Finals Week 3 vs Panthers - 4:00pm Sunday 27th of September - Accor Stadium

[KPGreatness]

Like I said never meant to win, they struggled to break us so naturally the refs had to do something.

if Holbrook is genuine he will go ballistic at the refs, I’ll even cover the bill. This is ****ing disgusting

 

[luke46]

I only saw it quick, but I thought it wasn’t a hip drop.

 

[HarVeeGee13]

Hip drop. Broken leg. Not even a sin bin.

 

[Die Hard]

Absolutely ****ing disgusting. Absolutely crock of ****. Total ********.

 

[jamesgould]

I only saw it quick, but I thought it wasn’t a hip drop.

I think the main factor was the tackle above pushing his body in the opposite way to his leg was caught. Unlucky for Phoenix.

 

[bremsstrahlung]

Horrible injury. Feel for Cleary.

It’s a wet game. Crossland is just trying to tackle him. His leg gets caught.

Send off is absolutely huge call. I don’t think that’s a send off. I don’t think there’s malice in that at all.

Anyway. Up against it again.

 

[KPGreatness]

I think the main factor was the tackle above pushing his body in the opposite way to his leg was caught. Unlucky for Phoenix.

Main factor is one guy is named Cleary and one team is called Penrith

 

[HarVeeGee13]

It’s not even a penalty.

 

[jamesgould]

Main factor is one guy is named Cleary and one team is called Penrith

I'm meaning the injury.

 

[Haku’sAfro85]

I think I’m going to give the game away…. It’s no good for my mental health.

 

[mozza]

Cheating ****ing ****s. Where is the precedent for that being a ****ing send off? **** die Sutton and whoever’s in the ****ing bunker.

 

[Beatell]

All year a hip drop has been max 10 in the bin. Until today, I hat blaming refs but we are not getting a good shake today. We still got this though. Let’s gets some!!!

 

[Seano]

Brandy just described the tackle and exactly why it wasn't a "hip drop"; Francis hitting Cleary from the other angle changed the position of Cleary relative to Crossland. Phoenix makes "no action" other than hanging on...it's just unlucky, but they've absolutely made that decision based on the extent of the injury and who it was to.

Terrible for Cleary, but it's a brutal sport (and again, why I never begrudge players taking the money). Knights have been robbed here.

 

[JOJO82]

When Couchman did the hip drop on Hopgood and Hopgood did his ACL there was no sin or send off....this was influenced because who it was, what a BS decision.

 

[Matty James]

Sin bin at absolute MINIMUM. Not a send off if it was anyone other than the Knights. The NRL have got their way.

Can’t believe this crap.

 

[Tim]

Surely they can look at that tackle and realise there were mitigating factors. Crosslands hips and legs are already on the ground as Cleary twists. The upper body of Crossland is what catches his legs

 

[listo]

Going to be a tough game for the fans to watch now, but I hope the boys dig in and don’t let it blow out. The rest of this game is character building for our title run next year.

 

[Battler]

It's an accident. Sure, bin him for the optics. But there was no malice in what Phoenix did.

 

[jamesgould]

Well if we are to pull off a miracle win, I think our set finishes need to dramatically improve. Kicks have been non-threatening so far, we haven't looked like scoring, or catching Penrith deep in their half so far.

And on Crossland, he'll serve his suspension for the Kiwis, so a slight silver lining?

 

[Macca89]

I’m still backing us to win this. Just need to move the ball. We opened them up early on both edges and we can do it again