Penrith playmaker Peter Wallace has dismissed suggestions that he was concussed in the final minutes of the Panthers dramatic two point loss to the Dragons.
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The Panthers were left licking their wounds with Bryce Cartwright (thumb) and Will Smith (concussion) failing to finish the game but it was Wallace’s apparent wooziness that had social media talking.
With four minutes to play, Wallace came off second best after attempting to tackle St George Illawarra forward Jake Marketo.
Channel Nine commentator Peter Sterling suggested Wallace looked concussed after the hooker appeared to be leaning against the goal post in between plays before taking his place in the defensive line.
NRL officials are currently examining the footage.
When it was suggested after that he was concussed during the attempted tackle, Wallace responded: “No, I was alright”.
It’s possible NRL chief medical officer Paul Bloomfield will also request a report from the Panthers and the club could face a fine if Wallace remained on the field after being concussed.
With three losses already chalked up this year, it’s not all doom and gloom in Anthony Griffin’s opinion, though.
"Obviously there was a mountain of effort going on there,” he told reporters. “We were turning up for each other defensively. The positive is in general we've got a really tough football team that's competing every week. We just need to be smarter about what we're doing.
"I just felt like we never got on the right leg in attack the whole day. Just kept turning the ball over in our end and they were in front of us the whole time. It's just really hard to win from there."
