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Just providing the stills of Cronk grabbing RFM as he attacked the deft grubber put in by Nu Brown:
https://imgur.com/a/0VCCCoP
As you can see from both angles, Cronk clearly initiates the contact and even wraps the arms around RFM on the kick chase. Manu is then allowed to escort the ball over the dead-ball line, providing the Roosters with a 7 tackle set which they score from.
If you watch the whole play go through, RFM is about 2-3 feet from Manu in goal (The only chaser, credit to him), but was given no opportunity to chase through. Whenever this happens to us (With the Bulldogs being the ones infringing), we are constantly penalised/ binned. Here, Cronk gets nothing.
Again, this isn't why we lost 38-12, but in the context of the early battle of the game it helped shape the onslaught that was to come.
https://imgur.com/a/0VCCCoP
As you can see from both angles, Cronk clearly initiates the contact and even wraps the arms around RFM on the kick chase. Manu is then allowed to escort the ball over the dead-ball line, providing the Roosters with a 7 tackle set which they score from.
If you watch the whole play go through, RFM is about 2-3 feet from Manu in goal (The only chaser, credit to him), but was given no opportunity to chase through. Whenever this happens to us (With the Bulldogs being the ones infringing), we are constantly penalised/ binned. Here, Cronk gets nothing.
Again, this isn't why we lost 38-12, but in the context of the early battle of the game it helped shape the onslaught that was to come.