Kevin Locke makes a dive for the try line for a disallowed try against the Canterbury Bulldogs. Photo / Richard Robinson
All teams experience the rough with the smooth in refereeing decisions, even in the pinpoint business of video forensics.
The Warriors got a bit of rough when the guy in the sky ruled out a Kevin Locke try that would have swung the game their way against the Bulldogs.
Locke's
angled run off a Feleti Mateo pass saw him skid into the corner but the man with his finger on the button, Pat Reynolds, ruled Locke had not grounded the ball.
Common sense said that, somewhere in the tangle, ball would have touched ground. Replays appeared to show otherwise, with no conclusive proof of the try. In this exactness, sport goes out of its way to deny rather than reward attack.
The Bulldogs dodged a bullet and then had the Warriors in the gun, with a scintillating length-of-the-field try and another clever score to seal the game.
