{"id":298808,"date":"2023-05-21T07:40:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T07:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=298808"},"modified":"2023-05-21T09:58:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T09:58:32","slug":"maroons-nervous-wait-over-tino-forearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=298808","title":{"rendered":"Maroons' nervous wait over Tino forearm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maroons<\/a> selectors are sweating after Titans<\/a> enforcer Tino Fa'asuamaleaui appeared to raise a forearm into the face of Bulldogs<\/a> hooker Reed Mahoney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fa'asuamaleaui surprisingly went unpunished by both referee Chris Butler and the Bunker for the contact, which occurred midway through the first half of the Titans' 20-18 loss to the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n

Mahoney – who had moments earlier been put on report for a hip-drop tackle – was forced from the field for a HIA, which he fortunately passed.<\/p>\n

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In commentary for Fox Sports, league great Shane Flanagan was shocked that Fa'asuamaleaui wasn't punished, but suggested the Match Review Committee might still get involved.<\/p>\n

\"Tino<\/p>\n

"The forearm straight into the face of Reed Mahoney from Tino. You can't do that," he said.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"We're going to hear more about this."\ufeff<\/p>\n

Speaking post-game, Fa'asuamaleaui defended the act – blaming the contact in part on the vast size difference between the pair.<\/p>\n

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"It's a contact sport. Obviously, I'm running as fast as I can and Reed is getting off the line as fast as he can," he said.<\/p>\n

"He's half my size so obviously it's going to be hard not to get away with a shoulder or whatever is in front of his face.<\/p>\n

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"I'm just glad that he got back on the field alright."<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, Mahoney believed the hit "probably looked a lot worse than it was".<\/p>\n

\"NRL<\/p>\n

"Big Tino was just trying to get his team forward. It looked like his elbow hit my jaw but I don't think there was anything in it – there was no intent of him trying to target my head," he said post-match.<\/p>\n

"It was probably more my fault than his fault so I don't think there was anything wrong with it, he should get off."<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs trailed for the first 77 minutes of the clash before Jayden Okunbor scored after a brilliant scrambling effort from the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n

Matt Burton was in form in live play as two of his bombs led directly to tries, while another of his kicks led to Okunbor's match-winner.<\/p>\n

The win lifts them off the bottom of the ladder, relegating the Dragons to last on for-and-against, despite their win over the Roosters on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Maroons selectors are sweating after Titans enforcer Tino Fa'asuamaleaui appeared to raise a forearm into the face of Bulldogs hooker Reed Mahoney. Fa'asuamaleaui surprisingly went […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298810,"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\/298808"}],"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=298808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298811,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298808\/revisions\/298811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/298810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}