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NRL head of football Graham Annesley has all but confirmed that Bunker official Liam Kennedy will be stood down this week following his baffling decision to not send Bulldogs skipper Stephen Crichton to the sin bin for a tackle that will now rub him out for one game.
“It was purely a poor judgment call. A lot of time and effort goes into getting the referees and the match review committee on the same page with these things.“We haven’t done appointments yet, but you can probably gauge from my comments that it was a serious error.”The Crichton incident was one of a season-high 30 penalties for high contact that continues a worrying trend in recent weeks.
Overall this season, 18 of the 23 players who received grade 2 or 3 charges for high contact were either sent to the sin bin or sent off, which shows referees and the MRC are usually on the same page but still not at the desired level. “Eighty per cent does give you an indication that across the course of the season, the referees have been reasonably consistent with this.
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