Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nPezet had got through the line and passed to Kitione Kautoga, who got his arms free to give an offload back in Pezet\u2019s direction. <\/p>\n
But Pezet was pulled back by Su\u2019A as he tried to catch the ball \u2014 the Bunker reviewed the play and deemed no defenders would have stopped Pezet scoring. <\/p>\n
Watch the controversial penalty try call in the video above<\/p>\n
It was a bold call given Dragons fullback Clint Gutherson was hovering in cover defence and would have likely tackled Pezet and prevented him from scoring. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey are going to give a penalty try to Jonah Pezet,\u201d Fox League commentator Andrew Voss said. <\/p>\n
\u201cBy the letter of the law, we do have a degree of subjectivity, but I would say if you threw it to the majority, the majority could say, \u2018No he\u2019s not certain to score.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cWow, Parramatta the beneficiaries\u00a0of a penalty try. That is quite incredible. Controversy and rugby league never too far apart.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cooper Cronk added: \u201cJaydn Su\u2019A is all over Jonah Pezet. If he doesn\u2019t touch him…he gets arms around him and he doesn\u2019t score that try. <\/p>\n
\u201cClint Gutherson is coming across as well. I\u2019m sorry but that is not a penalty try. It\u2019s a penalty, maybe a sin bin for grabbing without the ball, but I can\u2019t agree with that.<\/p>\n
\u201cPenalty every day of the week but I don\u2019t agree with a penalty try. It wasn\u2019t as if Pezet was running onto the ball either.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mitchell Moses converted from directly in front to give Parramatta a 6-0 lead, before the Dragons scored minutes later through Luciano Leilua. <\/p>\n
Parramatta led 18-14 at halftime and claimed a 30-20 win when Josh Addo-Carr ran 70m to score on the back of a Dragons error. <\/p>\n
The Eels are now 2-1 to start the season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Parramatta Eels were awarded a controversial penalty try in Sunday afternoon\u2019s clash with the Dragons in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,244438,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-557694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ncaeditorialkayo","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557694","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=557694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}