Jared Waerea-Hargreaves pleads guilty, set for NRL farewell

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Roosters veteran Jared Waerea-Hargreaves has taken an early guilty plea for a high tackle. (Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS)
Roosters veteran Jared Waerea-Hargreaves has taken an early guilty plea for a high tackle. (Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS) Credit: AAP

Sydney Roosters veteran Jared Waerea-Hargreaves looks to have guaranteed himself an NRL farewell game by taking the early guilty plea for his high tackle on Gold Coast’s Sam Verrills.

The Super League-bound prop’s judiciary record meant he received a three-match ban for the tackle that landed him in the sin bin during Sunday’s 48-22 win, his first game back from another ban.

Had Waerea-Hargreaves unsuccessfully fought the charge, as he did his last suspension, the ban would have increased to four games and extended to the Roosters’ second game of the NRL finals.

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The Roosters are all but guaranteed to finish in the top four given their superior for-and-against and favourable run home in the final two rounds of the regular season.

That means Easts are set to play at least two finals games, with Waerea-Hargreaves’ early guilty plea confirming he will be free for the second of those.

The game could be the last in the red, white and blue for the 35-year-old, who broke the record for the most Roosters games earlier this season. He will join Hull KR next year.

Elsewhere, Cronulla centre Jesse Ramien has accepted a one-game ban for his high tackle on St George Illawarra’s Mat Feagai and will miss Saturday’s clash with the Warriors.

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