{"id":3386,"date":"2025-07-18T14:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/3386\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T14:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:55:15","slug":"cronulla-sharks-defeat-sydney-roosters-billy-burns-try-trent-robinson-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/3386\/","title":{"rendered":"Cronulla Sharks defeat Sydney Roosters, Billy Burns try, Trent Robinson reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sydney Roosters<\/a> coach Trent Robinson<\/a> expressed his frustration with an apparent incorrect try decision at a “crucial moment” during his side’s 31-18 loss to the Cronulla Sharks on Friday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Sharks extended their advantage to 26-18 after second-rower Billy Burns crossed next to the posts in the 58th minute.<\/p>\n

The try was subsequently awarded by referee Todd Smith and confirmed by the Bunker with no questions asked.<\/p>\n

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\"Spencer<\/p>\n

Spencer Leniu gets a hand to Billy Burns in the lead-up to his try.\u00a0Fox League<\/p>\n

However, replays showed that Tricolours prop Spencer Leniu got a hand to Burns when his arm, which held the ball, was on the ground. This constitutes a tackle.<\/p>\n

This interpretation of the game’s rules is a common point of contention in rugby league, as the precise moment of tackle completion and ball grounding can be extremely subtle.<\/p>\n

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The officiating error was ultimately missed by everyone until Robinson abruptly challenged the call during his post-match press conference.<\/p>\n

“I wanted to ask about the try under the posts with [Burns’] elbow on the ground and Spencer’s hand on him. Was that commented on at all?” he said.<\/p>\n

When a member of media explained that the consensus was that Spencer’s hand did not make contact with Burns, Robinson voiced his disagreement and questioned why the Bunker did not intervene.<\/p>\n

“It was really clear,” he said.<\/p>\n

\"Trent<\/p>\n

Trent Robinson expresses his confusion with a try decision he deemed “incorrect”.\u00a0Fox League<\/p>\n

“It was a really clear touch there. It was a very critical time, I think we had three six against us there as well.<\/p>\n

“I don’t understand why that wasn’t overturned.”<\/p>\n

The same reporter then asked Roosters skipper James Tedesco what the referee said on the field at that moment.<\/p>\n

“That one, the ref just said he slipped off the tackle. I said he had a hand on him while he was on the ground,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Roosters coach Trent Robinson expressed his frustration with an apparent incorrect try decision at a “crucial moment”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-3386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386","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=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}