Once were Loiners wrote:
In the lead up to Gannon's try where he picked the ball off the ground Austin bumps into the KR player who dropped the ball to keep him out of the play. The contact is more deliberate than Martin's the previous week. It also lacks force but the only difference is the KR player doesn't fall over as a result of the contact. Hopefully the derision over the Martin ban has some effect. Neither was worth a penalty let alone a ban.
The Austin won, the opposition player was still kind of juggling with the ball, and Austin pushes him just as it starts to fall away from him, and Austin commuted cannot just stop, its all split second stuff, and a push is not illegal on the ball carrier, Austins perfectly allowed to do that. But i thought they might pull him for it, but as you say maybe the Martin ban which no one in the game accept the MRP thought was worthy of a penalty or a ban.
