Sun Jul 25, 2:00pm
Late Changes
Michael Crocker was a late withdrawla with eddy Pettybourne coming into the starting line up. Jamie Simpson was added to the bench.
WIN 38-28
The South Sydney Rabbitohs have secured their ninth victory of the 2010 season with a 38 points to 28 win over the New Zealand Warriors at ANZ Stadium this afternoon (Sunday). 13,895 Members and supporters saw the Rabbitohs turn on a second half blitz, turning a ten-point deficit at the end of 40 minutes into a ten-point advantage 40 minutes later. Rabbitohs winger Fetuli Talanoa scored a double for the red and greens on the back of a solid forward display and the brilliance of young halfback Chris Sandow. The Rabbitohs got away to a cracking start when second-rower Eddy Pettybourne renewed an old combination with five-eighth John Sutton to score in the third minute of play. Sandow converted to give the home side a six-nil advantage early in the match. The Warriors responded six minutes later when Lewis Brown scored the first of his two tries, cleaning up a loose ball from a bomb. Five minutes later Manu Vatuvei scored in the 14th minute when Nathan Merritt couldn’t quite shove the giant winger into touch. Merritt more than made up for the effort, putting a massive hit on Vatuvei to drive him back into his own in-goal area to force a repeat set, followed up by scoring a try of his own in the 23rd minute to take back the lead. Sutton started the movement with Rhys Wesser then sending a long ball to the right wing for Merritt to finish off the slick backline movement. The lead changed again when Jeremy Latimore scored for the Warriors in the 31st minute. From what looked like a forward pass from hooker Ian Henderson, Latimore charged over under the posts giving James Maloney an easy conversion. The Warriors stretched the lead to ten points just before the break when Maloney scored and converted, giving the Rabbitohs a mountain of ground to make up in the second stanza. A John Lang-rev up at half time had an affect, with the Rabbitohs coming out fired up in the second half. A big hit from Sandow in the 44th minute forced a mistake from the Warriors, and in turn switched the momentum of the match. Fetuli Talanoa crossed three minutes after Sandow’s hit with fullback Wesser creating room for the flyer down the left wing. Three minutes later Beau Falloon scored a great team try, a perfect example of backing up and paying dividends. Sandow made the break, passing to Ben Lowe who off loaded to Falloon. Sandow converted, leveling the scores at 20-all. The Warriors regained the lead in the 55th minute after Maloney kicked a penalty goal, but the Rabbitohs responded two minutes later with a four-pointer. It was the little dynamo Chris Sandow who scored the try after Colin Best made a massive break, putting Sandow in space to charge to the corner. Sandow converted his own try from the touch line to establish a four-point lead with 20 minutes to go. Talanoa then scored his second try in the 66th minute, fighting to get the ball down over the line for his side’s sixth try. Sandow converted from a similar position to give South Sydney a 32-22 lead. Talanoa was scoring tries and also saving them, pulling off a huge one-on-one tackle on his line in the middle of the field when the red and green defensive line looked to be caught short on both sides of the field. Brown scored his second try for the Warriors seven minutes short of full time, and Maloney’s conversion was giving South Sydney Members heart palpitations with memories of