{"id":284398,"date":"2023-04-08T13:12:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T13:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=284398"},"modified":"2023-04-09T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T14:01:14","slug":"raiders-win-marred-by-guns-gruesome-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=284398","title":{"rendered":"Raiders win marred by gun's gruesome injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

A contentious penalty marred a courageous Canberra victory as the Raiders<\/a> upset the Broncos<\/a> 20-14 at Suncorp Stadium.<\/p>\n

The loss ends the Broncos' unbeaten run so far this season.<\/p>\n

A gruesome head injury to Jordan Rapana<\/a> put the brakes on a late comeback from the Broncos, as the incident left \ufeffthe winger bleeding heavily from a gash on his head.<\/p>\n

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\ufeffRapana was instrumental for the Raiders, scoring their opening two tries.<\/p>\n

Having earlier scored the Raiders' first two tries, the 33-year-old's night was ended with \ufeffjust under four minutes left to play after copping a stray knee to the head from Martin Taupau<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With a heavy stream of blood instantly flowing from Rapana's head, he was taken from the field – sitting up – on a medicab.<\/p>\n

\"Jordan<\/p>\n

Despite the collision appearing accidental, \ufeffTaupau was put on report and penalised.<\/p>\n

"Marty's hands are well above but he put his knees in a careless position and it was a careless action," referee \ufeffGrant Atkins explained to Broncos captain Adam Reynolds.<\/p>\n

Speaking post-match, Canberra coach Ricky Stuart<\/a> stressed that the action was unintentional.<\/p>\n

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"I feel sorry for \ufeffMarty Taupau – it was an accident. He didn't mean to do that," Stuart told the media.<\/p>\n

Expressing no ill feelings towards Taupau, Stuart said \ufeffthe veteran prop sought out Rapana after the game to check on his wellbeing.<\/p>\n

"[Taupau] came looking for Jordy and spoke to his parents which is really nice of him," he said.<\/p>\n

"It was an unfortunate collision. These accidents happen in these games."\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"NRL<\/p>\n

Stuart hoped Taupau would not be suspended but said it was likely a groggy Rapana would likely miss next week's game with a concussion.\ufeff<\/p>\n

In the Fox Sports commentary box, Steve Roach was immediately incensed by the call, but Corey Parker was in support.<\/p>\n

"There's nothing [Taupau] could have done. It's completely accidental," Roach said.<\/p>\n

Parker argued: "It's the careless nature of the challenge that is seeing Jordan Rapana leave the field, so the penalty is sufficient."<\/p>\n

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A contentious penalty marred a courageous Canberra victory as the Raiders upset the Broncos 20-14 at Suncorp Stadium. The loss ends the Broncos' unbeaten run […]<\/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\/284398"}],"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=284398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284400,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284398\/revisions\/284400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}