St George Illawarra will challenge the grading of a charge incurred by Jack de Belin against the Sea Eagles on Saturday.
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De Belin was hit with a grade two dangerous contact charge by the match review committee for the 65th-minute incident involving Sea Eagles winger Chrisian Tuipulotu during their Round 22 stoush at WIN Stadium.
Due to prior loading, the charge would have incurred a three-match ban with an early plea.
A successful challenge of the grading would result in de Belin incurring a $3000 fine instead of a suspension.
An unsuccessful appeal at the judiciary on Tuesday night would mean the 32-year-old misses four matches.
This comes after interim Dragons coach Ryan Carr blasted a number of calls that went against his side in the 24-18 loss to Manly.
One of the calls Carr took umbrage against was the sin-binning of de Belin for a hip-drop.
"De Belin was sin-binned and the game stopped for nearly two minutes for a guy (Tuipulotu) to get his knee strapped. That's not the rule, it's play on. Either leave the field or it's play on," Carr said post-game.
"Then in that moment, when they made an error on halfway, we lose not only possession and field position, but we lose a man for 10 in the bin. It's ridiculous, it's absolutely ridiculous.
"Last week Junior [Amone] got hip-dropped by [John] Bateman, there was no penalty, it didn't come back from the bunker, and he got charged after the game. The contradiction in that alone is ridiculous."
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