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Just how can you award a penalty try if the player who had it prior to the other being taken out drops it? Even taking in to account the fact that his foot contacted the ball it was after it had hit the ground and he never regained control of it.Just went back and looked at it, you are deadset correct, drops it, and it hits the ground before his boot makes contact.
This game never ceases to surprise...I seem to remember a similar thing with Slater where he dropped the ball then kicked it for himself and went through to score, bunker adjudicates and awards try...Referee Ashley Klein both times.......
Watch: Slater drop-kick try blunder ‘worst call in history’
WATCH: This try to Billy Slater is one of the most bizarre calls you’ll ever see by a referee. The player admits to dropping the ball, yet the try was awarded in a call which left experts gobsmacked.
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WATCH: Billy Slater drop-kick try blunder ‘worst call in history’
Staff writersFOX SPORTS
April 20, 2018 9:03PM
TALK the game up?
The referees aren’t making it easy.
League fans and experts alike were gobsmacked by the decision to award Billy Slater a try where the champion fullback dropped the ball before kicking it into the in-goal and grounding the ball.
A joyless Slater admitted he dropped the ball to the official, yet strangely referee Ashley Klein sent the vision to the Bunker and claimed to Brisbane captain Darius Boyd that Slater made a genuine attempt to drop kick the ball in one of the most bizarre calls you’ll ever see.
“He drops the ball and then he kicks it,” Anasta said on FOX League.
“That was a shocking call.
“… for one, they (the refs) should know the rules.”
Veteran commentator Andrew Voss said during the call, according to the NRL rule book ‘the drop kick has to be a genuine shot at posts’.
Premiership winning hooker Michael Ennis added; “it has to be a genuine attempt, it has to be.”