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<\/a><\/p>\nRobert Toia was denied a try when the bunker ruled he contacted Sam Stonestreet’s arm in a contest for a bomb where the Sharks winger spilled the ball.<\/p>\n
The Sharks then went downfield and Tom Hazelton crossed to make it 22-6.<\/p>\n
The disruptor rule has been one of the league’s biggest talking points in recent weeks, with Brisbane also denied a try against North Queensland on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Asked if he understood the rule anymore, Robinson responded: “I did”.<\/p>\n
“The direction they were heading was right. There was too much disturbing of fullbacks, there were people who weren’t competing,” he continued.<\/p>\n
“That’s gone too far. That was a clear example of two guys in a contest, two guys are looking at a ball. That’s an over-compensation.<\/p>\n
“If someone tries to defend that, we’re headed in the wrong direction. That’s the most extreme (we’ve had). I know there was a bit last night in the Brisbane game.<\/p>\n
The Roosters celebrate a Victor Radley try.\u00a0Photo by Paul Kane\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
“But I don’t think anyone can argue that was a disruptor.”<\/p>\n
Roosters captain James Tedesco also claimed the bunker was slowing replays “down to the millisecond”.<\/p>\n
The NRL has previously been able to explain what indicators they are using for contentious decisions through head of football Graham Annesley’s weekly briefings.<\/p>\n
However those were cancelled by the NRL at the start of last season, with the league’s head of football now effectively stopped from publicly explaining decisions.<\/p>\n
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“I’m a bit lost now. Theirs was a tough one in the first half,” Sharks coach Craig Fitzgibbon said.<\/p>\n
“It’s like anything they shine a light on it and it comes to the forefront of everyone’s mind, it keeps happening. Then it goes away and something else comes in.”<\/p>\n
That ruling was only the start of the Roosters’ first-half issues, as they made seven errors in the opening 25 minutes and trailed 16-0.<\/p>\n
But they rebounded when Sam Walker engineered a break down the left and scored from it, before his bomb for Daniel Tupou on halftime made it 22-12.<\/p>\n
Cherry-Evans then claimed his 100th NRL try when he put up a bomb and Nawaqanitawase batted back into his hands, reducing the margin to four.<\/p>\n
And after Tupou crossed to level the scores, Nawaqanitawase and Cherry-Evans again combined when the Roosters winger put on a flick pass for his five-eighth.<\/p>\n
Victor Radley scored late in his return match — after also putting on a key run in the lead up to Tupou’s go-ahead try — in his early return from a club-imposed 10-game ban.<\/p>\n
The one positive for Cronulla was Blayke Brailey inching closer to the NSW No.9 jersey, outshining incumbent Reece Robson at dummy-half.<\/p>\n
Brailey put Jesse Colquhoun, Braydon Trindall and Hazelton through gaping holes for first-half tries.<\/p>\n
“He’s definitely played well again today, I thought he sparked us and defended well,” Fitzgibbon said.<\/p>\n
“He’s an incredible player so I would love to see him get a shot.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trent Robinson has warned interpretation of the NRL’s disruptor rule has gone too far after his Sydney Roosters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-599956","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\/599956","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=599956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}