Just got off the phone with Graham Annesley, the NRL’s head of football for elite competitions.

He’d stepped off the plane from the Gold Coast, where he resides, straight into a Monday morning disco inferno about the Bunker and its apparently intergalactically mind-boggling decision to disallow a Manly try in the 28-24 loss to Parramatta on Sunday afternoon.

Did you see it? No? If you listen carefully, you’ll probably hear Channel Nine expert commentator Phil Gould still complaining about it.

With 16 minutes remaining, Manly centre Tolutau Koula scored a scorching try from a play that started on halfway.

Typical of the Sea Eagles’ rambunctious style this season under coach Anthony Seibold, the ball shifted left with five-eighth Luke Brooks snaking along the defensive wall, looking for a hole to poke his head through.

With no discernible hole in sight, he popped a pass to fullback Tom Trbojevic, who was running back inside on an angle.

Tolutau Koula in action against the Eels.Credit: Getty

Turbo galloped into the backfield, drew Eels fullback Clint Gutherson, then curled a pass like a boomerang around Mitchell Moses to the flying Koula, who raced away for the try.

Many thought the pass was forward, but replays showed the ball came backwards out of Trbojevic’s hands. Try. Time.

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Is it too early in the season to be bagging the Bunker? Even when it’s right?

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25.03.2024

Just got off the phone with Graham Annesley, the NRL’s head of football for elite competitions.

He’d stepped off the plane from the Gold Coast, where he resides, straight into a Monday morning disco inferno about the Bunker and its apparently intergalactically mind-boggling decision to disallow a Manly try in the 28-24........

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