{"id":113945,"date":"2021-08-09T07:12:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T07:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=113945"},"modified":"2021-08-09T08:01:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T08:01:49","slug":"nrl-reveals-chambers-sledging-prompted-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=113945","title":{"rendered":"NRL reveals Chambers&#039; sledging prompted probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NRL Head of Football Graham Annesley says the league was unable to determine whether Sharks centre Will Chambers crossed the line with on-field sledging after Warriors forward Kane Evans lashed out at the veteran.<\/p>\n<p>Chambers, during Cronulla&#x27;s loss to New Zealand, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/warriors-nathan-brown-on-kane-evans-will-chambers-battle\/1f492de5-22c9-420b-a2bf-e22647bf033e\" title=\"getting into a number of verbal exchanges with Warriors players\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">got into a number of verbal exchanges with Warriors players<\/a>, at one stage creating a flashpoint with <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/warriors-kane-evans-throws-punches-at-will-chambers-cronulla-sharks\/5ea97708-1770-4400-ad27-c626295a0c54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Kane Evans let his emotions get the better of him by lashing out at the Cronulla centre.\">Evans, who let his emotions get the better of him by<\/a> responding with two punches.<\/p>\n<p>Evans was sin binned as a result of his furious reaction.<\/p>\n<p>Annesley confirmed the NRL&#x27;s match review committee has since looked into the incident, but was unable to determine if Chambers had said anything that may have been considered a step too far.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;My understanding is the match review committee did monitor the referee&#x27;s audio for any comments that may or may not have been made and comments weren&#x27;t audible enough to be picked up by the on-field communication equipment,&quot; Annesley said.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6266908219001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/08\/373633\/pickerimage.jpg\" alt=\"Kane Evans goes to the bin for another shot on Will Chambers\" data-vms-id=\"ref:cks1g5ar4002m0hntl7u4up7q\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;My understanding is they could not determine anything that was said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I also looked and listened to the footage using the referee&#x27;s audio and I couldn&#x27;t hear anything either.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That&#x27;s not to say that nothing was said, it&#x27;s just nothing was picked up on the audio.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The match review committee can only deal with the incidents that they believe they have evidence to proceed with. There was nothing there they could find.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Annesley confirmed the NRL is prepared to sanction players who cross the line when it comes to on-field sledging.<\/p>\n<p>While the match review committee reviews all incidents of sledging, clubs are also encouraged to lodge any complaints in regard to verbal exchanges.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"ea587331-43b3-4ee8-8382-8c34fbcc9937\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ea587331-43b3-4ee8-8382-8c34fbcc9937\" alt=\"Kane Evans, Will Chambers\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;There is a role for the match review committee and NRL to get involved in those sorts of incidents where there is evidence or where the is a complaint that&#x27;s been lodged,&quot; Annesley added.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It would be ridiculous for me to sit here and suggest that the players should never say anything to each other.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But there is a line in the sand and they shouldn&#x27;t overstep that, and if they do then there are consequences.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>NRL Head of Football Graham Annesley says the league was unable to determine whether Sharks centre Will Chambers crossed the line with on-field sledging after <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=113945\" title=\"NRL reveals Chambers&#039; sledging prompted probe\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113947,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113945\/revisions\/113947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}