{"id":68341,"date":"2021-05-07T04:52:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T04:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=68341"},"modified":"2021-05-07T07:01:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T07:01:31","slug":"storm-gun-facing-ban-for-shoulder-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=68341","title":{"rendered":"Storm gun facing ban for shoulder charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Storm hooker Brandon Smith is facing up to a fortnight on the sideline after being charged by the match review committee over a shoulder charge on Damien Cook <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/live-scores-2021-south-sydney-rabbitohs-vs-melbourne-storm-start-time-results-news-round-nine\/df8d5201-cfba-4030-a77d-ff3f801ad5f3\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"in last night&#x27;s 50-0 win\">in last night&#x27;s 50-0 win<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smith received a grade-one charge for the 46th-minute incident and will miss the Storm&#x27;s Magic Round clash with the Dragons with an early guilty plea. If he challenges the charge at the judiciary and fails he will cop a two-match ban, which would also rule him out of the following week&#x27;s game against the Raiders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2021-south-sydney-rabbitohs-melbourne-storm-wayne-bennett-admission-loss\/6c7a16cc-c771-46f5-9c86-638522da628f\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Rabbitohs coach Wayne Bennett reveals he had seen heavy defeat looming\">Rabbitohs coach Wayne Bennett reveals he had seen heavy defeat looming<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred as Cook took a darting run on the right edge, before the NSW Blues hooker linked with bench forward Jed Cartwright and was hammered by Smith.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"f5cba2dc-ffbf-4f95-8b13-cf862cf02d00\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/f5cba2dc-ffbf-4f95-8b13-cf862cf02d00\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In better news for Storm fans, back-rower Felise Kaufusi escaped with a fine after copping a dangerous contact charge for a tackle on Rabbitohs star Cody Walker in the seventh minute.<\/p>\n<p>Kaufusi will be fined $1700 if he takes an early guilty plea but $2250 if he challenges and is unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>The Queensland Maroons enforcer caught Walker high as the star Rabbitoh ran the footy out of trouble.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6252894431001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/05\/357277\/pickerImage.jpg\" alt=\"NRL Highlights: The Storm demolish an undermanned Rabbitohs squad - Round 9\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckocuejq4000j0go6oyq3llms\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Melbourne Storm hooker Brandon Smith is facing up to a fortnight on the sideline after being charged by the match review committee over a shoulder <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=68341\" title=\"Storm gun facing ban for shoulder charge\">[&#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\/68341"}],"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=68341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68343,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68341\/revisions\/68343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}