Canterbury-Bankstown were ripped off.

You can spin it however you want but the fact remains that the Bulldogs lost two competition points  on Friday night because the game is wrong.

To put this all in perspective we need to stop and remember what rugby league is.

Two teams, off 13 each, colliding, attacking, defending and dismantling each other.

The point is, one team needs to stop the other.

Earlier on Friday night, Issac Luke desperately dived for the line. In a split second, less than a thought, the Bulldogs scrambled.

Josh Morris tried to use his foot, which missed while the huge Sam Kasiano dived in and made contact with his knees.

What do you want them to do?

Worst of all was the ending of a game that the Bulldogs should have won.

Souths needed a field goal.

Canterbury wanted to stop it.

The ball goes back to Souths’ pivot Adam Reynolds, Canterbury captain James Graham uses the last of his energy to sprint out of the line, lunge and stop the ball.

Reynolds could be out for months.

That’s horrendous news for his club and him. But what Graham did wasn’t wrong.

Graham and the Bulldogs have been penalised for playing the game.

Perhaps for now on, when a halfback is shooting for field goal, we all stop and give them a free shot.