If you take the defender away he not only catches it and lands on his feet. He'd likely have been able to run closer to the posts to make the kick easier. I know taking the defender out of play that much is a bit of a stretch. But it does show that him scoring was more of a possibility than the majority of other penalty tries that are given.
The explanation we don't give them for those and we are consistent is a weird one to me. Most tackles in the air are still in the field of play. This was a play over the line that caught the ball. All he needed was to land without the illegal play.
The other one that should be getting more attention if I have the incident correct. Is the Hastings going down and grabbing his leg. We get penalised and
Jackson Ford I think it was got put on report. Even the commentators were perplexed what it was for. As it wasn't high, a grapple or a hip drop.
If it was the penalty that pushed the score from 6-0 to 8-0. It is another scoring play that was questionable. It was earlier in the game so plenty of time to work back from it, also to be forgotten. But in the wet as we saw scoring plays were hard to come by.
If that wasn't the play they kicked the penalty. Happy to be wrong as I'm just going off one viewing.