Paul Kent has slammed the NRL bunker for “backflipping” on rules in the opening two weeks of the season.

It comes after Bulldogs coach Trent Barrett said he wanted “answers” over two “contentious” calls that were made against his side in Sunday’s 16-10 loss to the Broncos.

One of those calls was to award Herbie Farnworth a try despite his Broncos teammate Corey Oates making contact — and some would argue obstructing — Bulldogs centre Braidon Burns.

NRL head of football Graham Annesley backed the decision of the match officials in charge of that match, however Kent argued on NRL 360 that Barrett is “100 per cent right.”

“Only minor contact but the rule is the rule,” Kent said.

James Hooper agreed saying “that is a penalty every day of the week.”

As did ex-NRL player Braith Anasta who said the call was “black and white.”

“In my opinion it is a penalty,” he said.

“He hits the outside shoulder or Burns, Burns cannot then release... even that split second, then (Jayden) Okunbor comes in and commits.”

News Corp journalist Phil Rothfield questioned why the bunker “didn’t get involved” in the Farnworth try and said “all we want is commonsense and the big word is consistency.”

Hooper quipped: “We’re never going to get that.”

“But they’re taking tries off other teams for very similar things but this one they just didn’t bother,” Rothfield responded.

Anasta and Kent said that the bunker wouldn’t have even looked at the incident and Hooper referenced Barrett’s post-game comments about not coaching his players to “lie down” as a reason why.

“Because Braidon Burns didn’t go down, because Burns didn’t take a dive — that’s the inference Trent Barrett is suggesting — If this is the way the game is going ‘then I’ll coach Braidon Burns to go down’,” he said.

Kent called out the match officials for not acting on the obstruction because Burns didn’t take a dive.

“This is the failing of the officials because if Braidon Burns had done the theatrical dive and fallen down we all would have blown up over that,” he said.

“But if he needed to do that to underline that he’d been infringed upon then he’s going to have to do that isn’t he?

“I know we don’t want that but the bunker should dead set be putting their hand up and saying ‘we apologise.’

He also highlighted the inconsistency in the Dragons-Panthers clash.

“The NRL told the Dragons late in the game that if Ben Hunt — when he got shoulder charged — had gone down then it might have ended up in a sin bin. But because he just played on (it didn’t),” he said.

“Then Jaydn Su’A did get sin-binned because Sean O’Sullivan did stay down.

“A week ago we had players going down and as soon as they were down — Victor Radley — category one and you’re off. A week later they’ve already gone back on their decision making.”

“One of the things about this though is that no fan likes players milking penalties and one of the results or ramifications of the concussion protocols was that is discouraged players from laying down and faking injury in a bid to milk a penalty because that would mean they would get taken off.

“But one week later they’ve already backflipped on all of that. How are the coaches supposed to know what’s happening this week?

“If you have an incident where you get brushed do you now have to do the theatrical dive because you can get up after Round 2 and stay on the field.

“After Round 1 you couldn't stay on the field. What happens in Round 3? It’s just a dog’s breakfast... I don’t know what they do in there some days.”