Kevin Walters lashes out, saying, “My contract’s not big enough to pay the fine.”
Following his team’s contentious loss to the Storm, Brisbane Broncos coach Kevin Walters has perhaps crossed the line.
After his team’s 24–16 loss to the Melbourne Storm in Melbourne, Broncos coach Kevin Walters is furious.
In a contest that featured everything, including four sin bins and some animosity that threatened to explode at any moment.
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Pat Carrigan was sin-banned for a contentious hip drop, Herbie Farnworth was sin-banned for a professional foul in the 37th minute, and Aaron Pene of the Storm and Tom Flegler of the Broncos were both sin-banned.
Following the game, Walters was enraged and appeared to be pushing the boundaries of his criticism of the officials.
“I’m a little irritated,” Walters declared. “We have been playing football here for the entire year; that is why we came. We just don’t seem to have a football game.
Since we’ve lost previously, I’ll accept the defeat. However, despite the fact that two strong teams were competing, it never turned into a football match.
Walters responded, “I guess that we were behind on the scoreboard—that frustrated me more than anything,” when asked what was causing him to become frustrated.
“However, we didn’t witness a good football game on Thursday night during prime time.”
Even though it didn’t look like Pat Carrigan landed on Nelson Asofa-Solomona’s back, he was sin binned for a hip drop tackle in the second half.
“I believe Carrigan is simply slipping down, but there’s no doubt he loses his leg,” Mick Ennis remarked.
Gorden Tallis remarked, “I know there has to be intent, but when your top ribs fall down there, that wasn’t the typical hip drop.”
“We’re going to keep observing it, and I guess the hip-drop is what happens if there’s any pressure or weight on your lower leg.”
Bryan Fletcher went on, “Patty is in risk because he’s done it before. Though I don’t believe he meant it, I don’t believe a lot of
Nelson is a big guy, Carrigan said to Nine at full time. I was merely attempting to tackle him when he struck me on the outside shoulder.”I’m not even sure if I touched him.” It wasn’t a hip drop, in my opinion.
“Hopefully, the large guy was alright. We’ll watch and see.
Asked about the Carrigan hip drop sin bin, Walters simply said: “He slipped down his legs …
“Anyway, good luck to the Storm, they deserved to win. But the good thing from our perspective is we’ve come here to a tough environment and last time we came here, we got beat by 50 so I reckon we’ve made some improvements.”
Walters was again asked about the hip drop and whether the NRL need to adjust how it adjudicates the rule: “Yeah, definitely. You wouldn’t like to see that in a Grand Final.”
Even Storm coach Craig Bellamy believed it was a tough call.
“I think we’re very inconsistent with it,” Bellamy said. “I think Patrick tonight was very unlucky to go to the sin bin. I’m thinking along the lines of Kevvie’s thinking there. I thought it was a really tough decision to send him to the sin bin but that was sort of the way the game went tonight.”
