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Mid-season Roosters recruit Nathan Brown was sensationally sent off within 30 seconds of being substituted into his side’s clash with the Manly Sea Eagles on Thursday night.
The Roosters celebrated the 10th anniversary of their 2013 NRL title victory with a 26-16 win at the SCG, but the night was soured when Brown was sent off for clobbering Ben Trbojevic with a high shot just after the hour mark.
The former NSW Blues enforcer exploded out of the line to make what turned out to be his only tackle of the match.
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When Ashley Klein decided against sin-binning him and went a step further, sending him off for the remainder of the match, Roosters skipper James Tedesco unleashed.
“What?! Send-off?!” shouted an astonished Tedesco.
“Sir, that’s not a send-off.
“F—ing hell.”
Klein explained his decision as boos reverberated throughout the Moore Park venue.
“The issue is you’ve run out of the line with intent there, you’ve left the ground, you’re off,” Klein said to Brown.
“It’s a sin-bin, I don’t see it as a send-off,” Andrew Johns said on the Nine broadcast.
Brad Fittler added his two cents.
“Well he also mentioned coming off the ground,” said the Roosters legend on the Nine coverage.
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“As you can see, as he comes up, coming into contact, that’s where he whacks him in the neck, or in the chin.”
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As Tedesco and Roosters firebrand Lindsay Collins towered over Klein and blasted him, Manly captain Daly Cherry-Evans butted in and told the infuriated Tricolours duo to shoo off.
“Get out of here!” Cherry-Evans quipped.
Manly’s loss was compounded by an injury suffered by mid-season recruit Matt Lodge, who twisted his right knee in a tackle in the eighth minute. The former Roosters prop left the field and didn’t return.
The Roosters kept their slim finals hopes alive in the round 23 win, elevating themselves to 12th position, and 24 points, after the first game of the round.
As the ladder stands with seven games remaining in the round, the Roosters are one win behind the sixth-placed Rabbitohs, seventh-placed Sharks and eighth-placed Cowboys.
Daniel Tupou snared two tries in the Roosters’ win over the Sea Eagles.
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