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Daily Mail
a day ago
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- Daily Mail
NRL star Mitchell Moses is busted in wild act that would get him in HUGE trouble in any workplace in Australia
Parramatta halfback Mitch Moses was caught delivering an almighty on-field spray to his new teammate Tallyn Da Silva while the match was on the line against the North Queensland Cowboys. The Eels moved four points clear of last-placed Gold Coast with a stirring 19-18 win over North Queensland at CommBank Stadium on Sunday. Moses booted the winning field goal with five minutes left to give the Eels their seventh win of the season and help them leapfrog the Cowboys into 13th spot with four games to play. However, with 10 minutes left in the match and the scores level, Moses exploded at Da Silva after the youngster decided to run the ball himself instead of passing to his teammates. Parramatta players looked incredibly frustrated by Da Silva's decision, with Moses caught on camera appearing to yell: 'Tallyn, you f***ing c**t!' Following the match, the skipper was asked about the incident by Bryan Fletcher on Fox Sports' Sunday Night with Matty Johns. 'Yeah, it happens on the field … was a tense game,' Moses explained. 'We'll learn a lot of lessons from that I think. We've got a really young squad at the moment and it's better to learn the lessons winning the game than having a loss.' Footy fans online were divided over Moses' fiery outburst, with some branding him a bully. 'What p**s-weak leadership from Mitchell Moses. Absolutely pathetic,' posted one X user. 'That's not a leader that's a bully,' agreed another. Others backed the Parramatta captain for his actions. 'The game was on the line. He is the captain. Did his job!' posted one user. '100% right he was to berate him, he will be better for it and 10 mins later he was celebrating,' said another. Cowboys coach Todd Payten took a cheeky dig at Mitch Moses for diving in an obstruction call that denied his side a late try On Monday morning, Andrew Voss addressed the incident on SEN radio, saying Da Silva played the 'worst four or five minutes at dummy half in the history of the game'. 'I don't think I've seen a dummy half make so many mistakes and errors of judgement in a short period with his team getting in front by one,' Voss said. 'The on-field berating by Mitchell Moses... that's happened plenty of times. (But) It happened three times in five minutes, how do you come back from that? 'Was it fair game? Mitchell Moses lost his you-know-what. And I can understand it. I can imagine Parramatta fans losing it.' Cowboys coach Todd Payten took a dig at Moses post-match, claiming that the halfback dived in a crucial obstruction call in the last 30 seconds of the game. 'I thought the on-field referee got it right. I've seen Mitchell dive over the years plenty of times,' he said. However, Payten later admitted the call was correct. 'I always think about putting myself on the other side and I think it was the right call in the end,' he said.
Daily Mail
2 days ago
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- Daily Mail
The NRL is rocked by another 'trainergate' scandal, a week after Penrith were slapped with a $50k fine following their game against Gold Coast
Several ex-footy players have been left baffled after another 'trainergate' incident has rocked rugby league, eight days after a Penrith Panthers trainer was embroiled in a mid-game scandal. On Sunday afternoon, Parramatta claimed a dramatic one-point victory against the Cowboys, thanks to a Mitch Moses field goal in the 74th minute. With the Eels leading 19-18, the Cowboys found themselves with the ball on their 10m line. The Queensland outfit looked to run the ball back upfield and passed the ball out wide, with Cowboys star Zac Laybutt fumbling a pass from Braidon Burns. It bounced on the ground before hitting a trainer in the back as he ran backwards towards the goal line. A North Queensland player dived to recover the ball, and the accidental interference from the trainer did not impact on a scoring opportunity, before the referee blew up to stop play. Let's get these trainers off the field @NRL — IMARoostàr🐓 (@IMAROOSTAR) August 10, 2025 'The ball has hit the trainer. That's trainergate,' Michal Ennis told Fox League. The trainer was later seen talking to a match official on the touchline. 'Seriously, is there any need for the trainer to be out there so early in a set,' Andrew Voss explained. 'What are we doing? Peter V'landys, you have work to do,' he fumed. 'That's a six to eight weeker,' Nathan Hindmarsh said, jokingly referring to Penrith Panther's trainer Corey Bocking's five-game suspension. Bocking was handed the ban after he appeared to run towards Jayden Campbell as the Gold Coast Titans star attempted to wind up a set shot at goal, during the Titans' last-gasp defeat by Penrith. The Panthers were also handed a $50,000 fine over the incident, which Ivan Cleary said was an honest mistake. Both the Cowboys and Eels went into Sunday's clash out of finals contention but played as if they were fighting for a playoff spot, trading tries and taking the game right to the death. Somewhat fittingly in the final game of the NRL's Indigenous Round, a pair of tries to Josh Addo-Carr boosted the Eels. But it was Moses' kicking game and late one-pointer that ultimately made the difference. The Cowboys looked to have snatched an unlikely victory in the last 30 seconds when Jake Clifford crossed but the try was disallowed by the bunker for interference on Moses as he moved to tackle. The win was another step forward in the rebuild under Jason Ryles and moved the Eels four points clear of Gold Coast at the bottom of the ladder with four matches to play, while the loss for the Cowboys increases the pressure on coach Todd Payten. Zac Lomax opened the scoring for the Eels with a penalty goal in the sixth minute, but it was the Cowboys' Jaxon Purdue who grabbed the first try of the game 15 minutes in, pouncing on a kick from Clifford after Zac Lomax slipped in pursuit. Addo-Carr then grabbed his double within six minutes, the latter from a deft Moses grubber, to put Parramatta up 12-8 after an entertaining first half. It took just three minutes of the second half for the Eels to extend their lead when Will Penisini touched down, but the Cowboys returned serve when Braidon Burns scored after an intercept from Semi Valemei. Two minutes later impressive Eels fullback Joash Papali'i spilled a bomb and Purdue capitalised to lock things up at 18-all, before Moses' heroics decided the outcome. For the Cowboys, Jason Taumalolo and Coen Hess were immense in the middle, turning back the clock with their punishing running. Hess might be in trouble with the match review committee, however, put on report early in the game for a dangerous tackle, diving at the legs of an already wrapped-up Papali'i.
