http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/manly-sea-eagles-coach-geoff-tooveys-frustration-comes-to-a-head/story-fni3gnk1-1226707774176
Manly Sea Eagles coach geoff Tooveys frustration comes to a head
PAUL CRAWLEY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AUGUST 31
TWO weeks on from Geoff Toovey's post-match blow-up in Gosford and the significance of the coach's frustrations will come to a head on Saturday night when Manly run out against Melbourne at Brookvale.
While the NRL is still debating the merits of Manly's appeal into the $10,000 breach notice served after the loss to Souths,
there is no longer any questions about the relevance of Toovey's complaints.
Anthony Watmough won't play on Saturday as a direct result of new damage to his injured knee suffered in that ugly Jeff Lima leg-twist tackle, that resulted in a one-game ban to Lima. While the Sea Eagles are still without a top four scalp courtesy of the Steve Matai's no-try ruling that cost Manly the game.
Referees boss Daniel Anderson has argued that his video refs got the call right on the Matai no-try because there was no conclusive proof to overturn on-field referee's decision that Matai was held up.
But that is not to say Anderson is right because almost everyone in rugby league agrees that the rule needs to change and it was the interpretation Toovey was complaining about when he said "there needs to be an investigation".
Manly sent an appeal directly to Dave Smith on Tuesday arguing reasons why Toovey's fine should be suspended.
As they rightly point out,
Toovey never questioned the integrity of the match officials, like other coaches have done this year, but was sanctioned purely because of the way he went about "expressing himself".
It's worth pointing out that when the NRL was asked on Friday where the matter was at we were
initially told they hadn't received Manly’s appeal, until it was discovered the email hadn't made it from Smith to Todd Greenberg:huh:, who expressed the initial outrage that Toovey was out of line.
It seems sanctioning Toovey's passion is no longer at the top of the NRL's to-do list, even if the potential of the fine remains.
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