Macquarie Sports Radio Weekend Afternoons With Clinton Maynard & Craig Willis

Cronulla Sharks winger Sione Katoa was awarded a controversial penalty try in their 14-8 defeat to Newcastle in Rd 1. Edrick Lee obstructed Katoa but doubt remained about whether he was going to score a try.  Sharks half Chad Townsend told Sam Stove and Clinton Maynard on Weekend Afternoons that he didn't think it should've been a try, instead thinking Lee, who intercepted a Townsend pass to score the winning try, should've been sent to the sin bin instead. “I probably didn’t think it was a penalty try. My thinking would’ve been a penalty and a professional foul which means Edrick Lee would’ve spent 10 minutes in the bin and I thought that would’ve been sufficient instead of a penalty try but the bunker obviously thought otherwise and that’s how it played”.