{"id":589614,"date":"2026-04-06T18:19:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589614\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:19:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:19:39","slug":"mitchell-moses-admits-confusion-over-referee-call-wasnt-able-to-challenge-eels-press-conference-jason-ryles-eels-v-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589614\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Moses admits confusion over referee call, wasn\u2019t able to challenge, Eels press conference, Jason Ryles, Eels v Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mitch Moses has admitted he was left confused by an inability to challenge a crucial officiating decision right before half time which cost the Eels a golden tryscoring opportunity in a 22-20 golden point loss to the Tigers.<\/a><\/p>\n

With three minutes left in the first half, Eels prop Jack Williams made a break down the right sideline and almost reached the tryline before being brought to the ground by Adam Doueihi and Api Koroisau. <\/p>\n

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Williams then got up to quickly play the ball before losing it forward with several Tigers draped on him.<\/p>\n

Gough called it a knock on as he didn\u2019t believe a tackle had been complete<\/a>, with Moses quick to remonstrate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to challenge. He\u2019s getting up to play the ball,\u201d Moses said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want to challenge? I hadn\u2019t ruled the tackle complete. It\u2019s a lost ball,\u201d Gough replied to the Eels skipper, essentially telling him he wasn\u2019t going to win if he fired in a protest. <\/p>\n

Moses provided more detail into his conversation with Gough in the Eels\u2019 post-game press conference. <\/p>\n

\u201cWell, he (Williams) felt like he was held and had about four players on him, so he\u2019s trying to get up and play the ball. So I asked to challenge it then he (Gough) said that he hadn\u2019t called held yet so there was no point in me challenging it because I was never going to win it,\u201d Moses explained to reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe pretty much told me not to challenge it, because he told me he didn\u2019t say held. There\u2019s no way I was going to win that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Coach Jason Ryles then interjected, believing if Williams had got up and made an effort to cross the tryline and scored, it would have been a double movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019m saying. If he had a crack there, then I don\u2019t know,\u201d Moses said.<\/p>\n

While Ryles and Moses were frustrated with how that moment played out, they stressed it wasn\u2019t the reason they lost. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor me with the ref, we don\u2019t let that come into it. That\u2019s not why we lost,\u201d Ryles said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve got a hard job. They are put in some pretty high-pressure situations and if we got the back end of our first half right, we wouldn\u2019t have had to worry about the ref.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just another situation that everyone can learn from, I hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was another tough game on the injury front for the Eels as well.<\/p>\n

With Isaiah Iongi (two months, ankle) and J\u2019maine Hopgood (season, ACL) already sidelined, winger Bailey Simonsson is also looking at a massive stint out after suffering a dislocated ankle.<\/p>\n

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Like Iongi and Hopgood, Simonsson\u2019s injury came from an incident which was ruled to be foul play<\/a> when he was tackled in the air by his opposite winger. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt just happens that it\u2019s foul play that is injuring the guys. There are two season-enders and an eight-weekers, and now another one,\u201d Ryles said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose contests happen every week. The players don\u2019t mean to do it, we understand that, but there is a reason those actions are outlawed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure what you want me to say or do, but that\u2019s what we sign up for each week. It\u2019s just another opportunity for our next player up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryles was also asked about whether the Eels will chase any potential dispensation from the NRL but said that decision will be made by the higher-ups at the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mitch Moses has admitted he was left confused by an inability to challenge a crucial officiating decision right…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[288018,64,63,288020,288019,11096,65196,288021,4508,4556,22326,761,762,158,287795,7495,668,256621,287796,288017,85,245689,288022,4515],"class_list":{"0":"post-589614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-admits-confusion","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-bold-contract-move","12":"tag-crucial-officiating-decision","13":"tag-daniel-nuttall","14":"tag-golden-point-loss","15":"tag-golden-tryscoring-opportunity","16":"tag-jack-williams","17":"tag-jason-ryles","18":"tag-mitchell-moses","19":"tag-national-rugby-league","20":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","21":"tag-nrl","22":"tag-peter-gough","23":"tag-post-game-press-conference","24":"tag-press-conference","25":"tag-ref-calls","26":"tag-ref-decision","27":"tag-referee-call","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-tigers-youngster","30":"tag-tigers-youngster-sin","31":"tag-wests-tigers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589614","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=589614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}