‘Every day of the week’: NRL in disbelief as Warriors denied penalty try

A contentious telephone connected the changeable of halftime has marred a 14-8 triumph for Newcastle, aft the Warriors were denied what seemed a wide chopped punishment effort moments earlier the break.

Trailing 8-6 with nether 60 seconds near successful the opening half, Dallin Watene-Zelezniak seemed to people an evident punishment effort aft Greg Marzhew tackled the Kiwi flyer successful mid-air successful the in-goal, lone for the Bunker to intervene.

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The antheral upstairs confirmed that Marzhew had tackled DWZ illegally successful the air, and contempt nary different Newcastle subordinate being wrong cooee, the officials deemed a punishment capable for the contact.

Fox Sports commentator Michael Ennis seemed successful disbelief aft the Warriors were denied the go-ahead try.

“Our crippled throws up immoderate doozies immoderate times, and this is 1 of them. The Bunker intelligibly says Watene-Zelezniak catches it cleanly, yet he’s tackled successful the aerial by Greg Marzhew, and it’s not a punishment try.

“If helium catches that cleanly and conscionable falls to the ground, helium scores that each time of the week. So I’m not definite however that’s not a punishment effort successful this time and age.”

On-field referee Chris Butler kept it abbreviated and crisp erstwhile quizzed by New Zealand skipper Shaun Johnson: “We ne'er springiness punishment tries for that.”

Warriors’ caput manager Andrew Webster was near confused implicit the on-field ruling.

“I don’t cognize 100 per cent the rule, but if he’s going up successful the aerial to drawback it, and helium gets taken retired successful the aerial and he’s coming down to enactment the shot down, helium was going to people the try,” Webster said post-match.

“The lone crushed helium didn’t people is due to the fact that helium was tackled successful the air.

“I don’t recognize if that’s the nonstop rule, oregon if there’s a clause for that peculiar play erstwhile you’re attacking and you drawback the shot successful the air, but it deadset looked similar helium was going to people for each money, and the lone crushed helium didn’t is due to the fact that helium got tackled successful the air.”

Despite the slippery transportation successful the Hunter, stand-in fullback David Armstorng gave location fans a glimpse of his assurance minutes into the clash, putting a heavy footwear into the Warriors’ in-goal midway done a set, lone to person a cleanable bounce to unit a enactment dropout.

While the men successful reddish and bluish wouldn’t capitalise successful that moment, a bobble from Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad connected his ain tryline opened the doorway for Tyson Gamble to dive connected the escaped shot and unfastened the scoring for the location side.

A 2nd impromptu footwear from Armstrong minutes aboriginal would pb to yet different Nicoll-Klokstad bobble, and yet a punishment successful beforehand of the sticks to widen the pb to eight.

However it was the rookie fullback that opened the doorway for the Warriors to onslaught back, dropping the Steeden successful a regular hit-up, gifting New Zealand cardinal tract presumption conscionable 45m out.

While the likes of Shaun Johnson and CNK appeared the astir apt to make thing successful attack, it was the skipper Tohu Harris that delivered a cleanable short-pass to Dylan Walker to nonstop the inferior nether the sticks, and chopped the people backmost to 8-6.

The Knights would clasp the slender pb into the break, seemingly owed to the Bunker’s determination not to grant the effort to DWZ connected the changeable of halftime.

The gloomy upwind acceptable the code for an limb wrestle arsenic the heavens opened up for the 2nd stanza, unleashing the elements connected the 16,094 Newcastle faithful.

The Warriors looked to person gone up successful the 51st infinitesimal erstwhile Watene-Zelezniak looked to person scored successful the corner, lone for it to beryllium called backmost for an obstruction.

League large Steve Roach was fuming implicit the telephone aft Jackson Hastings wrapped his arms astir decoy runner Jackson Ford earlier hitting the turf.

Although the Warriors were capable to snag a punishment extremity to propulsion level soon after, a abbreviated shot from Hastings to Daniel Saifiti sealed the effect for the Knights successful beforehand of their drenched location fans.