{"id":59867,"date":"2021-04-18T21:57:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T21:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=59867"},"modified":"2021-04-19T00:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T00:58:37","slug":"storm-admit-exploiting-nrl-interchange-loophole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=59867","title":{"rendered":"Storm admit exploiting NRL interchange loophole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Melbourne Storm have admitted to taking advantage of loophole regarding free interchanges, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Munster was taken from the field <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/live-scores\/storm-v-roosters-nrl-2021\/321063\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"in the Storm&#x27;s big win over the Roosters\">in the Storm&#x27;s big win over the Roosters<\/a> but returned shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>The star five-eighth was taken from the field and replaced by Nelson Asofa-Solomona, before coming back on moments later for Christian Welch.<\/p>\n<p>He was off the field for less than 30 seconds. A team is allowed a free interchange if a player is &quot;fouled and injured by a player who is dismissed from the field, sin binned or placed on report&quot; and only applies &quot;when the injured player is immediately replaced,&quot; according to the NRL&#x27;s rulebook.<\/p>\n<p>Roosters enforcer Victor Radley was sin-binned over the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Munster was a tactical one,&quot; Storm general manager Frank Ponissi told The Daily Telegraph<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&quot;There was nothing wrong with him. He said Radley hardly got him.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;To be brutally honest we were surprised Radley was sin-binned.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The NRL <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/head-knock-concussion-hia-league-to-make-changes-melbourne-storm-harry-grant-cameron-munster\/b4ab0dcb-2ceb-4fd1-82b2-b9f96673885f\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"will reportedly consider stricter rules for bringing players off the field\">will reportedly consider stricter rules for bringing players off the field<\/a> for head injury assessments after a weekend of controversy.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He passed his on-field test but we wanted to be doubly sure,&quot; Ponissi said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Our main doctor was in the dressing room doing an HIA with Ryan Papenhuyzen.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Our second doctor checked the vision then sent Cameron straight back out.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"\" title=\"clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Melbourne Storm have admitted to taking advantage of loophole regarding free interchanges, according to reports. Munster was taken from the field in the Storm&#x27;s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=59867\" title=\"Storm admit exploiting NRL interchange loophole\">[&#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\/59867"}],"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=59867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59869,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59867\/revisions\/59869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}