During Thursday night’s game against the Rabbitohs, Panthers star Izack Tago was sin binned due to a horrific hip drop.
With an early guilty plea, Tago will only miss one game; if he challenges it in court and loses, he will miss two.
Panthers supporters should be relieved that Tago will only miss one game if he accepts the match review committee’s penalty, given that Lachlan Galvin and Max Plath were both suspended for two games for similar tackles earlier in the season.
In addition to the Penrith center, Souths back rower Jacob Host was also suspended for two games (with an early guilty plea) for making dangerous contact with Panthers halfback Brad Schneider on Thursday night.
Tago failed to return after halftime after being sent to the bin and placed on report for a hip drop tackle on 20-year-old fullback
, who needed extensive ankle strapping from that point on.
Cooper Cronk commented, “He lost his legs, swung around the back, and the weight is directly on his ankle.”
After the referee sent Tago to the bin, he continued, “You can’t argue with that.”
Warren Smith stated in commentary, “You see him come down with all that weight on the outside lower leg of Jye Gray, who knew he had a problem immediately.” “And when the Match Review Committee looks into that, you’d think he’ll have a problem after tonight.”
With two tries against the undermanned squad, the Rabbitohs swiftly made Penrith pay for their carelessness before committing a terrible defensive error of their own.
The Rabbitohs conceded three straight six-agains despite defending close to their own tryline as the Panther attack started to pick up pace halfway through the half.
Referee Adam Gee then imposed the law on the Rabbitohs for their persistent violations after Cody Walker handed away a penalty for a high shot.
There are three ten-meter ones. He declared, “Another one goes (off for a sin bin).”
Jai Arrow of Souths, however, was obviously not paying attention as he tried to tear the ball out in a three-man tackle.
Referee Adam Gee was forced to send him to the bin after giving him his marching instructions for the illegal theft.
“You just gave away three on the ten meters, a head-high, and then we go to that,” the referee said in response to Cameron Murray’s appeal. This place has awful discipline. Make it right!
“That was really dumb of Jai Arrow,” Cronk remarked. After warning them, he revealed the punishment.
“What the hell was Jai Arrow thinking?” he continued. His squad is presently standing behind the tryline with a try to the Panthers after getting off to a strong start against a team that has won three straight games.
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