Rare kicking duel not seen in ‘decades’ highlights weird sequence

The Sea Eagles have tried to have interaction in a uncommon kicking duel with the Panthers, with the ploy backfiring.

The weird sequence begun when Panthers half Nathan Cleary despatched down a regulation kick on sort out 5 which was hauled in by Sea Eagles fullback Reuben Garrick.

Instead of working the ball again, Garrick surprisingly kicked it again to the Panthers, which was recovered by Dylan Edwards.

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Fox League’s Warren Smith couldn’t cover his amazement.

“We’ve got a force em’ back kicking dual. What about this,” Smith mentioned.

“C’mon Dylan, pump one up the other end.”

Edwards didn’t, as a substitute working the ball again and passing it to Stephen Crichton who rapidly handed it on to Sunia Turuva who in flip discovered a niche and ran 50 metres to attain.

“Manly go the kicking duel, Penrith bank the points,” Smith mentioned.

“That was interesting, we’ve seen some wily stuff tonight. It’s Reuben Garrick, well, he thinks it’s the 80s,” Michael Ennis mentioned.

The drama didn’t finish there with the Bunker looking on the strive for a attainable obstruction, earlier than giving it the all clear.

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“If it was a set plan that they were going to go with a force em’ back kicking duel, it didn’t work on this occasion,” Smith mentioned.

“Is that the last kicking duel we see for three decades, Mick?”

“I saw nothing there from Reuben Garrick that any other coach would have written down and said ‘we will try that over the weekend’,” Ennis replied.

“It was like Reuben was stuck in a time machine and was back in the 70s,” Matty Johns mentioned on The Late Show with Matty Johns.

Source web site: www.foxsports.com.au

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