Stadium Australia
Sat Aug 29, 7:30pm AEST
The CyberView from the Hill - Last Week
The CyberView from the Hill - This Week
Late ChangesJason Clark will make is debut with Beau Falloon dropping off the bench.
WIN 41-6
The South Sydney Rabbitohs have dealt the St George Illawarra Dragons a hefty blow in their efforts to secure the minor premiership, winning 41 points to 6 at ANZ Stadium tonight (Saturday) in front of 19,218 Members and supporters. The Rabbitohs ran in seven tries to one, dominating the Dragons in all facets of play. From attack, to defence, to discipline, to their enthusiasm, the Rabbitohs’ players did their Members and supporters proud tonight. The Rabbitohs opened the scoring in the fifth minute of play when five-eighth John Sutton broke through to score. David Fa’alogo made a break and offloaded to fullback Nathan Merritt. He found Sutton who carried three defenders over the line to score. Chris Sandow converted to give the Rabbitohs an early six-nil lead. The video referee then ruled against two Dragons’ attempts to score, Brett Morris putting a foot into touch after a try-saving tackle from Merritt, and Matt Cooper dropping the ball over the line with Colin Best wrapped around his ankles. It was that man Best that scored next in the 18th minute, charging on to a short ball from Sutton to score. Sandow’s conversion stretched the lead to 12. The Dragons struck back five minutes later, with Jamie Soward scoring the try and kicking the conversion, these being the Dragons only points of the match. The Rabbitohs crossed again in the 30th minute when Ben Lowe ran a great line close to the line to slice through and score, after the Rabbitohs had capitalised on a Dragons’ mistake. Sandow converted to restore the 12-point lead. In the dying moments of the first half, Sandow kicked a field goal from about 20 metres out to give the Rabbitohs a 13-point break at the half time siren. The Rabbitohs were outmuscling their more fancied opponents, with a highly physical approach to the game rattling the Dragons’ cage. Jaiman Lowe was making particular in roads into the Dragons defence and shaking them up with his defence. A try was not scored until the 57th minute when Rabbitohs winger Jamie Simpson crossed for his ninth try of the season. Simpson sliced through on the left hand side, beating three defenders to score. Two minutes later Merritt scored when the Rabbitohs carved up the Dragons up the middle of the ruck. Issac Luke scooted from dummy half at the halfway line, offloading to Merritt 40 metres out, backing up like a good fullback should to dart away and dive over under the black dot. Sandow’s conversion took the Rabbitohs to a 29-6 lead. In the 65th minute, Sutton scored his second try for the night when rampaged through the Dragons’ defence to score under the posts from ten metres out. Sandow’s conversion gave the Rabbitohs a 29-point lead with 15 minutes remaining. Six minutes later, Eddy Pettybourne charged on to a Chris Sandow short ball to score. A great run from Issac Luke in the lead up to the play set up the try, flinging off numerous defenders as he charged towards the line. Sandow’s conversion took the score line past 40 for the Rabbitohs. To put his final mark on the game, Sandow kicked a 40/20 in the final minute of the game, bringing the 19,000-plus crowd to its feet. The Rabbitohs registered their biggest victory over the St George Illawarra merged Club tonight, a fantastic feat considering the Dragons are the favourites to win the premiership. Rabbitohs Head Coach Jason Taylor was happy with his side’s performance tonight, lamenting the fact that it had not come a week earlier. “It (the performance) came from attitude,” Taylor said. “We’ve had that attitude in recent weeks, just not last week. “We worked hard to get it back, and last week hurt us. We picked it up at training yesterday. “I’ll be honest and say I didn’t see a score line like that coming though.” Taylor said it’s one of the Club’s best wins this year. “It’s up there with them that’s for sure,” Taylor said. “The win at Brookvale was good and we’ve had some others like Brisbane in Brisbane and the wins over the Roosters, but this is definitely up there, if not the best.” Rabbitohs captain Luke Stuart said: “It was an enjoyable to play in, particularly at the end when we had heaps of ball and they were constantly defending. “Our attitude was good and our approach to the game was good too.” Taylor said the Dragons will still be a force to be reckoned with in this year’s premiership. “They were off their game tonight, but that was only going to make the game closer,” Taylor explained. “We were in it from the start. We were aggressive, but that’s the game. You’ve got to start with that aggression and we did tonight. “We brought the last ten minutes of last week with us tonight and that was what we wanted to do. “We made it difficult for ourselves this year by putting ourselves in a position where every game became sudden death and we were playing them for a long time.
