{"id":59632,"date":"2021-04-18T09:59:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T09:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=59632"},"modified":"2021-04-18T10:56:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T10:56:55","slug":"bulldog-sent-for-ugly-high-shot-on-star-fullback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=59632","title":{"rendered":"Bulldog sent for ugly high shot on star fullback"},"content":{"rendered":"

It took a 55th-minute send-off to wake up the Cowboys and Bulldogs<\/a>, as Jack Hetherington was giving his marching orders for an ugly high shot on Valentine Holmes.<\/p>\n

With the Cowboys leading 12-6, Hetherington came rushing out of the line to meet a steaming Holmes but was wrongfooted by the Cowboy, left to throw out a wild arm that caught the fullback flush around the neck.<\/p>\n

The brutal clothesline sent Holmes crashing to the ground and invited an almighty scuffle as both sides raced into the fray.<\/p>\n

"He may as well punch here, he's going to be gone for a couple of weeks," NSW Blues coach Brad Fittler said in commentary.<\/p>\n

\"Hetherington<\/p>\n

"That's a bad shot," added league legend Peter Sterling.<\/p>\n

Hetherington didn't have much to argue as he was sent directly from the field by referee Ashley Klein.<\/p>\n

He'll undoubtedly be facing a lengthy ban yet to be handed down by the match review committee.<\/p>\n

The hit was a turning point in the match which up until that point had been slammed by pundits, including league great Peter Sterling, for its dull, sloppy play.<\/p>\n

\"NRL<\/p>\n

Adding to the flat atmosphere have been a host of stoppages, in particular a Bulldogs captain's challenge that saw the match held up for nearly four-minutes to determine whether Kyle Flanagan had knocked on a ball.<\/p>\n

"The crowd love it, too..not," joked Sterling in commentary.<\/p>\n

"The error count is higher than the scoreline."<\/p>\n

But Hetherington's send off saw both teams swing for the fence as unstructured play sparked a frenzied final 20-minutes that saw the Bulldogs push the Cowboys to the final whistle, but eventually fall flat 30-18.<\/p>\n

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":"

It took a 55th-minute send-off to wake up the Cowboys and Bulldogs, as Jack Hetherington was giving his marching orders for an ugly high shot […]<\/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\/59632"}],"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=59632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59634,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59632\/revisions\/59634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}