"I feel like it potentially just needs to be looked at because there's some tackles that look very similar and some are getting sin-binned, and some aren't getting sin-binned." - Manly coach Anthony Seibold
"I think it's inconsistent but there's nothing that we can control. It spoils the game of footy." - Gold Coast coach Des Hasler
"Accidents are going to happen when the game is this fast and there's that much fatigue. And we've done that - we've made the rule changes. It's a hard game for these boys to play at the moment." - Newcastle coach Adam O'Brien
"I think that's a fair statement." - Penrith coach Ivan Cleary, when asked whether referees had over-reacted to an NRL push not to miss sin-bin offences.
"There was probably three times as many penalties as well, they were very stop-start all weekend. I'm not sure what they are trying to achieve and whether they've achieved their objective ... Â It's frustrating." - Canterbury general manager Phil Gould on Nine.
"The breakdown of this sending players to the bin is absolutely farcical. It's gone beyond a joke. It is embarrassing." - Andrew Johns on Nine's Sunday Footy Show
"I don't know whose decision it is, but you need to come out tomorrow and you need to say why we're doing it and you need to show examples and show players what you want them to do with tackling techniques because this is a farce." - Andrew Johns, again, on the same program.
"What we've seen now is a slight over, perhaps, overreaction on the other way which is unfortunate. I get the frustration around the bunker intervening in play that is certainly not something any of us want to see ...There's probably been too many of those where that disrupts play and gets pulled back and that's something we're going to work on." - NRL CEO Andrew Abdo on 2GB on Monday.
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