Omen - A Rabbitoh Cloud on the way to the game
5 min 6-0
18 min 12-0
23 min 12-6
29 min 18-6
39 min 19-6
57 min 23-6
59 min 29-6
66 min 35-6
71 min 41-6
Sutton 2, Best, B.Lowe, Simpson, Merritt, Pettybourne tries
Sandow 6 from 7 goals
Sandow fieldgoal
Crowd 19,218
Referee A.Klien / S.Lyons
Penalities 9-4
Scrums 9-2
Min Tac Pe MT LB R DR m Er OL K TA T G/A FG
Flbk - Merritt, Nathan 80 2 - - 2 15 - 133 - 2 1 - 1 - -
Wing - Simpson, Jamie 80 3 1 - 1 15 6 100 1 1 - - 1 - -
Cntr - Best, Colin 80 9 - - 1 12 4 95 - - - - 1 - -
Cntr - Vaivai, Junior 80 7 - 2 - 11 1 91 - - - - - - -
Wing - McQueen, Chris 80 5 - 3 - 12 3 104 2 1 - - - - -
5/8 - Sutton, John 80 12 - - 2 11 - 90 1 3 9 1 2 - -
Half - Sandow, Chris 80 11 - 8 - 8 - 62 1 1 8 3 - 6/7 1
Prop - Stuart, Luke 62 19 - 1 - 17 - 173 - - - - - - - (c)
Hook - Luke, Issac 63 12 - 2 - 12 8 93 - 2 1 1 - - -
Prop - Geddes, Scott 38 24 - 1 - 12 - 97 - 1 - - - - -
SRow - Lowe, Ben 80 16 1 3 1 12 1 104 2 1 - - 1 - -
SRow - Pettybourne, Eddy 51 19 - 1 1 9 - 59 - - - - 1 - -
Lock - Fa'alogo, David 57 19 1 2 - 18 - 131 1 2 - - - - -
Int - McPherson, Shannan 47 20 - - - 20 - 131 - 1 - - - - -
Int - Tyrrell, Dave 30 18 - - - 8 - 49 - - - - - - -
Int - Lowe, Jamian 28 18 1 - - 12 - 92 - - 1 - - - -
Int - Clark, Jason 24 11 - 1 - 4 2 25 - - - - - - -
TOTAL 225 4 24 8 1629 8 15 20 5 7 6/7 1
Completion Rate - 41/47
Opposition Offloads - 13
Effective 1st Tackles
1 min 26m Sandow kick
2 min 10m Sandow kick
5 min 0m TRY
7 min 15m Sandow kick
9 min 45m P / P / SS Err (SI NO TRY)
11 min 31m Sutton kick COF
13 min 72m SS Err / 46m / SS P / 6TG (SI NO TRY)
16 min 16m ChOv
18 min 0m SI Err / P / TRY
19 min 75m SS Err
22 min 28m SI Err / Sutton kick / Luke kick DIG
23 min 100m (SI TRY)
27 min 22m SI Err / Sandow COF
28 min 6m SI Err / Merritt kick
29 min 0m SI Err / TRY
32 min 31m Sutton kick COF
33 min 21m Sutton kick
36 min 83m P / J.Lowe kick / COFIG / 29m / SS P
38 min 28m SI Err / Sandow kick DIG
40 min 0m SI Err / FIELDGOAL
half time
41 min 26m Sutton kick COF
43 min 0m Sutton kick CIG
47 min 47m P / SI Err / SCR / ChOv 5m / SS P
49 min 26m SI Err / SCR / Sutton kick DIG
51 min 30m Sandow kick COF
53 min 30m Sutton kick / 6TG / Sutton kick OOF
56 min 0m P / TRY
59 min 0m TRY
64 min 0m P / (NO TRY) / P / SI Err / SCR / Sutton kick CIG
65 min 0m TRY
67 min 20m Sutton kick / SS Err
70 min 0m SI Err / SCR / P / TRY
72 min 70m SS Err
77 min 10m DO-SI Err / Simpson kick / 6TG / SS Err
79 min 20m Sandow kick 40-20
80 min 20m SCR / Sutton kick COFIG
Average effective 1st tackle location
- 25.2m - for the whole match
- 30.4m - 1st half
- 18.7m - 2nd half
If you now remove the tries
