NRL: Felise Kaufusi is set to miss two weeks for dangerous contact, ruling him out for Dolphins' must win round 27.
NRL head of football Graham Annesley has refuted claims head office has called for a crackdown on high contact before the finals and says it’s not up to referees to play the role of doctors to assess if players are injured or not.
“We’ve got to protect the players because we don’t want to see high shots. I get it, we want it out of the game,” Fitzgibbon said. “I’m all for the protection of players, but there’s a balance with how bad they are and the significance.” Annesley explained why Iro was sent to the sin for a tackle that ordinarily would have only resulted in a penalty, and defended the referee for not giving a warning to the Sharks given they don’t have to during the run of play.
“In normal circumstances, that might have resulted in a penalty. In this particular case, it was the series of events that took place relatively quickly over a short period of time all for foul play.“It was clear that it was the referee that made this decision .”
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