It isn't that rule anymore. Five players did better than him in his team alone and three on the other team. They are not going to count offloads to award the 9th DF try for a game.
Will be interesting to see what their excuse is in the email. "Even though Brent Kite reached the combined criteria we decided to not award him a DF because we're a bunch of cunts"
"an offload is the equivalent of a tackle in our counts. Most queries seem to forget this." Why should that have a bearing? The DF criteria is 40 combined tackles/runs/offloads. He reached that. He deserves a DF.
Achieves a sufficient workrate in terms of tackles, runs, metres gained and offloads playing mostly in a Forward capacity; 40 is the guideline not set in stone, most games would only see 6 or 7 players reach it. He made 13 runs for only 66 metres and only just makes the 40 cut off with offloads. His workrate was not as great as others. The workrate required for this game was closer to 42 mark.
Having looked at that game, I have no idea how he got it. I can only presume they gave it because he made 100m and 25 tackles in 40 minutes, but players seem to do that off the bench quite often these days. Plus again there were 8 players better than him. I can see why Hunter would be pissed if lost due to Pae.