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KNIGHTS FINE JACOB SAIFITI OVER PUB FIGHT

Newcastle Knights player Jacob Saifiti has been fined by the club, over last month’s fight outside a Hamilton pub.

It’s understood the frontrower has been slugged $50,000 – with half of which being suspended, pending a number of conditions.

Saifiti broke his leg in the incident.

A 28-year-old man has been charged, and is due to face court next week.

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Tyson Cottrill is a senior reporter and newsreader for Nine NBN News, based in Newcastle. As the Chief Court Reporter, Tyson has covered some of the biggest court cases from across the Hunter and northern New South Wales. Tyson started with the Nine Network in 2007 and has worked in newsrooms in Sydney, the Gold Coast, and Brisbane. A proud Novocastrian, Tyson has spent the majority of his journalism career reporting on the stories that matter in his hometown. Tyson has a Bachelor of Communications from Charles Sturt University.

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