My god... In private tomorrow I rekon lyal will go ballistic at the pair of them..
good. These things need to be dealt with in house. Id get Lyall, an NRL rep and the ref in question as well as presidents of the competing teams in the game yesty to a meeting. Put it all out on the table.
No excusing their actions at all. But if its true a player was being taken off while they resumed play, the ref has stuffed up his part too, and IMO David as a trainer had a right to say something.
My question to you all is, does this ref pull his phone out if it was you or i, or just the fact it was an NRL player?
fine, counselling, apology. Signed memorabilia. done.
Its a big issue, but its not something that should be dealt with by an NRL suspension IMO