{"id":657736,"date":"2026-05-08T12:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/657736\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:51:27","slug":"nrl-confirms-controversial-robert-toia-try-was-the-wrong-decision-josh-hannay-blasts-bunker-gold-coast-titans-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/657736\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL confirms controversial Robert Toia try was the wrong decision, Josh Hannay blasts bunker, Gold Coast Titans, nrl news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A displeased Josh Hannay has revealed that NRL officials approached him and confirmed that the referee made the wrong decision on one of the tries scored against the Gold Coast Titans.<\/p>\n<p>Watch every game of every round of the NRL Premiership LIVE with no ad-breaks during play on FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports |<a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/en-AU\/welcome\/nrl?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkleague-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-nrl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After Chris Randall crossed the line for the opening try of the match, opposing centre Robert Toia struck back in the 30th minute but the try was awarded under a ton of controversy.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776909012_441_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Although replays suggested that the Roosters centre had lost the ball while trying to ground it, bunker official Adam Gee confirmed the try, thus allowing them to get back into the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve already had some officials come and tell us that it was the wrong call,\u201d Hannay said post-match when asked about the outcome of the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how you look at it, slow it down. I was looking at the same pictures, so I just don\u2019t know how you get that wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to get the decision right (when it is) live all the time but when you have the technology we have in the game today, I just don\u2019t understand how they sort of ruled that a try.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou say it didn\u2019t impact the outcome but how do we know? How do we know? It\u2019s frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clear obstruction? Titans fans look away | 00:32<\/p>\n<p>Titans skipper Tino Fa\u2019asuamaleaui was also perplexed at the decision to not overrule it especially seeing it live on the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m seeing that in front of me and at the time that\u2019s why I approached the ref was because it looked (like) a knock-on in my opinion,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut my job was to re-group the group and make sure that we get into our next job. I didn\u2019t want to take that energy back to the group and before you know it, the game\u2019s done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn real time I saw it and thought it was a bit disappointing but I had to do a job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The following try to James Tedesco in the 37th minute was also controversial.<\/p>\n<p>Randall bursts through to open the score | 00:23<\/p>\n<p>Titans fullback Keano Kini claimed that Daniel Tupou had illegally denied him the opportunity to tackle Tedesco.<\/p>\n<p>However, Hannay was fine with the decision made by the bunker to award it a try.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, that was sort of inadvertent. He couldn\u2019t get out of the way, couldn\u2019t disappear,\u201d Hannay said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wasn\u2019t running an obstruction for anyeon, so it was just a challenge fore Keano to get around him but that\u2019s play on there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A displeased Josh Hannay has revealed that NRL officials approached him and confirmed that the referee made the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-657736","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\/657736","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=657736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}