Boyd’s shepherd claim

DARIUS Boyd says the obstruction rule is being refereed too harshly in the NRL, with attacking teams held to too strict an interpretation.

Broncos skipper Boyd and coach Wayne Bennett were nonplussed when Boyd’s 46thminute ‘‘try’’ on Sunday afternoon was disallowed by video referee Ashley Klein when Bronco Joe Ofahengaue ran into defender Roger TuivasaSheck on the Warriors’ tryline earlier in the movement.

Ofahengaue ran into contact with Tuivasa-Sheck’s “outside’’ shoulder, which under NRL directives relating to tryscoring plays often leads to an obstruction penalty, no matter how far away the tryscorer gets the ball.

“The refs probably made the right decision based on the rules,’’ Boyd said.