As Roosters coach Trent Robinson addressed the media after his facet was ousted from the premiership race by the Rabbitohs on Sunday afternoon, he bristled at a reporter’s “suggestion”.
After a conflict wherein seven sin-bins have been dealt out, 5 head damage assessments came about and 15 penalties have been awarded, a journalist quizzed Robinson on gamers staying down after doable acts of foul play.
“The extra gamers who have been penalised or binned, the extra gamers turned conscious in the event that they stayed down or if the sport stopped there could be a chance there for penalties,” the reporter mentioned within the Roosters’ post-match press convention.
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“Do you see it as an issue right this moment and do you see it as an issue for the remainder of the finals?”
Robinson clasped his palms and sat up a little bit taller as he ready to hit again.
“Are you saying on the Roosters facet that —,” Robinson mentioned.
“No, simply basically within the sport,” the reporter replied.
“Are you saying that the Roosters lied down there?” Robinson clarified.
”No, I am simply saying the sport basically,” the reporter added.
“Numerous these sin-binnings have been referees getting instruction from the Bunker. They weren’t really known as within the play.”
“Yeah, positive, however I am asking you: are you saying that the Roosters lied down for penalties in that sport?” Robinson mentioned.
“No, simply basically,” the reporter confirmed.
“I can not clearly bear in mind all of them as a result of there have been that many, but it surely felt as if it went upstairs rather a lot.”
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Robinson defended his facet’s integrity.
“I am going to simply say that we did not lie down for any penalties,” the Tricolours mentor mentioned.
“I take umbrage to the suggestion that we lied down for penalties, as a result of we did not.”
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“Within the sport, although, with Souths?” the journalist prodded.
“I haven’t got an opinion on theirs,” Robinson replied.
“I’ve an opinion on us and that we can’t do it. It isn’t going to occur.
“You possibly can really feel I am keen about that and that (I imagine) that will not occur.
“I am going to ask you to take a look, and (I) say (to you), ‘The place did we try this?’.
“Simply do not say basically, as a result of that did not occur from our finish.”
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Seven sin-bins is a brand new competitors file.
Victor Radley was sin-binned for punching and once more for racing in to affix a scuffle, Taane Milne was sin-binned twice for prime tackles, Tom Burgess was given his marching orders for a excessive shot, Tevita Tatola was sin-binned for a head push and Jared Waerea-Hargreaves copped the identical consequence for harmful contact in a sort out.
Darren Lockyer and Brad Fittler have been essential of what they deemed an overuse of the sin bin.
”I believe this needs to be refereed a bit like an Origin. (Give the gamers) a little bit of leeway,” Lockyer mentioned on 9’s protection.
“It was fairly apparent early how this sport was going to be performed and the referees wanted to have a cool head about it,” Fittler added.
There was a weird second two minutes into the competition when Latrell Mitchell retrieved a kick at fullback and, rugby union-style, instantly rifled it again down the sphere.
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“What occurred there?” Andrew Johns mentioned.
“I have never seen that for 30 years.”
However the baffling transfer was shortly engulfed by the insanity that adopted.
Three of the seven sin-bins have been enforced within the opening 20 minutes, and the drama-charged motion did not stop till the full-time whistle was blown, giving a crowd of a tick beneath 40,000 at Sydney Soccer Stadium a Sunday afternoon to savour.
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