the Rabbitohs’ narrow losses in recent weeks. But this time the Rabbitohs shut the game down when Jamie Simpson scored in the 79th minute after the halves ran the ball on the last tackle, swinging it right to score in the corner. Sandow’s conversion finished the scoring at 38-28 in favour of the cardinal and myrtle. Head Coach John Lang was a relieved man in the post-match press conference. “It was good to win a close one. It didn’t look that close on the scoreboard but it was nip and tuck,” Lang said. “We’ve haven’t been looking at the ladder. We’ve just been trying to win football games. You win enough games and the ladder looks after itself. “We played a good month of footy and we only got one win so to win today was good.” Lang was very happy with the performance of his halfback. “It was a big game from Chris Sandow today,” Lang said. “He has something special, a special talent for the game. “Cliff Lyons was brilliant but erratic in the first half of his career, but he became one of the most consistent players I’ve ever seen. “It surprises me when people say John Sutton is inconsistent. Sutto is consistent, but you just can’t lay on tries like he does every week. “Chrissy is still coming to terms with playing at this level but great combinations are formed over many years and those two have been playing together for two full seasons now.” Lang said the second half was a marked improvement on the first today. “We wanted to pressure them everywhere today, but in the first half we did everything too slow,” Lang said. “We’ve got the talent there, but it doesn’t always happen for you. “13, 14, 16 points; it’s not enough to win too many games. It was good to put some points on today. “I was rapt in the performances of our young players today. Dave Tyrrell, Clarky (Jason Clark) and Jamie Simpson were all good for us when they came on the field.” Lang revealed that second-rower Dave Taylor left the field in the 71st minute with a broken collarbone. “Dave will be a big loss for us. He’s looking at six to eight weeks on the sideline. Eddy Pettybourne gives some attacking options on the edge as does Dave Tyrrell so we just have to step up again. “Issac Luke and Shannan McPherson aren’t far away and hopefully Michael Crocker will be right soon as well, but we can’t afford to get too many more injuries. “We’ve had a lot of injuries to our forwards, but we’ve been fortunate to have had depth in the forwards.” Rabbitohs captain Roy Asotasi also gave his halves a pat on the back. “Chris has been going good,” Asotasi said. “He’s continuing to develop that combination with Sutto and it’s getting better all the time. “He’s the general of our team and us forwards look to him to direct us around the field.”
3 min 6-0
9 min 6-4
14 min 6-8
23 min 10-8
31 min 10-14
40 min 10-20
47 min 14-20
50 min 20-20
55 min 20-22
58 min 26-22
64 min 32-22
73 min 32-28
79 min 38-28
Talanoa 2, Merritt, Simpson, Falloon, Pettybourne, Sandow tries
Sandow 5 from 7 goals
Crowd 13,895
Referee G.Badger/T.De Las Heras
Penalities 6-4
Scrums 8-5
Min Tac Pe MT LB HU DR m Er OL K TA
Wesser 80 6 - 3 - 6 2 46 - - - 2
Merritt 80 2 - 2 1 6 1 44 - - - -
Best 80 10 - 2 1 14 2 143 - 2 - 2
Champion 67 3 - 1 - 8 1 61 1 - - -
Talanoa 80 7 - - 2 16 5 117 1 - 1 -
Sutton 80 17 - 3 - 8 - 41 - 1 7 1
Sandow 80 9 - 4 - 8 - 82 1 1 7 -
Burgess 67 23 - 2 - 19 - 145 2 1 - -
Falloon 68 25 - 2 - 6 4 70 - - - -
Asotasi 47 20 1 1 - 9 - 97 - - - -
Pettybourne 70 21 - 2 1 12 - 93 - 1 - 1
Taylor 48 19 1 1 - 11 - 80 - 4 - -
BLowe 80 36 - 7 1 11 - 85 1 1 - 1
