“Oh no.”

Andrew Johns summed it up succinctly in Channel Nine commentary on Saturday night when the whistle indicated the NRL Bunker wanted another look at the lead-up to Sunia Turuva’s try in the corner of Accor Stadium.

The resulting call by senior Bunker official Chris Butler to deny the try ultimately didn’t impact Penrith’s progress past Cronulla into a fifth-straight grand final.

But it has resulted in Ivan Cleary facing sanction following his stinging critique, all eyes on the occupant of the NRL’s Eveleigh command centre for Sunday’s decider, and the game in general wondering exactly what an obstruction looks like in 2024.

The NRL’s head of football Graham Annesley will pore over additional angles of Butler’s decision before his regular Monday media briefing, but an admission that the obstruction call was wrong wouldn’t surprise.

The obstruction call against Penrith that had Ivan Cleary up in arms.Credit: Nine

Not when commentators across the board including Johns, Cooper Cronk, Phil Gould, Corey Parker, Brad Fittler, Michael Ennis and Greg Alexander were unanimous in declaring it a fair four-pointer.

Cleary described it as a “terrible decision that gives me a lot of anxiety around next week”.

The coach’s hope that Butler isn’t appointed to the grand final is where his criticism crossed the line and had NRL executive Andrew Abdo weighing up a........

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