Melbourne will combat the damaging touch fee towards its skipper Harry Lend, with the membership in the hunt for readability from the NRL over his contentious sin-binning all over the loss to Cronulla on the weekend.
Lend was once despatched to the sidelines simply ahead of half-time in Saturday’s fit for making reputedly harmless touch with Sharks kicker Dan Atkinson all over his follow-through.
The 26-year-old was once introduced a $1,000 nice for an early in charge plea upcoming he was once cited for a grade-one bad touch offence.
However Lend stated the membership would safe the fee on the NRL judiciary on Tuesday night time, the place he would seem by means of video hyperlink.
“There was no intention to put the kicker in any (dangerous) position and I don’t feel he was in a dangerous position,” Lend stated on Monday.
“You can look back at a lot of incidents that have occurred this year, and a lot of those didn’t result in too much, or a lot were a lot more (dangerous), and didn’t result in a sin-bin.
“It’s extra so the figuring out as smartly.”
Storm teammate Cameron Munster said he watched other matches over the weekend and questioned why Grant’s offence was deemed worthy of a sin-bin.
He pointed out a hit on Sydney Roosters halfback Sam Walker by a Warriors player that didn’t even result in a penalty.
“I’m satisfied for referees in our sport to put together the ones selections however you’ll be able to’t have one rule for one sport and nearest exit clear of it in numerous video games,” Munster stated.
“I simply need a bit of extra consistency, I feel that’s what everybody needs, so if that’s the sequence within the sand nearest we remember the fact that.”
The star five-eighth said the team viewed the Grant incident as a group on Monday and he understood the intent of the referee and bunker.
He said while there was no malice from Grant, the hooker could have looked more closely where he was going.
“It was once most probably extra of a clumsy business the place if he had his visions at the goal he most probably wouldn’t have clash his legs,” Munster stated.
“I do know there wasn’t a lot harm there however we’ve viewable in video games, sadly Lachie Ilias has had a damaged leg, so I do know what path they need to exit, however as I stated there simply must be consistency.”
NRL head of football elite competitions Graham Annesley said at his weekly address on Monday there had been no league-wide crackdown on players putting pressure on kickers.
“There was refuse directive given to compare officers or the fit evaluate committee about any crackdown on incidents like that,” Annesley stated.
“This is purely a discretionary subject for the referees to virtue their logic in figuring out what motion must be taken in any incident of alleged foul play games.”
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