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Hudson Young’s sin bin creates controversy after latest NRL crackdown
Nicholas Quinlan • April 4th, 2025 9:52 am
The NRL’s crackdown on head contact tackles has begun with Canberra’s Hudson Young being placed in the sin bin in Thursday night’s game against the Cronulla Sharks.
Young was sin-binned and placed on report in the second half for a tackle on Cameron McInnes that resulted in head contact.
This comes after NRL head of football, Graham Annesley sent an email out to all 17 clubs last week that there would be a sin-bin crackdown on players who make contact with another player’s head during a tackle.
Speaking on SEN 1170’s Breakfast, Greg Alexander believes that Young may have been hard done by to have been sent to the bin.
“Sin-binning of Hudson Young… hmmm questionable,” said Alexander.
“I thought I saw a tackle in the first half - I can’t remember exactly who it was - and I went okay, the new rule, I thought, there’s got to be a reaction here.
“Hudson Young was almost like, well hang on, we (the referees) might have missed one in the first half.
“It was the quota system and Hudson Young just happened to be the bloke that copped it in the neck from Ashley Klein.”
Co-host Andrew Voss also felt that Young was unlucky to be sin-binned believing that the initial contact was made with the shoulder before touching McInnes' head.
“I just watched the Hudson Young sin-binning last night and we are in crisis,” said Voss.
“Because there was no force in it, there is no force in it at all.
“Cameron McInnes just did a little prop off the leg and copped a right shoulder into face and off to the sin bin.
“Yeah, I don’t know. I had it less than borderline.”
In the press conference, Raiders coach Ricky Stuart admitted too that he was still confused about what was considered a sin bin after last night’s game.
The Raiders will head to Darwin next Saturday night to play the Eels.
