BY CURTIS WOODWARD

@woodward_curtis

On Sunday night at AAMI Park in Melbourne, New Zealand Warriors forward Josh Curran charged down field after a kick and timed his running perfectly – smashing Storm winger George Jennings in the process.

It looked like a good shot.

Jennings stayed down.

Replays suggested the pair clashed heads and Jennings was sent to the HIA and wasn’t seen again.

Some would argue that Curran and Jennings’ first point of contact was shoulder-on-shoulder.

Yet on another angle, it looked like Warriors winger Ken Maumalo had actually clipped Jennings high.

Penalty sufficient? Sure.

At this stage the Storm held a slender 6-4 lead and the Warriors were in the arm wrestle.

As Jennings was carried from the field, veteran referee Matt Cecchin spoke to video official Steve Chiddy upstairs.

On report? Why not… worry about it later.

Instead, Cecchin not only placed Curran on report but then put him in the sin bin. Warriors captain Roger Tuivasa-Sheck couldn’t believe it. All momentum swung Melbourne’s way with the Storm laying on four tries before half-time.

Game over.

“I think they got it wrong… didn’t see it that way at all,” Fox League’s Warren Smith said in commentary.

“I believe it was a head clash between Josh Curran and George Jennings and he was making a legitimate tackle which was shoulder to shoulder, it was the heads that collided.”

South Sydney superstar Latrell Mitchell was recently suspended after a feisty old clash against Wests Tigers but didn’t stop some from sticking up for him with a strange old defence.

“The fact that one of the best players in the game is about to miss four weeks and can’t win the game’s most honourable award (Dally M) means the system isn’t working,” Girdler said on Triple M.

That just doesn’t make sense.

Earlier on Sunday, at the Sydney Cricket Ground, St George Illawarra flyer Jordan Pereira shot out of the line and collected Sydney Roosters’ James Tedesco with a swinging arm. The Kangaroos fullback was ruled out of the game with concussion. Pereira was sin binned.

Then The Daily Telegraph came up with their own strange take on the incident.

“The Anzac clash has been mired in controversy after a KO hit on the world’s best player,” they lead with on a social media post.

The world’s best player?

It’s irrelevant it happened to Tedesco.

But nobody on Monday is talking about what happened to the Warriors or their battling little second-rower Josh Curran. Nobody except for the NRL themselves who doubled down by confirming Curran had been charged for the tackle on Jennings.

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If the Warriors fight the charge and lose, Curran will miss two weeks!

What is going on?

The majority of us are banging our heads against a wall.

@woodward_curtis