NRL judiciary LIVE updates: Flanagan denies Crichton claims
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St George Illawarra five-eighth Kyle Flanagan has pleaded not responsible to the cost of biting Bulldogs skipper Stephen Crichton after fronting the NRL judiciary on Tuesday night time.
Flanagan is preventing to show his innocence with Sydney lawyer James McLeod arguing his case with St George Illawarra CEO Ryan Webb and GM of soccer Ben Haran additionally in attendance on the NRL’s Sydney HQ.
NRL authorized counsel Lachlan Gyles is appearing on behalf of the league earlier than the panel of chair Geoff Bellew SC, former referee Greg McCallum and retired participant and referee Henry Perenara.
Crichton lodged a criticism with NRL officers on Saturday night time, claiming he had been bitten making an attempt to sort out Flanagan within the Bulldogs’ 28-10 win at Jubilee Oval.
On Sunday morning, the match evaluate committee referred the Dragons five-eighth on to a judiciary listening to, an motion usually taken for severe offences or these unable to be dominated on with out testimony.
7:40pm: Bellew advised the panel earlier than they go and deliberate that they “must be satisfied that it is more probable than not that a bite was inflicted by player Flanagan”.
“All media coverage must be ignored. If you’re not satisfied that an intentional bite is inflicted, then you must find the player not guilty.”
Gyles earlier claimed the one means Crichton may have suffered bleeding to his nostril from the incident was if Flanagan had bitten him.
“That is the obvious mechanism for the injury and common sense suggests the incision (on his nose) was caused by a bite. If there was a partial movement of the jaw that didn’t cause the injury, how did player Crichton’s nose end up like that?” he requested.
“You didn’t partially close your mouth, you bit player Crichton.”
Flanagan was blunt in his response: “I didn’t chew Stephen Crichton. I partially closed my jaw. I didn’t trigger these accidents.
“I keep in mind regathering the ball close to my line. I acquired tackled by two Bulldogs gamers and I used to be looking for my floor. I felt a fairly overwhelming stress of two Bulldogs gamers on me.
“I used to be utilizing my forearm making an attempt to create separation so I may rolled over and play the ball. Crichton’s drive was suffocating me. I felt trapped, locked in.
Kyle Flanagan. (Photograph by Mark Evans/Getty Photos)
“There were expletives from both sides. Excuse my language: ‘F— off’ and ‘f— off’ back.”
The defence has rested its case as of seven.30pm AEST, 90 minutes into the listening to, saying: “We have no evidence from the person who made the complainant. This highlights the lack of supporting evidence needed for this charge.”
McLeod advised the panel that “this is a serious allegation, a grave allegation, against someone who has a clean record”.
“Kyle is the only one who knows if this was intentional or not. Crichton comes at him at least twice, in our submission Crichton positions his nose so that it goes into his mouth,” he mentioned.
“Crichton’s nose gets wedged in and he pulls it out. His head rotates. There is force generated there. We have minor grazing on the bridge of the nose and a mild cut underneath Crichton’s nose, between the two nostrils.
“We know there’s no excuse for biting. Our position is his involuntary reaction was to partially close his mouth. The mechanics of the minor injury that resulted are consistent at that.”
McLeod labelled it “significant” that Crichton didn’t make an on-field criticism or react instantly after the incident.
“The captain of the Bulldogs, who is no shrinking violet, not to have made an on-field complaint or said anything at the time, is highly unusual.”
The Dragons’ finals hopes threat coming undone if Flanagan is banned.
They’ve named him of their workforce to play Gold Coast this Sunday.
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Dragons coach Shane Flanagan was unaware of the matter instantly after full-time on Saturday night time however later got here out to say his son had denied the allegation.
Crichton didn’t attend the post-match press convention on Saturday, his coach Cameron Ciraldo saying he was seeing medical employees. He refused interviews from the media afterward.
“His nose is a bit swollen there but (we haven’t spoken) in great detail,” Ciraldo mentioned post-match. “He’s getting a few things checked. I don’t know what to say about it, really, so we’ll leave it there.”
The final NRL participant charged for biting, Jack Wighton, obtained a three-match ban for lashing out at Newcastle five-eighth Tyson Gamble throughout final yr’s finals sequence.
Jack Wighton is positioned on report by referee Ashley Klein after biting Tyson Gamble in 2023. (Photograph by Brendon Thorne/Getty Photos)
Gold Coast ahead Kevin Proctor was given a four-game ban for biting in the course of the 2020 season, whereas James Graham (12 video games) and Brad Morrin (eight) obtained longer suspensions for a similar offence in 2012 and 2007 respectively.
A ban would include horrible timing for a Dragons facet that seemingly must win three of their remaining 4 video games to ensure a primary finals berth since 2018.
The Dragons are at the moment ninth, however solely their inferior for-and-against is retaining them behind the eighth-placed Dolphins.
Flanagan has performed five-eighth in all 20 video games of the Dragons’ resurgent season, proving a stable foil for Ben Hunt after a 2023 season that featured chopping and altering between Junior Amone and Jayden Sullivan within the halves.
Jack Fowl may very well be elevated to five-eighth off the interchange bench whereas Connor Muhleisen is an alternative choice within the game-day squad introduced earlier on Tuesday.