Sport

Cleary breaks his leg, then 12-man Newcastle break Penrith’s heart

Brisbane Times Christian Nicolussi

27 Sept 2026 18:33 AEST Summary

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From the report

Newcastle are through to their first grand final in 25 years after causing one of the great September boilovers,

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of australian sports stadium, used to illustrate it. AFL - Kangaroos vs Magpies Christian Haugen / flickr, CC BY

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of australian sports stadium, used to illustrate it. AFL - Kangaroos vs Magpies Christian Haugen / flickr, CC BY

This is a summary. The indicators are not. The scores were measured over this summary alone, which is less of the article than we would like and makes them less certain.

Indicators

Niral Score 8.9 mundaneloaded

Highlighted in the text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

No word appears twice.

Sourcing 42 unattributednamed sources Mood 50 sorrowjoyful

6 read zero: sentiment, political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Sentiment 0 hostilefavourable Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

Measurements of how this article is written, not of whether it is correct. How each one is measured.

Measured on Brisbane Times’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

How outlets headlined it

Each outlet's own headline. ~~Struck through~~: the loaded words our version leaves out. Plainest first.

Brisbane Times Cleary breaks his leg, then 12-man Newcastle break Penrith’s heart plain
ABC News (Sport) Twelve-man Newcastle through to grand final after Cleary's ~~horrific~~ leg break 1 change

How each outlet filed it

Also covered by WAtoday, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Happiness
Brisbane Timesas they published this story	8.9	1	42	0	50
ABC News (Sport)	13.1	7	0	0.1	51.5

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The same event elsewhere

4 other outlets filed this story. The scoreboard above is what they did differently.

ABC News (Sport) Twelve-man Newcastle through to grand final after Cleary's leg break Niral 13.1 political 0 WAtoday Cleary breaks his leg, then 12-man Newcastle break Penrith’s heart Niral 8.9 political 0 The Age Cleary breaks his leg, then 12-man Newcastle break Penrith’s heart Niral 8.9 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Cleary breaks his leg, then 12-man Newcastle break Penrith’s heart Niral 8.9 political 0