{"id":124068,"date":"2021-09-04T11:43:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T11:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=124068"},"modified":"2021-09-04T19:00:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T19:00:29","slug":"calls-for-bunker-axing-over-ridiculous-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=124068","title":{"rendered":"Calls for bunker axing over &#039;ridiculous&#039; decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rugby league great Brad Fittler has tipped another NRL bunker official to cop the sack after South Sydney centre Campbell Graham was awarded a controversial try despite an illegal push.<\/p>\n<p>During the first half of <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-live-scores-2021-brisbane-broncos-newcastle-knights-north-queensland-cowboys-manly-sea-eagles-south-sydney-rabbitohs-st-george-illawarra-dragons-start-time-results-news-for-round-25\/a1875f2f-794b-4e14-b180-d40ba01f73cb\" title=\"South Sydney&#x27;s win over St George Illawarra\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Sydney&#x27;s win over St George Illawarra<\/a>, Rabbitohs five-eighth Benji Marshall put up a high ball, which Campbell pounced on once the footy was loose in the in-goal area, before crossing for his side&#x27;s third try of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The four-pointer, which was awarded by veteran referee Matt Cecchin <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/matt-cecchin-on-cameron-smith-and-referees-melbourne-storm\/b7a9debc-cacc-4aed-8785-edaa19818e0c\" title=\"who was officiating his final game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in his final game<\/a>, wasn&#x27;t held up by the bunker for a review despite replays showing an obvious push by Graham on Dragons winger Mathew Feagai.<\/p>\n<p>Graham&#x27;s push sent Feagai crashing into Dragons fullback Tyrell Sloan as the youngster tried to catch the ball, only to be put off by his teammate plunging into him.<\/p>\n<p>The Rabbitohs try ruling left Fittler staggered in Nine&#x27;s commentary.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"b926240f-8db3-46b2-9d62-1ace456e1da8\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b926240f-8db3-46b2-9d62-1ace456e1da8\" alt=\"Shove overlooked in controversial Bunnies try\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;If anything I think&#x27;s it dangerous &#8230; (Graham) is lucky something more sinister didn&#x27;t happen out of that,&quot; Fittler said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I can&#x27;t believe they didn&#x27;t see that and change the ruling. That&#x27;s ridiculous. Someone else is going to miss a job next week.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Fittler&#x27;s suggestion that tonight&#x27;s bunker official \u2013 referee Chris Butler \u2013 could be sacked follows the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/henry-perenara-stood-down-latrell-mitchell-souths-drama-roosters-trent-robinson-on-joseph-manu\/6d521122-d706-48ed-8734-790a5c27bee7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"axing of Henry Perenara\">axing of Henry Perenara<\/a> over his highly criticised handling of <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2021-roosters-rabbitohs-latrell-mitchell-joey-manu-wayne-bennett-phil-gould\/ea4b7cb6-80a1-4fd4-b030-18c0cca1825b\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Latrell Mitchell&#x27;s hit on Joseph Manu\">Latrell Mitchell&#x27;s hit on Joseph Manu<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That should have been a penalty,&quot; said Broncos great Darren Lockyer of Graham&#x27;s push on Feagai.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He pushed him in the back. It wasn&#x27;t much of a push, but to me, that constitutes a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Dragons have been making some basic errors, which are inviting the Rabbits to the try line.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But that should have been a penalty.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong><em>Additional reporting with Marc Churches<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Rugby league great Brad Fittler has tipped another NRL bunker official to cop the sack after South Sydney centre Campbell Graham was awarded a controversial <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=124068\" title=\"Calls for bunker axing over &#039;ridiculous&#039; decision\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124070,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124068\/revisions\/124070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}