The Panthers may have ran away big winners on Friday night but one contentious moment, which even drew the ire of a Penrith great, has come into the spotlight.

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Penrith looked on track to make a sloppy South Sydney pay for an error-riddled second half and ended up doing just that in the end, claiming a crucial 36-14 win without their Origin stars.

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Tom Jenkins scored a hat-trick in the win, although there was controversy surrounding his second try and for more than one reason.

Firstly, the Bunker appeared to be more concerned with the put-down and it was hardly convincing, although a later angle seemed to show Jenkins did ground the ball cleanly.

What the Bunker didn’t pay much attention to, at least on the surface, was the potential for a double movement and for a number of NRL greats, including Penrith legend Greg Alexander, it wasn’t even a question.

“The arm carrying the ball touches the ground and it’s not momentum that gets him into the in-goal. It’s the fact he was able to reach out. It’s great skill… but it wasn’t a try because his arm hit the ground and had defenders on him,” Alexander said on Fox League.

Braith Anasta, meanwhile, was at a loss that the Bunker seemed to not even consider the possibility of a double movement and instead skipped straight to the grounding.

“That’s a double movement in the rules of our game… it’s a great effort but the right arm touches the ground, the South Sydney team stops him and then he promotes the ball,” Anasta said.

“The Bunker spent how long on this and they didn’t even mention it once. They didn’t even look for it… to me in the rules of the game that’s a double movement.”

While Friday’s game ended a blowout, the contest was well and truly still in the balance when the Jenkins try was awarded with Penrith pushing out to a 14-point lead as a result.

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The NRL’s Laws and Interpretation document states that a try will be awarded if “a tackled player’s momentum carries him into the opponents’ in-goal where he grounds the ball even if the ball has first touched the ground in the field of play”.

However, momentum did not appear to be the contributing factor to Jenkins getting the ball over the try-line and according to Michael Ennis, the Bunker should not have even got to the point where the grounding was being adjudicated.

“It shouldn’t have got to that. The moment he was tackled and had defenders on him and his arm hit the ground, it’s end of story,” he said.

To only further illustrate how contentious the call was, Alexander pointed to a disallowed try earlier in the year where Salesi Foketi was denied by the Bunker against the Dolphins.

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On that occasion, Francis Molo had a hand on Foketi when his ball-carrying arm hit the ground.

“However, he was still moving,” Alexander added, suggesting that was even more likely to be awarded a try given momentum was in Foketi’s favour.

Instead, it was taken off the board to the confusion of Anasta.

“If that’s a no try, how is this a try?” he asked.

“It’s hard to justify.”