Sam Walker was denied a try by the slimmest of margins in a controversial incident that saw Reuben Cotter sent to the bin.<\/p>\n
The Roosters talisman almost pulled off a spectacular finish but was denied by the Bunker following a lengthy check.<\/p>\n
Walker\u2019s grubber kick rebounded off the post and he was able to ground the ball following a ricochet on the try line.<\/p>\n
But the try was chalked off after Walker was judged to have committed a knock-on.<\/p>\n
Officials decided the ball brushed off halfback\u2019s thumb, despite replays being unclear.<\/p>\n
However the Roosters had a silver lining from the incident as Cotter was sin binned for tackling Walker when he did not have possession.<\/p>\n
Yet there was little Cotter could have done to avoid the tackle as several bodies came together under the posts.<\/p>\n
The Cowboys star had a baffled look on his face as he was sent to the bin, with commentator Andrew Voss describing the decision as \u201cbrutal\u201d.<\/p>\n
Fans were left equally as dismayed by the call, which knocked the Cowboys as Hugo Savala scored to make it a one try game moments later.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ruben Cotter sin bin is perhaps the worst decision in history of Rugby League,\u201d wrote one fan.<\/p>\n
Another added: \u201cThought the bunker was to stop ref howlers not add to them. Shocking call for sin bin on Cotter.\u201d<\/p>\n
A third wrote: \u201cNot the point the point is the officiating is horrible and cotter sent to the bin for literally nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
And another commented: \u201cThat sin bin of cotter is the worst I\u2019ve seen since Tamales. No surprise it\u2019s the roosters getting the rub.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Walker was denied a try by the slimmest of margins in a controversial incident that saw Reuben…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-675253","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\/675253","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=675253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}