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After the side made a break down the left-hand side of the field, Clinton Gutherson kicked the ball into open space, which saw Holmes sprint and attempt to regather the ball in the in-goal area against three opposing defenders.<\/p>\n
While Holmes nearly got there to put the ball down for the opening try, it looked as if he was pushed in the back by Xavier Savage, with the contact appearing to disrupt the centre\u2019s momentum as he reached to ground it.<\/p>\n
However, instead of being awarded a penalty or a penalty try, it was labelled as a 20-metre restart.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m confused by that one because when they\u2019re saying two people are competing for the ball, that\u2019s normally when you\u2019ve got two people side by side competing for the ball, but Savage was behind Val,\u201d Young commented.<\/p>\n
Young & Cook baffled by bunker calls | 02:43<\/p>\n
\u201cHe shoves him in the back, but Savage was behind Val and shoves him in the back. The momentum stopped Val from putting the ball down and (there was) no penalty. (Instead it was a) 20-metre restart.<\/p>\n
He was also left confused and frustrated about another decision in the later stages of the match when a one-on-one strip didn\u2019t go their way, even after the Dragons opted to use their captain\u2019s challenge in an attempt to overturn the ruling.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen there was a one-on-one strip decision at the end where the boys challenged it and the bunker\u2019s looking at it in slow-mo,\u201d Young continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut you need to hear what the ref is saying and when he\u2019s saying held to make that decision, so I\u2019m confused about that one as well.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, skipper Damien Cook was left bemused by a contentious decision in the 55th minute that proved to be a vital turning point in the match.<\/p>\n
It appeared that Raiders centre Simi Sasagi knocked Kyle Flanagan\u2019s pass on before it landed in the hands of Xavier Savage, who sprinted 80 metres to put the ball down for a try.<\/p>\n
Canberra Raiders vs St George Illawarra Dragons.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
Despite replays suggesting that they may have been grounds for the Bunker to intervene, they refused to do so and the try was allowed to stand, much to the disbelief of the Dragons and also Fox League analyst Cooper Cronk, who was left speechless.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be honest, it was pretty disappointing but if I can sum it up, even the Canberra Raiders team were pretty shocked at the decision,\u201d Cook added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey didn\u2019t even have a kicker down there and it\u2019s not just us that\u2019s affecting the game, it\u2019s the fans as well. I feel like they deserve better.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know I\u2019m not a professional, but there\u2019s a couple of calls out there (that were interesting). <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s another one where I thought Val was pushed in the back enough to warrant a penalty at least.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St George Illawarra Dragons interim coach Dean Young admits he has been left \u201cconfused\u201d about a number of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-766363","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\/766363","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=766363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}