Righto, we’re back looking up Stephen Crichton’s nostrils in the provided stills of his injury.
“The injuries we see here are consistent with the biting mechanism,” NRL representative Lachlan Giles says.
Crichton had a cut on the top of his right nostril and across that … middle bit between the nostrils? What do you call that? [Editor’s note: the septum.]
Giles says there’s no other way that the injury or cuts could have happened. “The incision has been brought about by a bite, that’s the obvious mechanism there.”
For the record, not a hint of nostril hair on Crichton. Quality grooming by a quality player.
“It’s not suggesting that this was a premeditated act, but it’s very hard to argue it wasn’t a bite … the obvious question is how was the injury created, if not that by a bite?” Giles says.
Giles says just because a player doesn’t make an on-field complaint, it doesn’t mean he wasn’t bitten.
Giles says video evidence also shows Crichton walk past the touch judge in the 66th minute, when he and Flanagan had an exchange five minutes after the incident, and that Crichton said something to the touch judge while “pointing to his nose”.
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