Crossman 39 16 1 2 - 7 - 46 1 1 - -
Tyrrell 44 22 - 2 - 3 - 35 - - - -
Clark 18 8 - 1 - 2 2 12 - - - -
Simpson 12 4 1 - 1 3 1 36 1 - - -
TOTAL 248 4 35 7 1233 8 12 15 7
Completion Rate 23/29 79%
Effective 1st Tackles
1 min 0m Au Err / SCR / P / P / TRY
5 min 29m Sutton kick
7 min 28m Sandow kick / SCR / (Au TRY)
11 min 31m Au Err / P / Sutton kick / SS Err / (Au TRY)
18 min 0m SCR / Sutton kick CIG
19 min 18m P / SS Err / SCR
22 min 0m Talanoa kick CIG
23 min 0m TRY
26 min 98m Sutton kick / SS Err / 48m / SS P
29 min 81m Au Err / SCR / Sutton kick 19m / SS P / (Au TRY)
35 min 24m Sandow kick / SCR
37 min 44m Au Err / SCR / SS Err
39 min 100m SCR / SS Err / (Au TRY)
half time
41 min 19m Sutton kick
43 min 53m SS Err
45 min 29m Au Err / SCR / Sandow kick
46 min 0m P / TRY
49 min 0m TRY
52 min 22m Sandow kick COF
54 min 100m DO 75m / SS P / (Au GOAL)
56 min 0m TRY
60 min 15m Sutton kick
62 min 52m SCR / ChOv
66 min 0m Au Err / SCR / Sandow kick TRY
68 min 24m Sandow kick DIG
70 min 15m Sandow kick / SCR
72 min 96m SS Err / SCR / (Au TRY)
74 min 76m SS P
76 min 75m DO
78 min 0m P / TRY
Average effective 1st tackle location
- 34.3m - for the whole match
- 34.8m - 1st half
- 33.9m - 2nd half
If you now remove the tries
- 41.2m - 1st half
- 48.0m - 2nd half
Other FG Matches
32-16 StAu Parramatta b Canterbury
11-10 Koga Gold Coast b St Geo-Ill
20-13 Canb Canberra b Cronulla
28-24 Town Nth Qld b Newcastle
18-10 MRSt Melbourne b Penrith
38-20 Gosf Manly b Wests-Tig
34-30 Lang Sydney b Brisbane
W D L B Diff PT
ST GEO-ILL 13 - 5 2 +188 30
PENRITH 11 - 7 2 +97 26
SYDNEY 11 - 7 2 +9 26
WESTS-TIG 11 - 7 2 0 26
MANLY 10 - 8 2 +74 24
WARRIORS 10 - 8 2 -21 24
GOLD COAST 10 - 8 2 -25 24
SOUTHS 9 - 9 2 +77 22
Brisbane 9 - 9 2 +37 22
Parramatta 9 - 9 2 -12 22
Canberra 8 - 10 2 -50 20
Newcastle 7 - 11 2 -88 18
Canterbury 6 - 12 2 -29 16
Nth Qld 5 - 13 2 -151 12
Cronulla 5 - 13 2 -188 14
Melbourne 10 - 8 2 +82 0 **
Judiciary News
No has been charged.
NYC Round 20
v Warriors
Fri Jul 25,11:45am
LOSS 18-19
Team was 1-17. The Warriors kicked a 15 metre field goal with two minutes remaining in the game to steal the win. The Rabbitohs had a number of chances to hit the lead in the dying minutes but the Warriors were successful with their only attempt at field goal.
5 min 0-6
15 min 6-6
21 min 10-6
26 min 16-6
35 min 16-12
39 min 16-18
67 min 18-18
78 min 18-19
Mansour, Tulemau, Reynolds tries
Reynolds 3 from 4 goals
Other NYC Matches
30-28 StAu Canterbury b Parramatta
34-12 Koga St Geo-Ill b Gold Coast
48-28 Canb Canberra b Cronulla
38-14 Town Nth Qld b Newcastle
46-16 MRSt Melbourne b Penrith
24-20 Gosf Manly b Wests-Tig
36-22 Lang Sydney b Brisbane
W D L B Diff PT
NTH QLD 11 2 5 2 +154 28
SOUTHS 12 - 6 2 + 94 28
WARRIORS 11 1 6 2 +125 27
SYDNEY 11 1 6 2 +84 27
MANLY 11 - 7 2 +102 26
CANBERRA 11 - 7 2 +30 26
CANTERBURY 10 1 7 2 +42 25
GOLD COAST 9 1 8 2 -99 23
Wests-Tig 9 - 9 2 +60 22
St Geo-Ill 8 - 10 2 -5 20
Newcastle 8 - 10 2 -52 20
Brisbane 7 - 11 2 +35 18
Penrith 7 - 11 2 -133 18
Cronulla 6 1 11 2 -130 17
Melbourne 5 2 11 2 -115 16
Parramatta 3 1 14 2 -182 11
NRL Club Championship **
W D L B Diff PT
SYDNEY 22 1 13 4 +93 53
Warriors 21 1 14 4 +104 51
St Geo-Ill 21 - 15 4 +183 50
Manly 21 - 15 4 +176 50
Souths 21 - 15 4 +171 50
Wests-Tig 20 - 16 4 +47 48
Gold Coast 19 1 16 4 -134 47
Canberra 19 - 17 4 -20 46
Penrith 18 - 16 4 -36 44
Nth Qld 16 2 18 4 +3 42
Canterbury 16 1 19 4 +13 41
Brisbane 16 - 20 4 +72 40
Newcastle 15 - 21 4 -140 38
Parramatta 12 1 23 4 -194 33
Cronulla 11 1 24 4 -318 31
Melbourne 15 2 19 4 -23 16 **
