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Joseph Manu says he caught the ball in Kiwis non-try, but 'it doesn't really matter now'

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What happens when you have an Aussie Ref and an Aussie Bunker and an Aussie Linesman etc etc! in an International Game.

To slow it down to frame by frame may rule half the tries ever scored out. It was a try.

His hand stayed in contact with the ball. Not a knock on.

Imagine if we had lost, the super slow motions in replays should be abolished, a player does not score a try in slow motion, these bunker nuts have become bonkers nuts,The try out wide touched the in goal first then landed on the chalkBrandons try off the foot skimmed the grass but super slow no tryWhy do these people in the bunker really push for no try, especially when the on field referee has already awarded one Get rid of slow motion replays please.

Same with Brandon Smiths try that was disallowed by the stupid Aussie in the bunker - if these were Australian tries the bunker would have awarded the tries. Its the fact in both cases that awarding the tries would have extended the leads by the Kiwis and made it harder for the Aussies. It just shows that international rugby league where Aussies are officiating Australian games is as corrupt as an election in Zimbabwe. The ref had a good game though as he is actually a Brit now living and officiating in Australia. Australians officiating in any way for and Aussie game has to stop, as its just not right. Would be like New Zealand refs officiating in All Black games. The rest of the world would not be happy with that would they? So why does it happen in League?

Joseph facing his own try line and they give it as knock-on?

They seem to be saying that the ball hit the ground constituting a knock on. But if that were the case everytime a player is tackled and the ball hits the ground would also be a knock on. Surely the question is did he have control........... and I think he did.

This kid is going to be around for along long time

Any way.......Zelesniak was awesome he displayed why he should be Captain. Led on the field through his actions, and directed his men well,defensively. Future great.

I saw something after the game ended last night, that took me back some, that was two club team mates, and future stars of this great game, embracing each other, Lattrell for Australia and Manu for NZ. people are comparing Lattrell with Mel Meneinga and, thats not fair, Lattrell plays a different style to big Mel, and he is going to be a great player in his own way, the same said for Manu. last but not least, and with no disrespect to Johnson,my player of the day would of been Waewera Hargraves,remember Kearney would not have anything to do with him, second choice, Brandon Smith.

Until they get neutral refs and there by taking it seriously I for 1 wont watch it, its simply to annoying watching the cheating that goes on endlessly with Australian sport.

Thought Smith disallowed try was more clean cut you could see the ball push the grass down!

Australia think they run the world in league

Headline should read. David Warner and Michael Clark find work outside cricket

They all played well, and I think Johnson would of shared it with every member of the team, including the coaches, I havent seen any comments about the Kiwi coach! whom I think deserves some credit.

Aussie would try anything to prevent kiwis winning. Just look at the calls against the warriors since they joined NRL. Two calls absolute b..... t. From the so-called bunker

What a joke ! Someone sack the â˜bunkim-ref ....that should be â˜ref short for â˜refusal

Id like to see the rule book the bunker used to rule knock on. As I would have thought to knock the ball it has to leave your hand. They seem to think that u need to get 2 hands on the ball to not knock it on.

The bunker guy sounded suspiciously Australian, never a knock on. Kiwis have been up against that bias for decades.