{"id":126650,"date":"2021-09-10T11:15:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T11:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=126650"},"modified":"2021-09-10T13:59:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T13:59:14","slug":"dce-screams-at-ref-after-puzzling-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=126650","title":{"rendered":"DCE screams at ref after puzzling call"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NRL may have some questions to answer next week after Manly centre Morgan Harper missed out on what appeared to be a certain try due to a puzzling forward pass call.<\/p>\n

In the first half against the Melbourne Storm,<\/a> Harper was the recipient of a flick-on pass by Daly Cherry-Evans, but after the centre crossed over to score a try the touch judge ruled the Manly's skipper had committed a forward pass.<\/p>\n

"He wasn't even in position!" Cherry-Evans was heard screaming arguing that the referee was not in a good spot to make the call.<\/p>\n

"How can you call a forward pass?"<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Replays showed the decision to be controversial, with rugby league greats Andrew Johns and Billy Slater left stunned.<\/p>\n

"There is no way in the world that was forward!" Johns said in Nine's commentary.<\/p>\n

"That didn't look forward," Slater added.<\/p>\n

"He's caught the ball in the same position that Daly Cherry-Evans threw it.<\/p>\n

"Daly's objecting that the referee wasn't even in position. The touch judge called it and he wasn't in position."<\/p>\n

Fortunately for Manly, Storm winger Isaac Lumelume was deemed off-side during the play, which handed the Sea Eagles back possession and moments later, Jason Saab scored Manly's first try of the night.<\/p>\n

However it wasn't enough to kickstart Manly as the Storm steamrolled the Sea Eagles 40-12 in the one-sided affair.<\/a><\/p>\n

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