The Parramatta Eels has today accepted the early guilty pleas regarding Dylan Brown and Marata Niukore's charges from Friday night.
Dylan Brown has been in contact with Sydney Roosters player Drew Hutchinson yesterday.
“No player likes to see anyone injured.
"Yesterday I contacted Drew to check up on him and apologise.
"I also let him know that it was an accident and never my intention for him to get hurt,” said Brown.
Parramatta Eels General Manager of Football Mark O’Neill said, “As a Club we never want to see serious injuries occur and we would like to pass on our best wishes to Drew for a swift recovery."
Brown will miss three matches for his dangerous contact charge, while Niukore will miss two weeks for a careless high tackle
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Well done Dylan.
Classy response by Brown. Put it to bed now move on .
Yep. Good Job. Owned it was a mistake but still careless.
Hope the media will now stop.
I'm betting the first half hour of NRL360 will be on how "brave" the Rorters played and how bad the officials were.
No, it will be a Special NRL 360 edition covering how bad the Eels are and how brave the Roosters are.
Absolutely. I was hoping there'd be some controversy from the games on the rest of the weekend but unfortunately they were very vanilla. Kent and co simply won't be able to shut up about how brave and angelic the Roosters are and how evil Dylan Brown is and they're still 'not convinced' about Parra.
Then they'll get another invite to dinner with Uncle Nick and maybe even a loan car or two. Makes me sick.
To be fair it's probably the next area that our Club needs to work on. We've spent the last few years stopping all of the leaking that used to come out of the Club and that's improved to no end - the internal comms management has become so, so, so much better. Evidenced by the way all of our off contract players have been handled, despite all their managers trying to stir the pot we've remained on message and didn't give the media an inch.
But clubs that are run extremely well go that step further - they outwardly and consistently manage / manufacture / engineer positive stories. New players, the strength of our youth, community service, sob stories - not just the odd one, but saturating the conversation with these stories and having a few in the back pocket to run in case of events like this last game.
Great clubs like the Roosters and Storm manage the narrative, and they do it expertly. They have mates in the media, in the commentators chairs, they earn favours and in turn it pays dividends come recruitment and retention as players also buy into the conversation.
As much as I hate seeing how well the Roosters manage the conversation, it's mostly out of jealousy...I wish we did it that well. And hopefully it's somewhere we'll be soon, because I do think it's key to long term success.
I still think they could have got Niukore's charge reduced but we have a history of bending over and taking it from the judiciary.
Hard to fight Uncle Nick who controls the judiciary.
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