{"id":94017,"date":"2021-07-01T20:51:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T20:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=94017"},"modified":"2021-07-02T00:57:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T00:57:12","slug":"roosters-slam-careless-attack-on-young-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=94017","title":{"rendered":"Roosters slam &#039;careless&#039; attack on young star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/sam-walker-roosters-battered-clobbered-hit-physical-phil-gould-andrew-johns\/99c4b955-880c-41b5-a628-6b72ab1c2a6d\" title=\"Trent Robinson took aim at &#x27;careless&#x27; challenge on star Sam Walker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Trent Robinson took aim at a &#x27;careless&#x27; challenge on star Sam Walker<\/a> that led to a scuffle on the field during <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/live-scores-2021-sydney-roosters-vs-melbourne-storm-start-time-results-news-round-16\/8936eb1f-8043-4492-a671-4b9393eae04a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"the Storm&#x27;s 46-0 drubbing of the Roosters\">the Storm&#x27;s 46-0 drubbing of the Roosters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Storm&#x27;s Maroons star Christian Welch escaped sanction but could be in a bit trouble after a clash of heads with Walker.<\/p>\n<p>As Walker put boot to ball in the second half, Welch charged in to make contact but his head clashed with the teenager&#x27;s. Regardless of the accidental nature, several other similar incidents have been dealt with harshly.<\/p>\n<p>The tackle sparked a fracas when James Tedesco shoved Storm players after a replay of the incident was shown on the big screen. During the exchange Jared Waerea-Hargreaves threw Felise Kaufusi to the ground. However, Welch and Waerea-Hargreaves went unpunished on the field.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson was clearly upset about the inconsistency over calls.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6261868571001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/07\/367441\/pickerImage.jpg\" alt=\"NRL Highlights: The Storm roll through the Roosters with ease in Newcastle - Round 16\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckqkveu7p000g0hpoqrohlm50\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I didn&#x27;t like that challenge,&quot; Robinson said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He kicked the ball and got hit in the head after he kicked the ball.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m sick of talking about Roosters players and head contact, I&#x27;m sick of talking about it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne on the other hand became the first team to score 40 points in 10 games in one season.<\/p>\n<p>They are also averaging a mammoth 36.5 points per game, the most of any team in the NRL era.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve been around too long to be saying that it&#x27;s a two-horse race at this time of the year,&quot; Bellamy said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There&#x27;s a lot of things are going to happen between now and the end of the year until the finals time.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Some things are going to help some teams and some things are going to hinder some teams.&quot;<\/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>\u00a0<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>Trent Robinson took aim at a &#x27;careless&#x27; challenge on star Sam Walker that led to a scuffle on the field during the Storm&#x27;s 46-0 drubbing <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=94017\" title=\"Roosters slam &#039;careless&#039; attack on young star\">[&#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\/94017"}],"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=94017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94019,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94017\/revisions\/94019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}