D'arcy And Goran

NRL bosses say the referees made a "serious error" by failing to protect Warriors centre Peta Hiku when he was seriously injured against the Knights.Head of football Graham Annesley has told referees and their coaches that the level of mistakes recently is unacceptable.These mistakes included Adam Gee and Gavin Badger failing to stop play immediately when they saw Hiku stagger out of a tackle.Badger had instead told Gee to "watch" Hiku. The game continued until the Knights scored a try."They were aware that he had suffered a head knock, they were aware that he was on the ground and they should have stopped play at that tackle before the play-the-ball. They had time to do that," Annesley said."He said 'watch him', in other words 'keep an eye on him' but that is not good enough."That is saying 'I have identified that there is an issue there so keep an eye on him'. Well, keep an eye on him is not the right answer.""It is a very serious error in that we hold clubs accountable for dealing with suspected head injur