Bulldogs coach Des Hasler has taken a veiled swipe at the NRL match review committee, suggesting they lacked common sense after David Klemmer was cleared of making contact with a referee.
The New South Wales and Bulldogs firebrand will be free to take on the Parramatta Eels tonight after being exonerated of a grade-one contrary conduct charge at the judiciary on Wednesday night.
But the Bulldogs are still bristling that Klemmer was even charged after Parramatta's Corey Norman, Penrith's Trent Merrin and Wests Tigers' Mitchell Moses did not come under the scrutiny of the committee for similar incidents in the first two rounds.
Muddying the waters even further, Brisbane's James Roberts accepted an early guilty plea for touching referee Matt Noyen in his side's win over the Warriors last Friday.
Hasler was left to lament the apparent inconsistency and when asked if the MRC needed to exercise common sense, he quipped: "It's not very common sometimes but it's one way of looking at it."