- 38.1m - 1st half
- 24.9m - 2nd half
Other FG Matches
16-10 Town Brisbane b Nth Qld
48-6 Parr Parramatta b Penrith
36-24 Robi Gold Coast b Wests-Tig
38-4 Olym Melbourne b Sydney
18-16 Brok Manly b Cronulla
40-20 StAu Bulldogs b Warriors
30-14 Bruc Canberra b Newcastle
W D L B Diff PT
BULLDOGS 18 - 5 2 +169 38 +
ST GEO-ILL 16 - 7 2 +182 36
GOLD COAST 16 - 7 2 +81 36
MELBOURNE 13 1 9 2 +127 31
MANLY 13 - 10 2 +56 30
BRISBANE 13 - 10 2 -68 30
PARRAMATTA 12 1 10 2 +40 29
NEWCASTLE 12 - 11 2 -18 28
Penrith 11 1 11 2 -39 27
Wests-Tig 11 - 12 2 +63 26
Souths 10 1 12 2 +15 25
Nth Qld 10 - 13 2 +68 24
Canberra 9 - 14 2 -19 22
Warriors 7 2 14 2 -158 20
Cronulla 5 - 18 2 -207 14
Syd Rstrs 5 - 18 2 -283 14
+ deducted 2 points for extra player on the field
Judiciary News
Colin Best has been found by the match review committee to have tripped in the game. This carries a 56 point suspension. Best is free to play next weekend.
U20 National Youth Toyota Cup - Round 25
v St George-Illawarra, 5:15pm
LOSS 26-32
In the Toyota Cup match, the St George Illawarra Dragons defeated the South Sydney Rabbitohs 32 points to 26 at ANZ Stadium. The Dragons scored six tries to five in a see-sawing affair. The Rabbitohs had three opportunities to level the scores late in the match, but it was not to be for the boys in red and green.
2 min 0-6
8 min 0-10
14 min 6-10
20 min 12-10
25 min 12-14
29 min 16-14
40 min 16-20
45 min 16-26
50 min 16-32
58 min 22-32
65 min 26-32
Mundine, Capewell, Farrell, Molan, Mansour tries
Reynolds 3 from 4, Mundine 0 from 1 goals
Other NYC Matches
27-24 Town Nth Qld b Brisbane
26-18 Parr Parramatta b Penrith
48-8 Robi Wests-Tig b Gold Coast
16-14 Olym Melbourne b Sydney
64-10 Brok Manly b Cronulla
42-24 StAu Warriors b Bulldogs
42-26 Bruc Canberra b Newcastle
W D L B Diff PT
MANLY 18 1 4 2 +442 41
ST GEO-ILL 18 - 5 2 +269 40
MELBOURNE 18 - 5 2 +234 40
WESTS-TIG 14 1 8 2 +79 33
BRISBANE 14 - 9 2 +125 32
WARRIORS 13 1 9 2 +115 31
SOUTHS 12 1 10 2 +178 29
CANBERRA 11 2 10 2 +33 28
Nth Qld 11 - 12 2 -47 26
Bulldogs 9 1 13 2 -174 23
Newcastle 8 1 14 2 -182 21
Parramatta 8 - 15 2 -66 20
Gold Coast 8 - 15 2 -178 20
Penrith 8 - 15 2 -160 20
Syd Rstrs 6 - 17 2 -261 16
Cronulla 4 - 19 2 -417 12
NRL Club Championship
W D L B Diff PT
ST GEO-ILL 34 0 12 4 +451 76
Manly 31 1 14 4 +498 71
Melbourne 31 1 14 4 +361 71
Brisbane 27 - 19 4 +48 62
Bulldogs 27 1 18 4 -8 61 +
Wests-Tig 25 1 20 4 +132 57
Gold Coast 24 - 22 4 -96 56
Souths 22 2 22 4 +193 54
Warriors 20 3 23 4 -63 51
Canberra 20 2 24 4 +24 50
Nth Qld 21 - 25 4 +23 50
Parramatta 20 1 25 4 -26 49
Newcastle 20 1 25 4 -208 49
Penrith 19 1 26 4 -199 47
Syd Rstrs 11 - 35 4 -544 30
