Manly coach Anthony Seibold has blasted the “softest penalty ever” because the Broncos pinched a 13-12 Magic Spherical thriller on Friday evening.
Having fought again from 12-0 down, Manly had arrange a grandstand end by drawing stage within the 71st minute after Raymond Vaega attempt.
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However with 5 minutes left, controversy erupted after the Broncos unfold the ball huge on the fourth sort out.
Because it got here in direction of Deine Mariner, the quilt defence got here throughout with Tommy Talau falling off however knocking the Broncos winger to the bottom, earlier than Jaxson Paulo got here into to wrap up the play.
To the shock of the Sea Eagles and the commentators, referee Todd Smith blew a penalty for a excessive shot.
It gave the Broncos subject place and halfback Jock Madden slotted the sector purpose handy Brisbane the 2 factors.
Having seen Manly struggle their manner again into the match, coach Anthony Seibold blasted the decision in his post-match press convention.
“Effectively we haven’t misplaced a sport this 12 months by greater than two scores, so we fought actually onerous and we now have performed some actually good footy,” Seibold mentioned.
“I assumed tonight they scored a attempt once we had a participant within the sin bin.
“I’m undecided when the final time a participant was sin-binned for being off-side at marker 40 meters out from the attempt line.
“It was a very robust name on us notably if you evaluate it or distinction it to we go from dummyhalf down the opposite finish of the sector and it turns into a six once more after they’re off-side from marker.
“So I don’t fairly get that. I don’t fairly get that as a result of it wasn’t a try-scoring scenario.
“And I assumed the final penalty let’s be honest dinkum it’s one of many softest penalties ever.
“So it’s sort out 5 the man was on the ground, probably a knock-on, I believe it was Jackson Paulo who dived on him.
“I imply he stays down as he simply regarded round there and he wasn’t so it was robust.
“However finally they had been too good and so they had been in a position to take their likelihood.”
Daly Cherry-Evans mentioned he didn’t realise till he noticed it on the large display screen and mentioned “we would have been onerous completed by”.
“However that’s footy. You get them some weeks, some weeks you don’t get them and so they had been ok to ice it on the finish,” he added.
And the commentators had been on the identical wavelength, blasting the choice that finally determined the match.
“A very robust play 5 penalty gave Brisbane a possibility and what a second for Jock Madden,” Michael Ennis mentioned on Fox League.
“He stepped up early within the sort out depend and positioned himself superbly and iced it for Brisbane.
“It was a warfare on the market.”
Mal Meninga mentioned it was a brutal name, notably when Manly deserved the 2 factors..
“That penalty proper on the finish of the sport was a fairly harsh one,” Meninga mentioned.
“And that’s when Jock Madden clearly kicked the sector purpose off the again of that.
“I really thought Manly ought to have received the sport.”
The Oracle X account posted: “What an absolute farce. How comfortable has our sport turn into?
“That IS NOT A PENALTY. You’ll be able to’t determine a sport like that!
“Simply garbage.”
One other fan tweeted: “That was not a penalty! Not a excessive sort out! Can’t consider they simply wrecked this sport! Bloody refs bloody bunker bloody silly excessive sort out guidelines absolute bullc**p.”
Nevertheless, there have been big issues when Broncos enforcer Payne Haas limped off the sector late within the sport with what regarded like a severe leg damage.
Extremely he returned late within the sport, having suffered a toe damage.
Channel 9 additionally reported his leg “misplaced energy”.
“It’s a bit of unusual is that he’s misplaced energy in his decrease leg,” Mason mentioned.
“They’re going to strap him up and see how he runs on it to check his health.”
Coach Kevin Walters mentioned post-match: “He acquired a knee to the calf which triggered a nerve downside in his massive toe, however he needs to be OK for subsequent week.”
It had been a tricky evening for Haas after information broke of his father being arrested within the Philippines over drug trafficking fees.
