NRL soccer boss Graham Annesley has clarified a weird group sheet bungle which noticed the Dragons begin a unique group to the one named.
The Dragons listed hooker Jacob Liddle to begin in jersey No.9 an hour earlier than kick-off in opposition to the Raiders, however utility Moses Mbye in jersey No.14 really began the sport at dummyhalf.
Under NRL guidelines, groups are required to submit their groups an hour earlier than the sport begins.
Annesley addressed the incident in his common Monday press convention and confirmed the Dragons weren’t penalised with an interchange.
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“They weren’t docked an interchange – they still got their normal number of interchanges,” he mentioned.
“That didn’t happen for one reason or another yesterday,” Annesley added.
“I know there have been some stories circulating that that cost them an interchange, but it didn’t cost them an interchange. They still got their full eight interchanges.”
Annesley then hinted the Dragons may face punishment over the combo up if it was deemed a breach of the NRL guidelines.
“It then becomes a breach of our rules, which is dealt with separately post game,” Annesley mentioned.
“Andrew Abdo will have a look at the circumstances around that and we’ll get some more details on how that happened, and then a decision will be taken in the normal course of events about the reasons why the rules were breached.
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“A determination will then be made whether they’re issued a breach notice and an associated penalty that goes with that.”
The group sheet blunder was met with incredulity by the Fox League commentators.
“I think at the moment what sums up the plight of the Dragons is they named Jacob Liddle to start at hooker, but Moses Mbye took the field,” Matty Johns mentioned on Sunday Night with Matty Johns.
Bryan Fletcher was additionally in shock that such a blunder may occur.
“When I heard that I couldn’t believe it,” Fletcher mentioned.
“It’s a bit like the Tigers when something is going wrong it seems to continue.”
“Like the saying when it rains it pours and then it hails,” Johns added.
Source web site: www.foxsports.com.au
