Haas defects to Samoa in Kevvie hammer blow<\/a><\/p>\nIvan Cleary and Nathan Cleary.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re defending a three-man and you play for the obstruction, then they don\u2019t want that in the game, but for some reason, it\u2019s different for a field goal. <\/p>\n
\u201cI thought the blocking rule was brought in, so then people wouldn\u2019t stand next to the play-the-ball. Moses wasn\u2019t in that position. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t believe that everyone can get behind me on that field goal. And then essentially Harry played for it because he knew he was going to get the penalty. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut I don\u2019t think Moses moved at all either, so it was a pretty frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n
HARRY THE HERO – Grant fools Penrith! | 00:44<\/p>\n
The Panthers are some of the best exponents of the field goal in the game and it is something they rarely get wrong. <\/p>\n
However, Cleary believes this situation was unique in that it came off a linebreak, which made it hard for Leota to get out of the way. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a bit different because it\u2019s sort of happened straight off a line break, so I just went into position,\u201d Cleary explained. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t your sort of standard field goal. I think that\u2019s what sort of makes it harder as well. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s after a linebreak, so Moses is there to take the next run. And then I\u2019m not sure what he\u2019s meant to do. Like, I know that\u2019s a common cliche, but is he meant to then run through? <\/p>\n
Coates’ fumbled finish… try or no try? | 00:39<\/p>\n
\u201cBut then if he runs through, he\u2019s a chance of taking people out. Do we expect him to get all the way behind the ball and then we\u2019ve got no one to run it? <\/p>\n
\u201cSo I don\u2019t know. I feel like it\u2019s a split second thing where I\u2019m then calling, I want the ball to take the field goal. And Moses is there to take a run. And he didn\u2019t move. So I don\u2019t know. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty frustrating. But at the end of the day, we did enough bad things to ourselves and lost that game. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd refs calls, they go on your side sometimes and sometimes they\u2019re not, so we lost that game ourselves.\u201d <\/p>\n
However, Grant believes he was only acting within the rules of the game as they currently stand. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think anyone in the game has seen that that\u2019s been policed numerous times and that\u2019s the rules in the game,\u201d Grant said. <\/p>\n
Panthers’ dreams SHATTERED by late pen! | 00:39<\/p>\n
\u201cEven the opposition boys, they were aware of it in the game and when it happened. If that\u2019s the rules we stick to it, if we want to change it come out during the week and change it. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut I think anyone would agree that that\u2019s been policed numerous times throughout the year and hats off to the officials for policing it the same way.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s been numerous ocassions throughout the year where it\u2019s been awarded a penalty. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s probably some inconsistencies or confusion around it sometimes, but so long as that\u2019s the rule, it\u2019s black and white, take that forward. <\/p>\n
\u201cEven the players throughout on the field knew that they weren\u2019t allowed to be in that position. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe all train for that, we all know the circumstances, we all know scenarios… everyone knows you\u2019re not allowed to be in that position and that\u2019s a hard one for sure but that\u2019s just what\u2019s been policed throughout the season.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ivan Cleary preferred praise Harry Grant, but son Nathan was still burning about the penalty that denied his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,50661,53905,13485,8092,37304,53986,53903,8095,53985,5098,52919,48254,4746,53980,4466,4572,761,762,158,4598,53981,668,53984,85,53982,53979,1080,53987,53983],"class_list":{"0":"post-68060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-brian-too","11":"tag-crucial-field-goal","12":"tag-darcie-mcdonald","13":"tag-field-goal","14":"tag-golden-point","15":"tag-golden-point-epic","16":"tag-grant-fools","17":"tag-harry-grant","18":"tag-illegal-blocking-position","19":"tag-ivan-cleary","20":"tag-kangaroos-bombshell","21":"tag-line-break","22":"tag-mark-st-john","23":"tag-match-winning-field","24":"tag-melbourne-storm","25":"tag-moses-leota","26":"tag-national-rugby-league","27":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","28":"tag-nrl","29":"tag-penrith-panthers","30":"tag-penrith-panthers-press","31":"tag-press-conference","32":"tag-refs-calls","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-standard-field-goal","35":"tag-storm-skipper","36":"tag-sydney-roosters","37":"tag-table-topping-dogs","38":"tag-winning-field-goal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68060","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=68060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}