Cronulla 9 - 37 4 -622 26
Reserve Grade - NSW Cup Round 21
v Bankstown City Bulls , Stadium Australia, Sun Aug 30 10:45am
LOSS 34-38
Late changes Jasmine and Ngaro were out. Falloon started hooker, Dalton second row, Blaker and Matt Hunt on the bench. The North Sydney Bears part-timers are good enough to match it with full-time professional rugby league players. Coach Wayne Lambkin said his players proved this in their 38-34 loss to top-of-the-table Bankstown City Bulls. "Bankstown only beat us in the last minute despite the fact that all but two of their players are full-time Bulldogs," Lambkin said. "And the last time we played second-placed Central Coast they only beat us late in the game. "The psychological part of the game is that we are with them and we are good enough to beat them. "That's the positive that we will take out of it." The Bears led 26-10 but, after a fightback, former Norths player Lee Ta Maari scored for the Bulls in the last minute to claim victory at ANZ Stadium on Sunday morning. "We stuck to our game plan and played well defensively until the last 20 minutes," Lambkin said. "Then we made a took a couple of wrong options and we could have done a couple of things differently that would have put the game out of their reach, but we didn't. "But we're going to keep learning right up to the final game of the year." The Bears are now third position on the ladder alongside Wentworthville, Cronulla and Balmain.
2 min 0-4
6 min 4-4
12 min 8-4
17 min 14-4
20 min 20-4
25 min 20-10
38 min 26-10
45 min 26-16
50 min 32-16
58 min 32-22
65 min 32-28
73 min 34-28
75 min 34-34
78 min 34-38
Johnston 2, Baird, Robinson, Blaker, Apps tries
J.Hunt 5 from 7 goals
Final Line Up
T G/A FG
Flbk - Wara, Samu - - -
Wing - Johnston, Curtis 2 - -
Cntr - Nichols, Greg - - -
Cntr - Baird, Bladen 1 - -
Wing - Robinson, Reece 1 - -
5/8 - Hunt, Justin - 5/7 -
Half - Hogan, Jarryd - - -
Prop - Trembath, Chris - - -
Hook - Falloon, Beau - - -
Prop - Crossman, Garret - - -
SRow - Kidwell, David - - -
SRow - Dalton, Sean - - -
Lock - Apps, Deon 1 - -
Int - Hunt, Matt - - -
Int - Blaker, Brett 1 - -
Int - Sayegh, David - - -
Int - Kaifoto, John - - -
6 5/7 -
Other NSW Cup Matches
66-12 Camp Wests b Auckland
28-8 Hens Cronulla b Newtown
18-14 Leic Balm-Ryde b Wentworthville
40-28 Wind Shellhrbr b Windsor
W D L B Diff PT
BANKSTOWN CITY 14 - 5 2 +266 32
CENTRAL COAST 12 1 6 2 +45 29
WENTWORTHVILLE 11 - 8 2 +180 26
NORTHS 11 - 8 2 +122 26
CRONULLA 11 - 8 2 +122 26
BALMAIN-RYDE 11 - 8 2 +43 26
WESTS 10 1 8 2 +34 25
NEWTOWN 7 - 12 2 -222 18
Shellharbour 7 - 13 1 -74 16
Windsor 5 1 13 2 -251 15
Auckland 4 1 14 2 -255 13