Dragons interim coach Ryan Carr has blasted the officers for a controversial choice to disallow a second half attempt to St George playmaker Junior Amone in his facet’s 26-20 loss to the Eels.
Amone scooped up a free ball and crossed to attain below the posts, however the Bunker dominated Dragons hooker Jacob Liddle misplaced the ball. If awarded, the Dragons would have led 26-10.
The controversy was that Eels fullback Clint Gutherson had his hand on the soccer within the course of of constructing a deal with on Liddle, however the Bunker dominated that regardless of this, it was a free carry from the Dragons hooker and never a strip from Gutherson.
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The choice resulted in a momentum shift in the direction of the Eels, who have been trailing 20-10 on the time after which scored the subsequent three tries to win the sport.
Carr wasn’t positive whether or not to snort or cry, difficult the officers be held accountable and face “questions” from the media.
“Sorry I’m trying not to laugh. I don’t want to blow up and start a controversy because I’m sick of talking about but maybe they (referees) have to come down and answer you guys,” Carr mentioned.
“I have to do a press conference and you ask me but I don’t know the answer so maybe they should answer the questions for you so everyone in the whole world can understand why that wasn’t a try.
“You google strip and it’s hand on the ball, strips on the ball and it’s play on. It’s a try every day of the week.
“It’s a much different game (if it’s a try). They are a good team Parramatta and they were never going to go away but we deserved to score that try.
“It was good footy, we made a good line break and we deserved to score that try. The players are in the (dressing room) saying sorry to me but they don’t have to be sorry about anything.”
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Fox League’s Matt Russell then requested Carr if he wish to add on the incident in anticipation of NRL head of soccer Graham Annesley’s weekly briefing on Monday.
“Not really, like I said maybe get them to come down and get the people who ruled it no try to come here and sit here where I’m sitting and answer these questions because I’m trying to answer it and I don’t have the answer,” Carr mentioned.
“I know everyone agrees with me. The whole world so it’s not like I have one red eye and one white eye and I’m trying to make it all about us but it’s a try.
“It’s so disheartening for the players to have to go through it again. They are frustrated, they are confused.
“There are things late in that game, and I won’t go into detail, but we didn’t get a penalty since the 29th minute in that game. That was our last penalty.
“I could go into details of incidents in the game but out of the respect for the opposition, I won’t do it.”
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Carr was requested if lower-ranked groups had unhealthy luck with referring selections, however the interim coach wasn’t eager to say an excessive amount of.
“That’s a dangerous line that one. I’m not going to buy into it, I have my own opinions on it,” Carr mentioned.
“I don’t know what the outcome would have been (if try wasn’t disallowed), but obviously we lost by six so I think that helps.”
Despite the loss, Carr couldn’t have been happier with the hassle of his facet.
“Our effort was one of the best efforts from a team that I’ve ever seen to be honest with you. We lost (prop) Frank Molo in the first set (HIA) so some of our players had to play massive minutes. It throws everything out of whack when you lose a forward there.
“I thought we were super brave, tough, resilient. I know the scoreboard doesn’t show it but we deserved to win.”
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