Knights\u2019 search for new coach over, ex-Wallabies boss to take key role<\/a><\/p>\nThe NRL admitted Ashley Klein gave the penalty to the wrong team.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why you have got to get the decisions right. It\u2019s tougher for a player. It\u2019s tougher for Payne Haas.\u201d <\/p>\n
Braith Anasta questioned if Klein got the Reece Walsh headbutt decision wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe got the sin-binning wrong,\u201d Tallis replied. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo, if you\u2019re going to get sin-binned now for celebrating and getting in players\u2019 faces, there won\u2019t be a player every week. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen players get in players faces, how many times do we watch it? We don\u2019t like it, but he\u2019s allowed to do that. <\/p>\n
\u201cHudson Young did nothing wrong. That is not a sin-bin-able offence. And Reece Walsh, should he have got sin-binned? Yeah maybe.\u201d <\/p>\n
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Read pointed out that the NRL believe what Young did was more than a sledge. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think the NRL\u2019s view is that Hudson Young initiated contact, he didn\u2019t just get in his face, he initiated contact with him,\u201d Read said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m with you I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a sin-bin. I don\u2019t think he should have been sin-binned.\u201d <\/p>\n
Rothfield revealed the NRL admitted they got the penalty decision wrong, but stood by the rest of the decisions on the incident. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe concession I got out of the NRL today from the incident Canberra was penalised and they have now admitted that Canberra should have got the penalty,\u201d Rothfield said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd people describe it like this. If you\u2019ve got a dickhead act, which is Hudson Young behaving like he did and you\u2019ve got a headbutt, which is blatant foul play, the foul play far outweighs the dickhead. <\/p>\n
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\u201cAnd it was a crucial time of the game and they got the penalty wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Raiders should have got the penalty and that\u2019s one of the reasons, Klein didn\u2019t get a better than a pass. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey tell me that was Klein\u2019s decision. The bunker ruled had a look at it, but it was Klein\u2019s decision to penalise Canberra for an in-your-face act of stupidity.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you know football players, like Hudson Young, and you\u2019re never going to stop it, are always going to applaud a mistake like that and get in an opponents\u2019 face.\u201d<\/p>\n
The decision not to send off or suspend Walsh had Tallis calling for consistency from the NRL if it was an enforcer, rather than a fullback. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think there was too much in it, I just would like to know if that was Nelson Asofa-Solomona headbutting, Reece what would happen?\u201d Tallis said. <\/p>\n
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\u201cJust as long as we\u2019re consistent. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s too much in it, I really don\u2019t. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s worth a week on the sidelines.\u201d <\/p>\n
Rothfield revealed the last five players to headbutt a player were not suspended either. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe NRL have given us detail, which is very much consistent,\u201d Rothfield said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe last five players who headbutted opponents on the field in a similar manner, not overly serious, but still a headbutt have got off with a grade one and didn\u2019t miss any footy. <\/p>\n
\u201cNow, the Victor Radley example, he got three weeks. His was all about loading and that\u2019s the difference, so I am certainly not going to be bagging them about lack of consistency.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NRL admitted Ashley Klein got the penalty wrong in the Reece Walsh headbutt incident, as debate raged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-144951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}