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Message: [QUOTE="McHunt, post: 3264373, member: 9853"] [I]NRL head of football, [B]Graham Annesley[/B] dismisses [B]Wayne Bennett:[/B][/I] "We always have to reserve the right for players who have committed major offences to be picked up during the game whether it’s immediately or in the following play because that can have a big impact on the game. These days, if a player is put on report or sent to the sin bin, then that has an impact on the team that was offended against because they get a free interchange if the player was placed on report. And they get to activate their 18th man if the player was sent to the sin bin." “So just suggesting serious incidents should be left up to the match review committee if they’re missed during the run of play, I don’t think that cuts the mustard. In the case of major incidents that would result in a player potentially being either placed on report, sin binned or sent off, because of the implications it has for the team that’s been fouled, sometimes we will have to go back and take action.” “The NRL agrees that going back in time for relatively minor incidents is probably not worth stopping the game for. Wayne’s got a point. If it’s a minor incident, then, yes, I think it’s probably something that can be left if it’s missed during the run of play.” “It’s no different to a referee, they use discretion when they look at incidents. We’ve been doing a lot of work with the referees to try and get them all on the same page about degrees of seriousness. We have been giving them video examples of what would normally constitute a player being placed on report, what would constitute a player being sent to the sin bin and what would constitute a player being sent off." “Of course, there will always be occasional instances where people don’t agree with their judgment. That’s rugby league, that’s life.” McHunt [/QUOTE]

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