{"id":291205,"date":"2023-04-29T16:40:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T16:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=291205"},"modified":"2023-04-29T17:59:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T17:59:11","slug":"bristling-clearys-damning-response-to-panthers-binning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=291205","title":{"rendered":"Bristling Cleary's damning response to Panther's binning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Panthers<\/a> coach Ivan Cleary<\/a> took aim at the NRL<\/a>'s bosses after interchange hooker Soni Luke\ufeff was sin-binned for a hip-drop tackle in Penrith's shock defeat to Wests Tigers on Saturday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If previous cases are an indication, Luke is set to be sidelined after performing a hip-drop tackle on Tigers forward Alex Twal during the Panthers' 12-8 loss to the embattled club at Bathurst's Carrington Park.<\/p>\n

But when Cleary was asked about the incident in his press conference, he took a dig at the NRL over its handling of the hip-drop drama.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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"I've seen a few like that now, and the only way to avoid it is to let go … How do you tell a footballer to let go? That's my question," Cleary said.<\/p>\n

"Honestly, it was like (Broncos five-eighth) Ezra Mam's last week<\/a>. He got suspended. The only way he can avoid that, as far as I could see, is if he lets go."<\/p>\n

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As the second man in, Luke grabbed Twal around the waste, lifted his boots off the ground and used gravity and his weight to bring the Tigers forward down.<\/p>\n

Mam copped a one-game suspension for the hip-drop tackle mentioned by Cleary\ufeff.<\/p>\n

The playmaker was sin-binned and accepted an early guilty plea after performing the move on Eels forward Matt Doorey in Darwin last Friday night.<\/p>\n

"The game makes the decisions so I dunno (where the game is heading in regards to hip-drop tackles). I hear the same questions each week and no one's got the answers," Cleary said on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

"Hip-drops are a bit like crusher tackles; when they were first introduced they looked different to what they look (like) do now. Somehow we blend them in all together (like they're) the same.<\/p>\n

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"I don't know how you tell a player to let go deliberately. It's just not in any players' make-up and it's not an instinctive thing to do."<\/p>\n

\"Brooks<\/p>\n

Panthers co-captain Isaah Yeo also made it clear he was confused by the NRL's stance on hip-drop tackles.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"You just have to have an awareness, I guess, but then it's a split-second thing," Yeo said in the press conference.<\/p>\n

"You'd feel like you're in a really good position and all of a sudden you're in a bad one, just like that, so it's a hard one.<\/p>\n

"I feel like you know the bad ones and then the 50-50 ones. The ones that really hurt someone, you can tell. They're a lot different those ones, I reckon, to these little ones going on at the moment."<\/p>\n

Cleary left no doubt over who he was blaming.<\/p>\n

"I feel for the referees, actually, and whoever's making these calls," Cleary said.<\/p>\n

"Because that's what they've been told and they're doing it."\ufeff<\/p>\n

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Panthers coach Ivan Cleary took aim at the NRL's bosses after interchange hooker Soni Luke\ufeff was sin-binned for a hip-drop tackle in Penrith's shock defeat […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291207,"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\/291205"}],"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=291205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291210,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291205\/revisions\/291210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/291207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}