LIVE: Greats stunned as terrible call rubs out try

The Sea Eagles pb the Bulldogs 16-6 astatine fractional time.

The Sea Eagles made a precocious connection heading into fractional time, snatching different effort to widen their pb to 10 points.

The effort was courtesy of Raymond Tuaimalo Vaega, who broke done the Bulldogs defence to capitalise connected their deficiency of backmost enactment structure

The Sea Eagles' skills outperformed that of the Bulldogs' successful the second portion of the archetypal half, arsenic they were capable to musculus their mode done postulation to marque their absorption pay.

Talei Holmes thought she had scored her archetypal league effort earlier the Bunker intervened with different obstruction call.

Tiana Penitani was deemed to person prevented Jesse Southwell from coming crossed and making a tackle.

"No, are you serious. That'll bash me. That's not an obstruction," Billy Slater said successful commentary for Nine.

"That was a unspeakable call," Alannah Ferguson added.

Adding brackish to the wounds, the Knight past transitioned the shot to the different extremity of the tract earlier Shanice Parker scored her second.

Toafofoa Sipley has scored a arguable effort for the Sea Eagles, contempt calls the play benefited from a guardant pass.

In the look of uproar, and without an obstruction, helium crashed done to instrumentality the points.

Soft defence from Liam Knight allowed the slip-up, which enactment Manly successful beforehand for the archetypal clip successful the match.

Daly Cherry-Evans converts to widen Manly's lead, 12-6.

Earlier, Bulldog Corey Waddell opened the lucifer with a textbook try, followed by a conversion from Matt Burton.

However, the Sea Eagles were speedy to occurrence back.

Jason Saab scored a effort connected the alert for the Sea Eagles, with the Bulldogs caught retired with a deficiency of numbers astir the footy. Cherry-Evans converted genuinely to level the scores.

The players are backmost connected the tract and acceptable to tally retired the 2nd half.

The Knights pb 16-0 aft a ascendant archetypal 35 minutes.

With a pinpoint walk Caitlan Johnston recovered Yasmin Clydsdale and the abstraction opened close up for the second-rower to spell implicit mostly unchallenged.

Jesse Southwell added the conversion to widen the Knights' lead, 16-0.

Tayla Predebon goes connected to people for the Knights.

Jesse Southwell past corrects her purpose and slots the conversion.

Knights pb 10-0.

Annessa Biddle has been marched to the bin for a hip-drop tackle connected Tamika Upton.

Concern was sent done Knights' campy erstwhile Upton appeared to injure her close ankle successful the incidental but she was capable to play on.

"Yep, she got that wrong. That is the worst portion astir that tackle, however unsafe it tin be," Allana Ferguson said successful commentary for Nine.

"It is surely not an intentional act, those benignant of tackles. But you person got to beryllium conscious of wherever you are putting your assemblage weight, coming down connected the backmost of legs. Good to spot Tamika Upton connected her feet," Billy Slater added.

Shanice Parker gets the scoring underway aft Jesse Southwell sent her done a hole.

Southwell misses the conversion but the Knights pb 4-0.