The brother of Robbie Farah, NSW Blues trainer Eddie Farah, drew the ire of referee Ashley Klein during the second half of Origin I for a simple act of gamesmanship.
After a knock-on from Zac Lomax, the Maroons had a scrum 10 metres out from their line.
Blues players grabbed water from the trainer before he picked the ball up and gave it to Mitch Moses. Moses then threw the ball away with Daly Cherry-Evans pointing towards him.
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Mitchell Moses takes the ball off the trainer. Nine
Orange shirt trainer Farah then went a step further and kicked the ball away over the dead ball line.
Cherry-Evans looked back towards the referee and threw his hands in the air.
Klein caught the act and blew his whistle before warning the trainer.
“Trainer, if you do that again you will not come back on the field,” he said.
The trainer’s act wasn’t obvious on the main coverage but Nine’s spider cam footage showed why Klein blew up.
The pro-Queensland crowd then booed as he ran off.
“A little bit of gamesmanship happening there,” Cameron Smith said on Nine.
Queensland blew their opportunity though, with Valentine Holmes tackled out on the first tackle.
An NRL official talks to NSW’s trainer. NRL Imagery