NSW Cup Rd20
v Western Suburbs
Campbelltown StadiumSat Jul 24, 3:00pm
LOSS 20-33
Late Changes Simposn was out with Dean Apps switching to center. molan moved into the starting line up. Fans went with the firm belief that their team was ‘in the contest’ in the NSW Cup match against Western Suburbs, but faulted in the second half with a more determined Magpies winning out 33-20. It only took two minutes for Wests to score putting Norths under pressure early from a Bears error to be 4-NIL in front. Norths first try was a great individual effort from Brock Molan. The stocky front rower dashed from the 20 metre line fending off the Magpies defense. Meeting the try line on his back he planted the ball overhead style with 2 or 3 defenders trying to stop him. Eddie Paea was successful with the conversion and the Bears hit the front 6-4. An arm-wrestle contest ensued for a solid ten minutes with good attempts in attack from both teams. Then Wests Kurt Kara found a gap close to the line and scored. Jamie Sharkie converted for Wests to lead 10-6. A knock on by Wests after the kick off allowed Eddie Paea the chance to spread the ball and Bears winger Curtis Johnston made an enormous effort to get in position to score in the left corner. A difficult conversion was missed bringing the scores even 10 all after 30 minutes. The Magpies edged ahead with two tries in the last 10 minutes of the half. Wests achieved a follow on set of six and Magpies winger Rhys Pritchard raced in to the right corner to score. Then in the 39th minute a Magpies kick to the Bears in-goal was well weighted and their winger Gus Aiga grounded. Jamie Sharkie was successful with both conversions to give Wests the lead at halftime 22-10. With Jamie Simpson called up for NRL duty he was a sizable loss but it was second half errors that were the Bears ultimate downfall with several in crucial field position. Norths began the half with a number of attacking raids on the Magpies resulting in Norths hooker Matt Hunt barging over the line close to the posts. Eddie Paea converted and closed the gap 22-16. Next Norths got into good position for Eddie Paea to send up a well judged bomb. Bears winger Curtis Johnston worked quickly to run and challenge for the ball with the Magpies backline and won the tussle and won a try for his team, bringing the margin down to 2 points – 22-20 to Wests. Norths had further attacking opportunities however errors at crucial moments failed them where Western Suburbs succeeded. A kick to the Bears in-goal was jumped on by Wests forward Josh Davis. Then Gus Aiga scored his second try for Wests in similar circumstances. Jamie Sharkie scored one of the conversions and Wests were in front 32-20. In a somewhat usual finish Wests Rhys Pritchard successfully scored a field goal in the remaining minute of play to have his team finish 33-20 in front.
2 min 0-4
9 min 6-4
23 min 6-10
31 min 10-10
37 min 10-16
39 min 10-22
44 min 16-22
50 min 20-22
55 min 20-28
62 min 20-32
80 min 20-33
Johnston 2, Hunt, Molan tries
Paea 2 from 4 goals
Other NSW Cup Matches
32-6 Crst Canterbury b Balm-Ryde
46-38 Olym C Coast b Melbourne
32-24 Ring Wntwrthvll b Auckland
50-20 Wind Windsor b Cronulla
22-19 RCon Newtown b Shllhrbr
W D L Diff PT
CANTERBURY 15 - 4 +209 30
BALMAIN-RYDE 15 - 4 +136 30
NEWTOWN 14 1 4 +109 29
WINDSOR 12 2 5 +118 26
WESTS 11 1 7 +106 23
MELBOURNE 10 - 9 +62 20
WENTWORTHVILLE 8 1 10 -5 17
CRONULLA 6 1 12 +34 13
Central Coast 6 - 13 -161 12
Auckland 6 - 13 -174 12
Norths 5 - 14 -238 10
Shellharbour 3 - 16 -214 6