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Saints score late and survive controversial call to down Manly 12-10
Michael Carayannis, The Daily Telegraph
Manly captain Daly Cherry-Evans blasted referee David Munro while coach Des Hasler says he does not know the escort rule is now after the Dragons came from behind to beat the Sea Eagles 12-10.
Cherry-Evans was furious his side didn’t receive a penalty for an escort play when the Dragons’ Tim Lafai got in the way of Reuben Garrick as the Sea Eagle ran towards a high kick from the halfback in the final play of the game.
“I need to ask the question because that is black and white, that is an escorted player taken off the ball,’’ Cherry-Evans told Munro.
“If you’re willing to make the hard call when the game wasn’t on the line then unfortunately then that call needed to be made by you.’’
After the game Cherry-Evans said “we wanted that call to be made”.
“We are a bit biased and thought it was a black and white call,” Cherry-Evans said. “They saw it the other way. That’s the way footy games go. We just have to suck it up and move on to next week.”
Just minutes earlier the video referee had intervened to rule a penalty for the Dragons when Brad Parker tripped Euan Aitken on a kick chase. Hasler said he had spoken with NRL officials last week regarding the rules of defenders interfering with attacking players during a kick chase,
But the failure to penalise St George Illawarra left him confused.
“I will be taking that to Bernie Sutton,” Hasler said. “I thought it was questionable. It’s not consistent with what they were saying. They spoke to us about it during the week… but they won’t rule on an escort there.”
Saints score late and survive controversial call to down Manly 12-10
Michael Carayannis, The Daily Telegraph
Manly captain Daly Cherry-Evans blasted referee David Munro while coach Des Hasler says he does not know the escort rule is now after the Dragons came from behind to beat the Sea Eagles 12-10.
Cherry-Evans was furious his side didn’t receive a penalty for an escort play when the Dragons’ Tim Lafai got in the way of Reuben Garrick as the Sea Eagle ran towards a high kick from the halfback in the final play of the game.
“I need to ask the question because that is black and white, that is an escorted player taken off the ball,’’ Cherry-Evans told Munro.
“If you’re willing to make the hard call when the game wasn’t on the line then unfortunately then that call needed to be made by you.’’
After the game Cherry-Evans said “we wanted that call to be made”.
“We are a bit biased and thought it was a black and white call,” Cherry-Evans said. “They saw it the other way. That’s the way footy games go. We just have to suck it up and move on to next week.”
Just minutes earlier the video referee had intervened to rule a penalty for the Dragons when Brad Parker tripped Euan Aitken on a kick chase. Hasler said he had spoken with NRL officials last week regarding the rules of defenders interfering with attacking players during a kick chase,
But the failure to penalise St George Illawarra left him confused.
“I will be taking that to Bernie Sutton,” Hasler said. “I thought it was questionable. It’s not consistent with what they were saying. They spoke to us about it during the week… but they won’t rule on an escort there.”