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\u201cI just find it unfortunate. I\u2019ll go back to when the hip drop was first introduced, and it was totally different to that. But somehow someone has changed the laws.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know who did it, but ultimately it feels like we\u2019ve gone back to if there\u2019s a body, someone killed him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kenny was banned for two matches last year for a hip-drop tackle on Roosters forward Nat Butcher and now faces a nervous wait for the charge sheet to drop.<\/p>\n
His coach has already won a big case at the judiciary this year when he got Nathan Cleary off at NRL headquarters, but it\u2019s unclear whether Ivan would step in again if required for a tackle that he says didn\u2019t warrant 10 minutes in the sin bin.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI don\u2019t know what you can do about that one we saw tonight,\u201d he said, with the NRL issuing big bans in the past as a deterrent to players who argue they don\u2019t have time in the heat of the moment to make adjustments.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to reiterate that it\u2019s not cool when someone gets hurt, but I think they used to talk about whether your legs leave the ground (then it\u2019s a hip drop) but his legs never left the ground and he didn\u2019t really get him, but it was bad enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe velocity of how fast \u2018Is\u2019 (Iongi) was running and all that stuff (adds to it).<\/p>\n
\u201cI know they take into account the injury, and they\u2019re already asking about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t (think it was worthy of a sin bin) but under the current interpretation (it must be). A player gets injured so someone has to pay for it. That\u2019s just how we do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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