Sport / Newcastle, NSW

Crossland to miss NRL GF with four-game ban for Cleary tackle

ABC News Myles Houlbrook-Walk and Dean Bilton

29 Sept 2026 19:40 AEST Summary

NRL Rugby League Sport

Changed after publishing · 1 edit

29 Sept 2026 20:30 AEST the headline was changed: ~~Breaking:~~ Crossland to miss NRL GF with four-game ban for Cleary tackle

Outlets edit stories after they go out, usually without saying so. We keep what we saw the first time.

From the report

Newcastle Knights hooker Phoenix Crossland has been suspended for four games by the NRL judiciary for the tackle that left Penrith's Nathan Cleary with a broken leg.

How outlets headlined it

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

ABC News Crossland to miss NRL GF with four-game ban for Cleary tackle plain
Brisbane Times ‘Worst couple of days of my life’: Crossland cops four-match ban for Cleary tackle plain

Headline check

All two things this headline claims are in the report.

Figures, names and quoted words in the headline, looked for in the report itself — not in the summary above. How this is checked

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How it is written

Niral Score 10.2 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, jingoistic and 2 more and 4 at zero

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tackle5final4judiciary4grand3life3ban2best2debut2four-game2game2miss2player2reached2sent2towards2

Sentiment +0.0 hostilefavourable Jingoistic 1 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Sourcing 59 unattributednamed sources Mood 50.4 sorrowjoyful

4 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Religious 0 not invokedovert

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

How this outlet filed it, and how we rewrote it

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Outlet	Niral Score
ABC Newsas they published this story	10.2

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The same event elsewhere

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

Brisbane Times ‘Worst couple of days of my life’: Crossland cops four-match ban for Cleary tackle Niral 6.8 · calm political 0 The Age ‘Worst couple of days of my life’: Crossland cops four-match ban for Cleary tackle Niral 6.8 · calm political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald ‘Worst couple of days of my life’: Crossland cops four-match ban for Cleary tackle Niral 6.8 · calm political 0 WAtoday ‘Worst couple of days of my life’: Crossland cops four-match ban for Cleary tackle Niral 6.8 · calm political 0