"What did you think of the try awarded to Roosters forward Jason Ryles in the game against Parramatta?
The decision to award the try was wrong, Jason Ryles lost the ball. The referee Jason Robinson was in the best position he could be and was looking straight at Ryles who was trying to score. To the naked eye and even on the first video replay it looks like a try every day of the week. It is only in slow motion that we realized there was a problem with the grounding of the ball.
You cannot expect Robinson to send the decision upstairs when every indicator looked like it was a certain try. It is easy to ask why he didn’t check it in hindsight, but the reason he didn’t was because of the same as all of us watching it, none of us knew that he had lost the ball until we had seen the slow motion replay."
Harrigan has done his job in terms of defending the referee but he needs to look at the process the referees go through in terms of referring decisions to the video referee. Clearly Ryles didn't get up confident and he knew he'd lost the ball and Hindy got up looking like he'd prevented the try. The captain's challenge would've definitely helped in this situation and would've prevented such a big mistake being made. You've got 4 officials on the field and not 1 even said "just have a look". They all thought it was a try and gave it. Harrigan should just man up, admit that his referee made the wrong decision and accept it, don't try and defend him because, in this case you're argument is school yard at best.
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Typical scummy response from the leader of the pink poof pack.