Jared Waerea-Hargreaves will have to beat a tripping charge to play in the Sydney Roosters’ NRL preliminary final after his bad record came back to haunt him.
Waerea-Hargreaves was on Saturday morning charged with the offence despite not being penalised on the field for an apparent trip on South Sydney’s James Roberts.
Souths players immediately complained about the act late in the 30-6 loss, after Waerea-Hargreaves appeared to raise his leg and make contact with Roberts.
The Roosters prop was charged with a grade-one trip, which will see him miss one match regardless of whether he pleads guilty or fights it at the judiciary and loses.
Waerea-Hargreaves would normally have been able to accept a fine for the charge, however he is ineligible for such a punishment after too many previous convictions this year.
It’s expected Waerea-Hargreaves will fight the latest charge given he has nothing to lose, and insisted after the match he had not attempted to trip Roberts.
“Not at all. I think he’s a bit fast in the middle there,” the Roosters prop told Triple M.
“I think I slipped. It’s all good.”
The 30-year-old had to overcome a high tackle charge to even play in Friday’s match, which also would have only attracted a fine if not for his previous convictions.
He was one of the Roosters’ best on Friday night, topping 100 metres in his opening stint and helping the Tricolours to an early 16-0 lead.
Roosters coach Trent Robinson claimed on Friday night the incident already risked becoming a trial by media.
“I just walked past and I saw the trial by media already happening,” Robinson said post-match.
“I saw someone looking at a phone and Channel Nine playing it over and over and over again. That was as much as I’ve seen.
“That’s where we’re at. I don’t think my opinion (will matter). The speed of play and all of that. My opinion is not going to count if we’ve already started doing all that.”
The maximum-convictions rule also controversially ruled South Sydney captain Sam Burgess out of Friday’s match for a hair pull the previous week.
Duncan Smith
Roar Guru
No Hargreaves vs the Storm in two weeks? I like :stoked:
Watda
Guest
Big Jaz knows how important it is to get Jake on the field.. another selfless act big fella here’s cheers to you :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Doc79
Roar Rookie
This is not the place I come to for the trivialities of english grammar. I'll stick to lecturing my 5 year old. Most of the time I get what OP is getting at and move on. In this instance, just quietly, I reckon 'writ' is spot on in the context it is used.
Doc79
Roar Rookie
'...which also would have only attracted a fine if not for his previous convictions.' This is where the standard of discipline has slowly eroded to. All the hoo-har about eye gouging in the past 3 months is a result of the judiciary becoming soft on these acts over an extended period of time. Now a trip is, out of hand, waved away as simply a fine barring a previous bad record. My memory is good but it seems that not that long ago a trip was sacrilege and you're automatically sat down for a minimum of 3 weeks. Please feel free to refresh me if I'm wrong.
DP Schaefer
Roar Rookie
The worry is that if he can get off for a swinging arm which knocks a guy out and brings all kinds of claret AND an obvious & deliberate head butt then this might be a work in the park. Chooks apparently have people in the MRC as well.
Forty Twenty
Roar Rookie
JWH's run of bad luck and accidents can't keep going much longer surely? It's a pity it's out of his control.
souvalis
Roar Rookie
@ red rooster Isn’t the (simple ) past tense of write, wrote..and the past participle of write, written ?
Larry1950
Guest
Con, love the use of the old classic terms. I think the quote was a bit highbrow for Red Rooster, might not have read the Omar Khayyam classic at rooster school. "The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on....."
Larry1950
Guest
A trip's a trip, whether he got wrong-footed or not so surely he can't get out of this one. Just on the cases where fighting it at the judiciary doesn't cost you any more weeks so players are inclined to have a crack, how about an additional fine or points loading for frivolous cases to retain the integrity of the system. Jockeys can cop a fine for a frivolous protest, so let's hit the guilty player where it hurts.
Succhi
Roar Rookie
Did he get penalised?
mushi
Roar Guru
Bottom rung fast food chicken chain, even worse grammar pedant.
Nick
Roar Guru
Red rooster... you just got owned.
Tom G
Roar Rookie
Bingo
Con Scortis
Roar Guru
Hi Tom G, don't you just love it when a smart ar.e gets it wrong. Stick to making roast chicken, Red Rooster. Writ is an archaic form of ‘written’. So one can understand the idiom writ large as something written largely or magnified. However, it should always be in reference to a specific noun, used after said noun as an appositive, and not as a verbal phrase (e.g., is writ large). It does not require the use of commas. Can also be used in the forms writ larger and writ largest.
Hard Yards
Roar Rookie
Just a really dumb thing for him to do. He’s supposed to be a professional. Terrible judgment.
Aw
Guest
Why he was stupid enough to trip him, I will never know. Roosters will still win the prelim without him
Max
Guest
How about what looked like an eye gouge only moments before? Why has that not been looked at by match review committee?
Red Rooster
Guest
I think you mean "written" which is the past tense of "write". A "writ" is a legal document. Glad to be able to help you.
Tom G
Roar Rookie
After his let off just last week this is Karma writ large. Pity is that he had his best game in years last night.
Nick
Roar Guru
Cue the brain-dead Phil Gould losing it that a repeat offender will finally get a week on the sidelines...