Yahoo
22-06-2025
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Parramatta come out on top in clash of NRL battlers
Isaiah Iongi has helped Parramatta overcome the absence of their two biggest stars and post a 36-20 defeat of Gold Coast in the clash of the NRL's battlers. First-choice halves Mitch Moses (calf strain) and Dylan Brown (suspension) watched from afar as breakout fullback Iongi laid on three tries and proved the difference before 8074 fans - the Eels' smallest home crowd since pandemic restrictions. Sunday night's win will encourage the rebuilding Eels as they face at least three more weeks without Moses, having floundered in his absence to begin the season. The 16th-placed Eels' win leaves the Titans two competition points adrift in last place. Lomax's assist for Penisini is top shelf 🚀 #NRLEelsTitans — NRL (@NRL) June 22, 2025 Making matters worse, Gold Coast will be without halfback Jayden Campbell when they fight to turn things around against an equally desperate North Queensland next week. Campbell collected Sam Verrills' knee as the pair attempted to tackle Dylan Walker in the first half and was deemed to show category-one head-knock symptoms. Campbell's absence left goal-kicking duties to second-rower Beau Fermor, who had never kicked a goal at first-grade level before Sunday night. He managed only one from three attempts, the inaccuracy proving costly as the Titans attempted to fight back from 18-6 down. Iongi put Sean Russell in for his side's first try with a mammoth cut-out pass down the left side, and had a hand in another when AJ Brimson fumbled his bomb into the arms of Charlie Guymer. The fullback put Dean Hawkins over in the second half, his grubber kick bouncing from the goalposts and straight to the replacement halfback. Hawkins cleans up 🧼 #NRLEelsTitans — NRL (@NRL) June 22, 2025 It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows for Iongi. He threw an intercept to Alofiana Khan-Pereira, who belted 90 metres to bring the Titans within two points at the break. Khan-Pereira's second try made it a one-score game in the second half, before Zac Lomax, on return from NSW duty, snaffled a great offload for Will Penisini to barge over. Hawkins' one-two with Kelma Tuilagi put Penisini over for a second try only three minutes later as the Eels edged closer to their fifth win of the Jason Ryles era. Penisini went to the sin bin in the final two minutes for a dangerous throw on Fermor and could face scrutiny from the match review committee.
News.com.au
19-06-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Panthers confident Nathan Cleary will overcome groin concern to play next week
The Panthers are confident that superstar halfback Nathan Cleary will be fine to face the Bulldogs next Thursday despite the NSW No.7 battling through a mystery groin issue in the Blues' shock loss to the Maroons in Perth. Cleary gave up the goalkicking duties on Wednesday night and it proved telling as Zac Lomax missed several sideline conversions and a two-point field goal as NSW went down 26-24 to set up a decider. The champion halfback had a compression bandage on his right leg and kicked just three times in the first half as Jarome Luai and Latrell Mitchell picked up the slack. Luai sent his first kick sailing out on the full, with Cleary then taking over in the second half where he had 11 kicks for 295m, while he also ran five times. Cleary took the line on a couple of times in the first half and had a try disallowed for obstruction, but the Blues need him to be 100 per cent for the decider given they're already without the injured Mitch Moses. NSW coach Laurie Daley insisted his chief playmaker wasn't in any doubt, with the Panthers expecting Cleary to take on the Bulldogs next Thursday. The Panthers desperately need him to play the ladder-leading Bulldogs given they are one point outside the top eight and will be without their Origin stars for the game against the Warriors. 'He just felt a bit tight in his groin, so we wanted to limit the amount of force that he put through there,' Daley said, with Cleary not named for Penrith's trip to New Zealand this weekend. 'He's a tough kid. We know what a quality player he is, but he's tough. 'His groin was tight, but he got through OK.' Meanwhile, new Queensland captain Cameron Munster said he was hurt by the criticism that coach Billy Slater copped leading into the crunch game in Perth. Slater's selections were questioned – but all proved to be masterstrokes – while former Blues prop Aaron Woods called him a 'grub', which led to Slater referencing the late Paul Green at an emotional press conference the day before the game. The Maroons coach apologised to Green's family on Wednesday morning, with his players lifting to ease the pressure as they kept the series alive in the driving rain. 'I played with Bill. He is a champion player and a champion coach and I have had a great relationship with him and still do. We are really close mates,' man-of-the-match Munster said. 'When you have someone jabbing him like that, it really hurts. It hurts me personally and I never tell him that. I will tell him now, I love him. 'I just want to do the best thing for him and the best thing for Queensland. He's not doing this for him, he's doing this for Queensland, and he loves Queensland. 'That's the reason why he's so passionate, and when you have someone like that at the top, you want to play for him. At the end of the day … he's the reason I want to play.'
News.com.au
19-06-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Eels back young guns with Moses out
NRL: With Mitch Moses and Dylan Brown sidelined, the Eels are backing their young stars to rise to the occasion in his absence.
