St George Illawarra interim coach Ryan Carr is expecting more NRL sin-binnings after the Dragons lost fullback Tyrell Sloan without warning in their defeat of Wests Tigers.
On Thursday night, referee Ben Cummins sin-binned the Dragons fullback for holding Tigers five-eighth Daine Laurie down in a tackle while Saints defended their goal-line.
The Dragons shifted Zac Lomax from right centre to cover for Sloan but it was down Lomax's usual edge that the Tigers scored two tries while they were up a man.
"Big call, huge call in the context of the game really," Carr said of the sin-binning at WIN Stadium.
"It had a huge bearing on the game."
Exposed defensively in that period, winger Mikaele Ravalawa scored the try that helped the Dragons snatch the game back in the second half and notch an 18-14 victory.
But Carr was left scratching his head over Cummins' decision to sin-bin Sloan rather than blow a six-again, given it usually takes repeated infringements on the goal-line for a player to be dismissed for 10 minutes.
In this case, there was no prior six-again before Sloan went from the field.
"I get it, it's a deliberate six-to-go," Carr said.
"But they're giving six-to-go unless there's a repeated lot of them in a row or it was a try-scoring situation.
"I don't think it was either of those. I'll have to have a look at it in isolation and go into detail.
"But if that's the standard ... then we should be seeing a lot more people sin-binned I'm assuming."
Carr praised his side for battling their way to victory despite the tough 10 minutes.
"People look at the end score and say, 'scrappy game' but we went 10 minutes without a man," he said.
"We've got a team of players here who work so hard and are so engaged in sticking in trying to do what's best for our team and trying to improve every week. That's all I can ask of them."
