The Daily Telegraph’s Paul Crawley has slammed Rabbitohs coach Jason Demetriou’s post-match blow up over Taane Milne’s sin bin which despatched Bulldogs prop Ryan Sutton to hospital.
Milne was positioned on report and fined for a shoulder cost within the tenth minute of South Sydney’s conflict in opposition to Canterbury-Bankstown on Saturday evening.
The deal with off the kick-off was initially only a penalty, however after Sutton spent a number of minutes on the bottom the Bunker reviewed the deal with and referee Liam Kennedy raised ten fingers.
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Demetriou launched a scathing assault on the choice, explaining he believes his staff can’t “get a fair crack”.
“We’re just finding things to do. Finding ways to get people who aren’t even on the field to make big decisions,” Demetriou stated.
“The live decision was what it was, but for whatever reason we want to look at it again and again and again, slow it down and manufacture an opinion and send a bloke into the sin bin.”
But for Crawley, Demetriou confirmed no “genuine compassion” and by chance Sutton has since been cleared of any severe neck harm.
“It was a typical rant from a losing coach and I get that he is frustrated, but what I found hard to cop was the fact that you had Ryan Sutton laid on the ground, stretchered off the field with a neck injury,” Crawley stated.
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“Who was then carted to hospital and at the post-match press conference, the talk was about why Taane Milne was sin binned and there was no genuine compassion for the injured player.
“Jason’s concerns went from interference in the ruck to that moment, they are completely separate issues.”
League legend Gorden Tallis additionally defined he believed the deal with was a sin bin and Crawley mirrored on probably the most harrowing moments in rugby league historical past — Alex McKinnon’s neck harm.
“You have got to put yourself in the ball carrier’s body there, you have to expect when you are running you don’t get hit in the head,” Tallis stated.
“I think they got the first decision wrong and the second one right, and I think Jason has got a right and I understand his frustration.
“But Milne hits him in the head.”
“In that moment my concern was for Ryan Sutton… and when he was lying on the ground, I will never forget the feeling I had, going back a decade when Alex McKinnon suffered his terrible injury,” Crawley stated.
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“And the way Cameron Smith performed, debating who was going to get the penalty or not.
“The other night I thought Jason’s reaction was out of line, I really did.”
But for NRL360 host Braith Anasta they refereeing staff made the improper choice, siding with Demetriou that the Bunker have been in search of a penalty handy down.
“I think they got it wrong, it is barely a shoulder charge… the Bunker are trying to find something here and how the neck injury happened,” Anasta stated.
“Tatola comes in and bends his neck… that doesn’t mean Taane Milne should be punished for his shot and sent for 10 in the bin.
“For minimal contact with the head, which I think wasn’t a shoulder charge.”
“If you want to put the blowtorch on someone, put the blowtorch on Taane Milne,” Crawley responded.
“If the Bunker would not have put someone on report and potentially in the sin bin, I’ll tell you now they would have been crucified.”
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