{"id":75611,"date":"2025-08-17T18:18:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T18:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75611\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T18:18:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T18:18:25","slug":"obstruction-call-in-wests-tigers-vs-manly-sea-eagles-game-video-tom-trbojevic-taylan-may-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75611\/","title":{"rendered":"Obstruction call in Wests Tigers vs Manly Sea Eagles game, video, Tom Trbojevic, Taylan May try"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wests Tigers cruised to a comfortable win over the Manly Sea Eagles on Sunday afternoon<\/a> but there was plenty of confusion surrounding their fourth try of the game. <\/p>\n

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Tommy Talau burst through the line and left Manly fullback Tom Trbojevic without any hope of stopping him as the Tigers centre breezed past to extend the home team\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n

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While not obvious at the time, replays later seemed to show Talau taking advantage of Samuela Fainu running in front of him and obscuring Trbojevic\u2019s line of vision at his primary target. <\/p>\n

The try was quickly confirmed by the Bunker, but both Andrew Voss and Greg Alexander questioned whether the Tigers should have been pinged for an obstruction in the lead-up.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt left Tom with a decision to make. Does he go for Fainu? Tom was just left standing because he wasn\u2019t sure who to take,\u201d Alexander said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got another attacker to think about. He angles towards Taylan May and towards Tom and then steps out of the road.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor mine, Samuela Fainu was in front of the ball carrier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Voss, meanwhile, called it \u201cobstruction 101\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s certainly not your garden variety obstruction but boy it\u2019s a diversion. I\u2019ve got to say that\u2019s obstruction 101,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaylan May has stepped his own man and Tom has gone for that step. How is that a try? He\u2019s not entitled to have two people running at him.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the decision didn\u2019t have much of an impact on the result, it did push the Tigers\u2019 lead out beyond two converted tries with just under 20 minutes left on the clock. <\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t the first time the NRL\u2019s interpretation of obstructions had come under the microscope this weekend, with Dragons coach Shane Flanagan declaring \u201cI don\u2019t know the rules anymore\u201d<\/a> after a non-call proved costly against the Warriors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wests Tigers cruised to a comfortable win over the Manly Sea Eagles on Sunday afternoon but there…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-75611","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\/75611","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=75611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}