NRL head of football Graham Annesley says the officials from Thursday night’s women’s State of Origin game followed protocol after they were widely criticised for how they handled Isabelle Kelly’s throat injury by allowing play to continue.
Kelly remains in the intensive care unit at Westmead Hospital after she copped an elbow to the throat while trying to make a tackle on Queensland’s Julia Robinson, but she has been cleared of a fractured larynx.
Robinson has been hit with a grade two dangerous contact charge by the NRL match review committee and will miss between one to two matches for her involvement in the incident which marred the opening game.
The NSW skipper stayed down and was…
