‘Blown away’: NRL commentators in disbelief over forward pass bunker call

With 10 minutes left in the Eels match against the Brisbane Broncos, Parramatta spread the ball wide, with captain Clint Gutherson batting the ball on to Blake Ferguson who seemed to run across the line.

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But referee Henry Perenara incredibly called it a knock on, despite the ball not touching the ground.

Luckily the scoreline was 26-12 so it didn‘t play too much of a part.

But it meant the Eels could challenge the call as a knock on.

An uncertain Fox League commentary team of Andrew Voss and Michael Ennis were baffled by the call.

“So they challenge the knock on, but it‘s a pass isn’t it, it’s a tip on,” Voss said. “Can you call that a knock on, he’s tipped that on deliberately. But he can’t rule it. How can the bunker even describe that as a knock on? The bunker, if they’re following protocol have to throw it back, we can’t rule on that, it’s a pass.”

The moment in question – pass or tip on?

Perenara explained the issue.

“It‘s my mistake,” he said. “I’ve called a knock on, but that’s why it’s was challenged because it was a tip on so we can challenge that because it’s not a pass.

“It‘s not a try because I’ve blown my whistle so it’s my mistake.”

Gutherson blew up saying: “Why are you blowing it?”

Voss said he was in disbelief about it but accepted that it was just a mistake.

But the rugby league world also learned that a tip on is not a pass.

“We are two weeks out from our finals series …” Ennis said.

“So are you telling me from now in a try scoring situation the bunker can rule on a tip on, which we all call a pass,” Voss said. “So they can actually rule on a tip on forward pass if it‘s a tip on, because it’s not a pass. I’m blown away by that.”

"It's my mistake"

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