{"id":400899,"date":"2024-06-07T23:26:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T23:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=400899"},"modified":"2024-06-08T01:05:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T01:05:24","slug":"dragons-winger-sent-off-for-referee-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=400899","title":{"rendered":"Dragons winger sent off for referee abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/st-george-illawarra-dragons\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"St George-Illawarra\">St George-Illawarra<\/a> winger Mikaele Ravalawa apologised after he was sent off for dissent n the dying stages of a NSW Cup match on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>A sorry Ravalawa will face the NSW Rugby League judiciary after being marched for calling a match official a &quot;c&#8212;&quot; after the Eels were awarded the winning try with just two minutes left at WIN Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/dragons-winger-ravalawa-sent-off-for-using-slur-against-referee-20240608-p5jk8d.html\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"The Sydney Morning Herald\">The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>,\ufeff Ravalawa swore and used the term &quot;c&#8212;&quot; in frustration when addressing the touch judge.<\/p>\n<p>The Dragons\ufeff protested with the referee the ball had been knocked on following a high kick before Matt Doorey scored for Parramatta to win the match.<\/p>\n<p>After their pleas were ignored, the winger walked up to the touch judge and made the comment, according to the publication.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"83b78d48-0cad-4e4f-b2b5-cf62865a53cc\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/83b78d48-0cad-4e4f-b2b5-cf62865a53cc\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"4361\" data-height=\"2907\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sideline official then told the referee, which prompted Ravalawa&#x27;s send-off.<\/p>\n<p>The Fijian international said he visited the match officials after the game.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I apologised after the game,&quot; Ravalawa said. &quot;It was not professional and I&#x27;m sorry.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The referee will table a report to the NSWRL on Monday which will precede Ravalawa being charged, with the Fijian international facing a lengthy suspension.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old lost his place in Shane Flanagan&#x27;s NRL side last week and was playing his second NSW Cup match for the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>St George-Illawarra winger Mikaele Ravalawa apologised after he was sent off for dissent n the dying stages of a NSW Cup match on Friday night. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=400899\" title=\"Dragons winger sent off for referee abuse\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":400901,"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\/400899"}],"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=400899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400902,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400899\/revisions\/400902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/400901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}