL)​

PLEA: Guilty - early plea. $1000

Cory Paix (BRI)​

PLEA: Guilty - early plea. $1000

Kobe Hetherington (BRI)​

PLEA: Guilty - early plea. $3000

Remaining Thu-Sat pleas are in: https://leagueunlimited.com/news/41811-nrl-match-review-and-judiciary-charges-2025-nrl-round-2/

 

[Valheru]

So Foketi was unsuccessful in trying to get a downgrade for the tackle he got binned for.

So it is now official that a tackle where the player lowers himself to avoid head contact, does not swing an arm and has very low impact accidental contact with a head is a grade 2 careless tackle

I don't know what a grade 1 would be. It must not exist anymore.

 

[skeepe]

Gradings are all over the shop this year.

Tapine's shoulder charge - which deserved a charge, don't get me wrong - hits the other player in the shoulder/arm, gets a grade 2.

KPP, reckless shoulder direct to the head - also a grade 2.

Two completely different tackles, same penalty. It's madness.

 

[Saxon]

Gradings are all over the shop this year.

Tapine's shoulder charge - which deserved a charge, don't get me wrong - hits the other player in the shoulder/arm, gets a grade 2.

KPP, reckless shoulder direct to the head - also a grade 2.

Two completely different tackles, same penalty. It's madness.

Can't comment on the specific cases as I didn't see the Tapine hit, but just in general...

Why would you possibly think the Match Review Committee would be any more consistent than the bunker? Incapable of getting black/white decisions correct half the time, the NRL expects them to deal in shades of grey. Then add unconscious bias, pressure from clubs and the NRL, influence of (nay, manipulation by) media, and scrambling to seem consistent after last week's half-baked decision - we're on a hiding to nothing.

Unlike the bunker, it is needed; but what it needs most is a major overhaul!

 

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[Someguy]

not charging Cleary is a dangerous precedent. Launching yourself at a player running full speed is pretty damn reckless. Hip to head has as much or more potential to cause head injury as a shoulder or arm

 

[soc123_au]

Hip drops penalty sufficient apparently.

 

[Trifili13]

Hip drops penalty sufficient apparently.

Only if you play for an NRL protected team. Watch someone get suspended who had no intention of a hip drop while Munster lost his legs and used his weight to tackle the player from behind rather than the conventional legs covering tackle.

 

[Saxon]

Hip drops penalty sufficient apparently.

It wasn't a hip drop. Gee-up got it wrong.

“A hip-drop tackle is where a defending player in joining or committing a tackle, drops or uses their own body weight to apply pressure to an opponent's legs in such a way as to constitute an unacceptable risk of injury to the tackled player, this will constitute Dangerous Contact,”

Munster's hip hit the ground then the pink pervert fell over him. Ugly tackle but not illegal.

 

[skeepe]

It wasn't a hip drop. Gee-up got it wrong.

“A hip-drop tackle is where a defending player in joining or committing a tackle, drops or uses their own body weight to apply pressure to an opponent's legs in such a way as to constitute an unacceptable risk of injury to the tackled player, this will constitute Dangerous Contact,”

Munster's hip hit the ground then the pink pervert fell over him. Ugly tackle but not illegal.

Yep, the penalty wasn’t even for a hip drop, it was for “duty of care”.

 

[dogslife]

Hip drops penalty sufficient apparently.

Apparently neither you nor Adam Gee know what a hip drop is.