Head of soccer Graham Annesley says there was no breach of the foundations that noticed Manly’s Reuben Garrick land closely on his again after he was tackled within the air, however the NRL will contemplate tweaking the foundations on the finish of the season after officers have been referred to as out by Sea Eagles coach Anthony Seibold.
Garrick went as much as catch a discipline purpose try that had been charged down when he was caught within the air by Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad, with the influence forcing him to land closely and lose the ball within the course of.
Tackling gamers within the air is an automated penalty if the ball hasn’t bounced, however the guidelines state that it’s play on if the ball has already made contact with the bottom.
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It was an important name with scores locked at 22-all with the Sea Eagles set to have a penalty kick from in entrance with eight minutes to go that may have saved their finals hopes alive.
Instead, the Warriors received the ball and scored a minute later when Marata Niukore made a break and ran round Garrick who was too sore to maintain up.
Manly coach Anthony Seibold was extremely crucial of the no-call within the wake of the sport however Annesley mentioned on Monday he didn’t suppose the sort out was harmful sufficient to warrant a penalty regardless that one other NRL official reportedly advised the Sea Eagles that they thought the contact warranted additional motion.
“It’s a subjective decision. He lands on his back. There are players who are tackled and land on their back in a whole range of situations, or land awkwardly,” Annesley mentioned.
“Injury alone is not a determination of whether the rules have been breached or not.
“(Players) can get injured in legitimate tackles, so you have to look at this particular situation and look at the circumstances. Was there any lack of care taken by Nicoll-Klokstad? I don’t think there was.”
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Annesley mentioned the NRL would have a look at altering the rule after they reviewed it on the finish of the 12 months, however warned that any tweaks must be fastidiously analysed to verify they didn’t have an effect on different areas of the sport.
“We have to make sure there are no unintended consequences of a rule change,” he mentioned.
“We have to change the rule in a way that is not going to inhibit some of these fantastic tries or punish players that are trying to stop these tries.
“We’ll review all the rules and if there is a way of making the game safer, we have always defaulted to that.
“(But) under the existing rule, there was no requirement on the referees to form a view that that was a breach of the rules.
“There was no high tackle, there was no late contact. He wasn’t early, he didn’t get to him before he had possession of the ball. So which rule has he breached?”
Annesley additionally ticked off a attempt to Newcastle halfback Adam Clune when the ball ricocheted off referee Grant Atkins within the in-goal, however owned as much as a significant error by the officers that noticed the Knights rating on the eighth sort out of a set.
The sport was within the steadiness at 12-4 when Daniel Saifiti scored off a kick, however solely after the Knights got eight tackles following a significant miss the officers who forgot the depend after back-to-back play the balls in a messy scramble close to the road.
It’s not the primary time a botched sort out depend has led to a do this season after the Dragons have been gifted 4 factors towards the Dolphins which led to the NRL promising to place issues in place to make sure the identical mistake wasn’t made once more.
The Bunker doesn’t have the ability to intervene with issues like that, however the on-field officers – in addition to a referee’s coach within the grandstand – ought to have saved monitor of the sort out depend in a sport that fortunately wasn’t determined by that attempt.
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“I can’t stand up here and tell you that I can prevent refereeing errors. No one can,” Annesley mentioned.
“You can replace me with someone else standing here on a Monday and they won’t be able to tell you they can prevent refereeing errors either.
“They are human, fallible errors and they’ll happen no matter who the referee is and who’s in the administration, but we’ve got a duty to be open about it.
“There were two quick play the balls in exactly the same spot, and that’s clearly thrown their count and they resumed one tackle too late. I can’t give you a specific answer about where it went wrong, but why it went wrong is just a human error.”
The apparent concern is {that a} grand last may very well be determined by a mistake just like the one in Newcastle, and Annesley concedes the thought crosses his thoughts each week.
“It does concern me (that it could decide a grand final). It concerns me every week before I watch games,” he mentioned.
“I sit there hoping and praying that everything will go well and that we won’t have issues that we need to talk about on a Monday or across the course of the weekend.
“Of course I get concerned about that in big games, and we’ve seen it in the past where it happens in big games. But generally speaking, the percentage of something going wrong is very low, but I can’t stand here and say that it won’t happen.”
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