Cleary fumes over \u2018really harsh\u2019 controversial sin binning<\/a><\/p>\n‘That’s NOT a professional foul!’ | 06:43<\/p>\n
Grant clashed with referee Grant Atkins earlier in the contest after Oryn Keeley was sin-binned for repeated infringements, telling the referee \u201cwe\u2019re not playing touch footy\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s wet, it\u2019s slippery. It\u2019s not going to be the cleanest game. It goes both ways,\u201d Grant added. <\/p>\n
Coach Craig Bellamy didn\u2019t have a strong opinion on the six-again calls on Thursday night specifically, but said he generally does not believe they are \u201cparticularly good for the game\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d have to go back and have a look at them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt really hurts a team when that happens. At the end of the day, as long as they\u2019re consistent it\u2019s okay if that\u2019s the way that they want to go with six agains.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bellamy was, however, left scratching his head as to why it took a 22-point deficit in 29 <\/p>\n
\u201cIf you get 22 points behind Penrith and what they\u2019ve done over the past four or five years, they know how to win games,\u201d Bellamy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were probably never really going to be coming back.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just thought our guys really put the effort in the second half that we needed in the first half or the first 20 minutes and we just didn\u2019t get it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Panthers remain in the hunt for 1st | 06:18<\/p>\n
It was an even more disappointing effort considering the club had honoured prop forward Tui Kamikamica by giving him a guard of honour pre-game.<\/p>\n
Kamikamica, a 142-game veteran with the Storm, was forced into retirement after suffering a stroke in March.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been great for us. He\u2019s obviously a wonderful player but even more than that, he\u2019s a great clubman and just a great person,\u201d Bellamy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat he\u2019s done for our club in the time he\u2019s been here, that would be very, very hard to repeat. <\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone loves him. That\u2019s not not just me, it\u2019s everyone in the club. They all love him because he\u2019s such a genuine guy and a real decent guy. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then the other thing is every time he laced his boots on and went out and played, he\u2019d give it his all. He\u2019s been one of the best clubmen that I\u2019ve ever seen, coaching and playing. <\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t give him a bigger rap than that. I\u2019m honoured to have been his coach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Does the NRL want an \u201cexciting game style, exciting tries and tries off kicks\u201d? Well, if they do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-862384","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\/862384","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=862384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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