Western Sydney Stadium
Fri May 29, 7:50pm
Goodwin and Roberts were trimmed 24 hours before the game. Kolomatangi and Mago were 18th men.
LOSS 12-28
In front of cardboard fans, the sublime skills of James Tedesco have steered the Roosters to a 12-28 win over arch-rivals South Sydney, putting paid to the premiers' slow start to the season. The book of feuds was re-opened two months and two days after the scheduled round three clash had to be postponed and both sides blew out the cobwebs with a series of powerful hits. Latrell Mitchell's defection to the Rabbitohs generated the headlines for months both during the pre-season and the COVID-19 pandemic, but the game itself failed to live up to the niggle fans are used to seeing between the game's oldest rivals. The battle between Mitchell and former team-mate Tedesco was a feature for the clash. The defending premiers' quest to avoid three losses to start the season was on track five minutes into the game when Luke Keary kicked for Daniel Tupou to leap above Dane Gagai for an easy six point lead. Early in the game Tatola recieved a head knock while making a tackle. Keary put Tupou into space on the left edge on the half-hour mark before new recruit Josh Morris placed a infield grubber for former Sharks teammate Kyle Flanagan to collect and put down under the posts. Allowing the Roosters to jump out to a 0-12 lead. The Roosters looked threatening once more as Keary tried to steer the ship on the right edge until a pass landed in Braidon Burns' hands to swing momentum the Rabbitohs way. A miraculous effort from Brett Morris, where he mowed down Burns, and then Alex Johnston, denied a Bunnies try until Mitchell's short ball for Murray was enough to get the South Sydney on the board, before the team went into the break at 6-12 to the Sydney Roosters. A two-try blitz immediately after half-time blew the game apart. Tedesco did it all himself in the 41st minute as he fought off Origin team-mate Murray to race 30 metres and score, before Cordner ran a strong line off Keary to plant the ball down. Pushing the Roosters lead out to 6-22 in the 50th minute. Souths had two injury concerns when Sironen and then Knight left the field after receiving head knocks. in the 49th and 51st minutes, but both returned later in the game. A try to Tom Burgess when he crashed over with 20 minutes remaining that left the door open for the Rabbitohs to strike late at 12-22. But the Roosters held on in a typical gritty defensive performance. With Jake Friend returning from a head knock to grubber for himself late in the game to score the side's fifth try of the night when Mitchell was caught badly out of position.
3 min 0-6
28 min 0-12
35 min 6-12 Murray try Reynolds goal
HT 6-12
42 min 6-16
46 min 6-22
60 min 12-22 Burgess try Reynolds goal
76 min 12-28
Murray, Burgess tries
Reynolds 2 from 2 goals
Referee A.Klien
Crowd 0 (Match played behind closed doors due to COVID-19)
Scrums 5-4 (1H 2-2 )
Penalities 9-4 (1H 6-2 )
6 Again 2-2 (1H 1-1 )
Final Line Up -
Min Tac Pe 6A MT LB Rn DR m Er OL K TA T G/A FG
Flbk - 1 - Mitchell, Latrell 80 8 - - 3 - 13 - 101 1 - - 1 - - -
RWng - 2 - Gagai, Dane 80 8 - - 1 - 15 1 140 1 - - - - - -
