Knights coach Adam O’Brien has stated he’ll “advise” his gamers to develop their hair after the Panthers had been awarded a controversial penalty for a hair pull.
Newcastle backrower Tyson Frizell was trying to sort out Penrith five-eighth Jarome Luai within the 56th minute with the hosts holding a 14-8 lead.
Frizell clearly didn’t deliberately pull his opponent’s hair however sadly dragged Luai down in awkward trend, handing the reigning premiers attacking subject place.
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Only two tackles later the Panthers equalised by means of a Jaeman Salmon attempt earlier than Nathan Cleary finally kicked a matchwinning subject objective in golden level.
Asked concerning the incident within the post-match press convention, Frizell turned to his coach and stated “should I answer that?”.
O’Brien gave him permission to talk freely and the backrower stated he thinks gamers with lengthy hair have to have it tied up.
“When his hair is hanging halfway down his back and I am going to make a tackle it is incidental,” Frizell stated.
“I guess if I do pull his hair it is classified as a penalty, but it wasn’t intentional and I’d like for him to tie his hair up.”
O’Brien labelled referee Peter Gough’s choice “ridiculous” and stated he may make use of a brand new tactic — nevertheless it may take weeks to introduce.
“Huge (call), it is ridiculous, otherwise I will advise them all to start growing their hair long,” O’Brien stated.
“To try and get an advantage, it was ridiculous.”
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“It was incidental, I wasn’t going for any hair or anything like that but when it is hanging half down your back, it’s hard not to grab a bit of it,” Frizell added.
“The players need a bit of credit, they are just trying to make tackles and get people on the ground… there must be a lot of innuendo the players are out there to maim each other, that’s not the case,” O’Brien stated.
Panthers coach Ivan Cleary refused to talk about the essential penalty however advised the Knights additionally had been on the appropriate finish of some doubtful choices from the officers.
“I don’t want to talk about referees… they might have got a few good ones too, we’ll keep it at that,” Cleary stated.
“I think we’ve all got views but we don’t want to turn it into a headline. Happy to get the win and move on.”
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