{"id":70346,"date":"2025-08-15T13:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/70346\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:52:14","slug":"nrl-2025-shane-flanagan-fumes-at-non-obstruction-call-in-dragons-loss-to-the-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/70346\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2025: Shane Flanagan fumes at non obstruction call in Dragons loss to the Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dragons coach Shane Flanagan was fuming at an obstruction non-call for Adam Pompey\u2019s first try that cost his side in their 14-10 loss to the Warriors in Round 24. <\/p>\n<p>Pompey\u2019s try in the 63rd minute drew Flanagan\u2019s ire, as Dragons five-eighth Lyhkan King-Togia appealed for an obstruction after being impeded by lead runner Marata Niukore in the lead-up. <\/p>\n<p>FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every game of every round in the 2025 NRL Telstra Premiership, LIVE with no ad-breaks during play. New to Kayo? <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=nrl&amp;extcamp=ncaeditoriallinkleague-edt-new-lnk-awr-grc-nrl-kyo&amp;channel=nca&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" title=\"kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your first month for just $1. Limited-time offer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Flanagan was not asked about the crucial decision post-match, but chose to bring it up anyway. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you haven\u2019t asked the question, but I am going to give an answer,\u201d Flanagan said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really tough for us that what was an obstruction last week is not an obstruction this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started playing footy when I was four years old and I don\u2019t know the rules anymore. I deadset do not know the rules. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it is tough, but we are a tough club and this is a really connected unit and we will fight really hard for the next three weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flanagan was pressed if he thought it was a clear obstruction from Niukore. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I said last week it was an obstruction and this week it is not,\u201d Flanagan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe boys asked out on the field numerous times and they just got shooed away, so that is frustrating.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Despite the loss Flanagan was proud of his players after they lost three forwards <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/awful-scenes-as-three-dragons-knocked-out-against-the-warriors\/news-story\/989d59a24c52fc4e4a0abb6594de162d\" title=\"www.news.com.au\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"989d59a24c52fc4e4a0abb6594de162d\" data-tgev-label=\"sport\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack de Belin, Hamish Stewart and Hame Sele to category one concussions<\/a>, which saw them reduced to two on the bench including 18th man Tyrell Sloan. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel a lot of pride,\u201d Flanagan said. \u201cI\u2019m proud of the group. Their effort. Their attitude. Their commitment. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was one of the better performances I have seen for a long period of time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo lose three forwards so early in the game and then you lose three interchanges there as well, so we had just one forward just rotating around and we had to activate our 18th man. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t talk highly enough of the group. How hard they tried. How committed they are and how connected they are to the jersey and fighting for each other, so really proud.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Flanagan revealed the three players were doing OK, but would miss a week at least. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJack is looking OK,\u201d Flanagan said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is up and about. His 250th game, so really disappointing that happened. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHame Sele is very similar. He is feeling OK and Hamish Stewart has got a pretty nasty cut to the back of his head form the de Belin incident. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo they will all miss a week more than likely I would think.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Dragons skipper Damien Cook was proud of his troops after a game unlike any other he had experienced. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo I don\u2019t think I have ever been a part of a game like that,\u201d Cook said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spoke about it at halftime this could be one of the greatest wins if we could steal it, but still the result is still a massive win for us as a team. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust the resilience and character that we showed today is a massive step in a good direction for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Originally published as <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/nrl-2025-shane-flanagan-fumes-at-non-obstruction-call-marata-niukore-dragons-vs-warriors-concussions-press-conference-round-24\/news-story\/d8550b27e60ebf72104128ae4d04b9b9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Flanagan fumes as obstruction non-call robs theDragons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dragons coach Shane Flanagan was fuming at an obstruction non-call for Adam Pompey\u2019s first try that cost his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,4428,55420,55421,4420,36261,55422,53986,4431,4746,55423,761,762,55419,158,4583,85,53979],"class_list":{"0":"post-70346","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-brisbane-broncos","11":"tag-clear-obstruction","12":"tag-controversial-try-leads","13":"tag-damien-cook","14":"tag-dragons-coach","15":"tag-epic-comeback","16":"tag-golden-point-epic","17":"tag-hamish-stewart","18":"tag-mark-st-john","19":"tag-massive-step","20":"tag-national-rugby-league","21":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","22":"tag-non-obstruction-call","23":"tag-nrl","24":"tag-shane-flanagan","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-storm-skipper"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70346","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=70346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}