Eels forward Marata Niukore is facing a two-game ban after he was charged with a grade-one crusher tackle in Thursday night's win over Melbourne.
Niukora was pinged by the match review committee for his tackle on Storm forward Tom Eisenhuth in the 30th minute of the 14-0 triumph.
He can halve the ban if he enters an early guilty plea.
Melbourne prop Nelson Asofa-Solomona has been given a grade-one careless high tackle charge for his hit on Niukore in the 53rd minute.
He will receive a fine of $750-$900 depending on whether he submits an early guilty plea or contests the charge.
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Bellamys blow up had the desired result then. When will the NRL grow some balls.
Have a listen to the pressers. Bellamy only responded to leading questions. It was the questions the reporters chose to ask and not Bellamy. The reporters did not see fit to ask about the high late dangerous tackle on Moses.
Wile, this is where the mrc should've shown their strength but chose to miss that one and chose to bend to the sound of the squeaky wheel instead.
its on the mrc to show they are fair dinkum
Very true
The Moses tackle by that Storm winger was dangerous that even Gould called it out. But no charge.
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Squeaky wheel prevails again. It's truly Sickening!
Yes, pretty sure Storms had complained about that. Bellamy had specifically mentioned that in his presser. Saw the replay but it was not really a crusher. And surprise surprise, only a fine for NAS while Nathan Brown got 2 games for it.
Ok, just watched the replay to see the incident. It was certainly no worse than either of the two storm crushers, which don't even get a mention in the report, but the most mind boggling part of this is that Nelson smashes Niukores nose all over his face and sends him off for a HIA, yet is only looking at a $750 fine, and the coat hanger by Olam on Moses doesn't even rate a mention. The NRL is a dead set joke.
Do you think because the storm have so many people injured that the NRL is turning a blind eye?
Olams coat hanger on moses was somewhat similar to leiluas coat hanger on edwards imo
Well perhaps BA should take notes from Bellamy et al.
Thats another area that BA struggles and that's raising these issues through the media. Love them or hate them, sometimes you need to whinge through the media at the pressers - you get them in the media to do the heavy lifting.
It's not whinging it's actually an important part of coaching - getting the media behind a cause
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