WHAT’S GAMBLING REALLY COSTING YOU? Set a deposit limit. For Free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.<\/p>\n In the latter stages of the second half, Rabbitohs forward Lachlan Hubner looked certain to score after receiving the ball from teammate Brandon Smith who had produced a one-on-one strip near the try-line.<\/p>\n The only player standing in Hubner\u2019s way was Crichton. <\/p>\n But instead of focusing solely on Hubner, Crichton ran into and made contact with referee Klein before attempting to hold the Rabbitohs forward up over the try-line.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the Bunker will be pretty disappointed when they look back at it,\u201d former NRL premiership-winner Michael Ennis said on Fox League.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s no doubt that he knew exactly what he was doing, Stephen Crichton. <\/p>\n \u201cHe knew that Klein was in the vicinity and he knew that any contact at all that the play was null in void and it was over. <\/p>\n \u201cYes it was a bit of gamesmanship but the officials need to be better than that. <\/p>\n \u201cIf that\u2019s a semi-final and that\u2019s a big moment, we\u2019re (going to have) huge controversy. It was alarming that end-of-vision. Crichton knew exactly what he was doing.\u201d<\/p>\n Ciro questioned on Dogs’ finals hope | 02:04<\/p>\n Fellow NRL great Braith Anasta was also critical of Crichton\u2019s actions, arguing that the Bulldogs skipper should have been focused on making the tackle rather than attempting to milk a decision.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s alarming to me is Crichton should be thinking make the tackle,\u201d Anasta said.<\/p>\n \u201cInstead he\u2019s thinking, how do I milk this? I think he\u2019s a great leader and he\u2019s one of the best captains the Bulldogs have had but I just think that sums up the way they were thinking tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Ennis has teed off on the Bunker over Stephen Crichton\u2019s controversial contact with referee Ashley Klein, claiming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-855106","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\/855106","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=855106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/poster-fallback.png\"\/)
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