RCnt - 3 - Graham, Campbell 80 20 - - - 1 12 - 119 - - - - - - -
LCnt - 4 - Burns, Braidon 80 16 1 - 1 - 13 2 169 - 2 3 - - - -
LWng - 5 - Johnston, Alex 80 8 - - 1 - 10 1 97 - - - - - - -
5/8 - 6 + Dargan, Troy 80 16 - - 3 - 13 - 81 - 1 9 - - - -
Half - 7 - Reynolds, Adam 80 16 - - 4 - 6 - 26 1 - 7 - - 2/2 - (c)
Prop - 8 - Tatola, Junior 49 32 - - 2 - 11 - 105 - - - - - - - [0-10,24-51,68-80]
Hook - 9 - Cook, Damien 80 49 - - - - 12 9 94 - - 1 - - - -
Prop - 10 - Burgess, Tom 50 32 - - 6 1 15 - 123 - - - - 1 - - [0-22,49-68,71-80]
SRow - 11 - Su'A, Jaydn 38 30 - - 2 - 12 - 82 1 2 1 - - - - [0-29,51-80]
SRow - 12 - Murray, Cameron 71 39 - - 3 1 15 - 123 1 1 - 1 1 - - [0-71]
Lock - 13 - Knight, Liam 32 22 1 - 1 - 7 - 59 - - - - - - - [0-24,52-53,73-80]
Int - 14 - Nicholls, Mark 39 24 1 1 - - 9 - 68 - - - - - - - [10-49]
Int - 15 - Lowe, Ethan 58 27 - 1 3 - 8 - 70 1 - - - - - - [22-80]
Int - 16 - Sironen, Bayley 9 8 1 - 1 - 6 - 45 - - - - - - - [49-52,66-73]
Int - 19 - Amone, Tom 33 14 - - 1 - 11 - 99 - - - - - - - [29-49,53-66]
369 4 2 32 3 1630 6 6 21 2 2 2/2 -
Completion Rate - 36/42 86%
Opposition Offloads - 7
Effective 1st Tackles
0 min 13m KO
1 min 71m Reynolds kick COF 29m / SS P(Knight) / (ES TRY)
5 min 24m KO
7 min 34m ES 6A / JSuA kick DIG
9 min 70m DO
11 min 9m ES Err SCR / P / Dargan kick
13 min 31m Dargan kick COF 14m / SS 6A(Nicholls)
15 min 46m P / SS Err(DGagai) SCR
18 min 4m ES Err P / ChOv
19 min 86m SS Err(Mitchell) SCR
21 min 34m Dargan kick COF
23 min 45m Reynolds kick COF
24 min 22m Burns kick Burns kick
25 min 18m Reynolds kick COF
27 min 14m SCR / Dargan kick COF / (ES TRY)
29 min 64m KO 18m / SS P(Nicholls)
32 min 0m ES Err / Reynolds kick CIG
35 min 0m P / P / TRY
38 min 29m Dargan kick COF
40 min 0m P / DCook kick CIG
half time
41 min 22m Dargan kick / (ES TRY)
43 min 16m KO
46 min 75m SS Err(Lowe) SCR / (ES TRY)
48 min 14m KO
49 min 14m Dargan kick
52 min 15m SCR / Dargan kick COF
54 min 0m P / Dargan kick CIG
56 min 8m SS Err(Murray)
58 min 0m Burns kick CIG
60 min 0m ES 6TG SCR / TRY
62 min 25m Reynolds kick COF
64 min 32m SS Err(Reynolds) SCR
66 min 66m DO
69 min 4m ES Err SCR / ES 6A / ChOv
72 min 62m P / Reynolds kick 1m SS P(Burns) 34m / ES-CC SS P(Sironen)
75 min 66m Reynolds kick 50m / SS 6A(Lowe) / (ES TRY)
78 min 41m Sh-KO
80 min 17m ES Err SCR P / SS Err(SuA)
Average effective 1st tackle location
- 29.3m - for the whole match
- 31.1m - 1st half
- 27.1m - 2nd half
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36-6 NQSt Nth Qld b Gold Coast
18-0 Gosf Warriors b St Geo-Ill
28-16 WSS Wests-Tig b Cronulla
22-6 MRSt Canberra b Melbourne
14-14 Camp Penrith d Newcastle (GP)
32-6 Gosf Manly b Canterbury
W D L B Diff PT
PARRAMATTA 3 - - - +74 6
CANBERRA 3 - - - +48 6
NEWCASTLE 2 1 - - +38 5
PENRITH 2 1 - - +10 5
NTH QLD 2 - 1 - +37 4
MANLY 2 - 1 - +13 4
WESTS-TIG 2 - 1 - +4 4
MELBOURNE 2 - 1 - - 4
Brisbane 2 - 1 - -17 4
Syd Rstrs 1 - 2 - +9 2
Souths 1 - 2 - -16 2
Warriors 1 - 2 - -16 2
Cronulla - - 3 - -18 -
St Geo-Ill - - 3 - -32 -
Canterbury - - 3 - -40 -
Gold Coast - - 3 - -88 -
Judiciary News
No one has been charged from the match.
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