Stadium Australia
Sat Jul 21, 7:30pm
This Weeks Cyberview from the Hill Late Changes
Peats started at hooker for suspended Luke. Pettybourne started at prop with Luke Burgess dropped back to the bench. George Burgess dropped off the bench. Crocker was captain and Hunt and Starling were 18th and 19th men.
WIN 36-14
The South Sydney Rabbitohs have solidified their position in the NRL's top four with a commanding 36 points to 14 victory over the St George Illawarra Dragons at ANZ Stadium tonight (Saturday). 21,071 Members and supporters turned out for the Rabbitohs Members Appreciation Game, and were repaid with seven tries from the men in red and green including a hat trick to try scoring machine Nathan Merritt. The Rabbitohs now sit equal second alongside the Melbourne Storm on the competition ladder, only two points behind the Bulldogs who sit at the top of the tree on 30 competition points. South Sydney struck first in only the second minute of the match with the Club's leading try scorer Andrew Everingham crossing in the right hand corner. Five-eighth John Sutton busted the Dragons open up the middle and threw a long pass to the right to find centre Dylan Farrell, who in turn found Everingham for the try. Adam Reynolds converted from out wide to give the Rabbitohs an early six-nil lead. That lead was extended seven minutes later when Merritt crossed for his first try of the night. The Dragons were putting the Rabbitohs under pressure but lost the ball, with Farrell scooping it up. He put Everingham away on a 60 metre charge down field. On the next play, the ball found Merritt on the left wing, scoring against the run of play in the left hand corner. The Rabbitohs blew a certain scoring opportunity in the 14th minute and Dragons winger Daniel Vidot was held up over the line in the 16th minute. The Dragons scored on that set through Brett Morris, reducing the deficit to six points. Both sides were throwing everything they had at each other in what was proving to be a brutal and sometimes spiteful affair. The Rabbitohs were next to score, Merritt crossing for his second try in the 26th minute. A cross field found a flying Greg Inglis, who guided the ball back to Merritt. Merritt grubber kicked behind the defensive line and chased it through to score a remarkable try. Reynolds converted to give the Rabbitohs a 16-4 advantage. In the 33rd minute of play, Inglis charged through on Dragons replacement forward Dean Young, hitting him with a solid shoulder charge that left him concussed. A fight broke out after the hit, with Dragons front rower Trent Merrin punching Dylan Farrell who was stuck on the ground underneath the motionless Young. Inglis was placed on report and the incident will be reviewed by the match review committee. Four minutes later, it was Inglis again who proved to be the protagonist when he unbelievably held Dragons centre Chase Stanley up over the line. Stanley was certain to score, but 'GI' brought him down short of the line, rolling him onto his back and getting his arm, then his leg under the ball to prevent Stanley from scoring. At 16-4 up at the break, the Rabbitohs would have been pleased with their efforts, but an equally solid performance would be needed in the second half to stop a Dragons side desperate to stay in touch with the top eight. ...And didn't the mighty Rabbitohs deliver! Another Red V try was thwarted when Jake Marketo was held up over the line and the Rabbitohs forced a knock on from the next play. Dragons replacement forward Josh Miller collected Rabbitohs front rower Sam Burgess in high tackle which was put on report in the 51st minute. Inglis was the next to score in the 54th minute, slicing through the Dragons' defence with ease from 40 metres out, putting on the after burners and leaving the Dragons' players in his wake on his way to the line. The only way to describe the run is 'poetry in motion', as Inglis pointed to the rabbit over his heart after touching down. The Rabbitohs were muscling in defence in the second 40 minutes, dishing out some big hits in the third quarter. It paid dividends when centre Matt King crossed for the Rabbitohs' fifth try in the 62nd minute, a good, hard, straight run from 10 metres out and bouncing out of two tackles and spinning out of a third to score. Reynolds converted to extend the lead to 26-4. The Dragons pegged one back when Ben Creagh crossed in the 65th minute, but it would not take long for South Sydney to reply in kind. This time it was John Sutton scoring the points, sliding through from ten metres out to score and take the score past 30 on the Rabbitohs' side of the ledger. The Dragons scored their final try in the 75th minute through representative winger Morris, but again, the Rabbitohs were not finished. It was that man Nathan Merritt crossing for his third try in the 77th minute that put the biggest smile on every Rabbitohs Member's face, crossing from close range record another hat trick in his illustrious career. The Rabbitohs received the good field position after Reynolds made a long break from an intercept, and it was he that added the extras, finalising the scores at 36-14 in favour of the good guys.
2 min 6-0
9 min 10-0
16 min 10-4
26 min 16-4
55 min 20-4
63 min 24-4
65 min 24-10
68 min 30-10
75 min 30-14
77 min 36-14
Merritt 3, Everingham, Inglis, King, Sutton tries
Reynolds 4 from 7 goals
Crowd 21,071
Referee T.Archer / G.Morris
Penalities 6-7
Scrums 2-5
Min Tac Pe MT LB HU DR m Er OL K TA
Inglis 80 5 2 1 1 14 1 160 3 1 1 -
Merritt.N 80 7 - 2 2 10 1 89 - - 1 -
King 80 11 - 3 1 11 1 87 - 1 - 1
Farrell 80 24 1 6 - 6 3 37 - 1 - -
Everingham 80 8 - 3 - 7 3 104 1 - - -
Sutton 80 14 - 1 2 8 - 117 - - 5 3
Reynolds 80 17 - 5 - 6 - 91 1 1 10 -
Pettybourne 37 10 - - - 8 - 75 - - - -
Peats 80 42 - 1 - 8 8 59 - 2 - 1
Burgess.S 46 20 - 1 - 10 - 98 - - 1 -
McQueen 68 18 - - - 11 - 61 - - - -
Taylor 50 21 1 3 1 9 - 120 - 1 - -
Crocker 64 28 2 1 - 16 - 112 - - - -
Burgess.L 30 15 1 1 - 8 - 64 - - - -
Clark 25 22 - 1 - 6 - 43 - - - -
Lowe 59 32 - - - 9 - 48 - - - -
Tyrrell 21 6 - 1 - 5 - 39 - - - -
TOTAL 300 7 30 7 1404 5 7 18 5
Completion Rate 30/35 86%
Effective 1st Tackles
1 min 0m TRY
4 min 27m Sutton kick
6 min 85m Reynolds kick COF 30m / 6TG
8 min 0m SI Err / TRY
11 min 23m Reynolds kick COF
14 min 75m SS Err (Everingham) SCR 24m / SS P (Taylor) 75m / (SI NOT TRY) / (SI TRY)
18 min 95m SS P (Crocker) 64m / 6TG (SBurgess) 99m / SS P (Inglis) 95m
22 min 34m SI Err SCR / Reynolds kick
25 min 0m SI Err SCR / P / Sutton kick Merritt kick TRY
28 min 25m Reynolds kick
29 min 22m Reynolds kick COF
31 min 82m Reynolds kick 4m / SS P (Inglis)
34 min 19m Sutton kick
36 min 69m DO / (SI NO TRY)
38 min 28m Sutton kick
half time
40 min 14m Sutton kick
42 min 21m Reynolds kick COF
45 min 30m P / SS Err (Inglis)
47 min 85m SI Err SCR / ChOv 10m / SS P (Crocker) / (SI NO TRY)
52 min 6m SI Err SCR / P / P / Inglis kick
54 min 0m TRY
57 min 16m SBurgess kick COF
58 min 16m Reynolds kick COF
61 min 0m SI Err SCR / P / P / TRY
63 min 60m SI KO 60m / (SI TRY)
67 min 6m SI err / Reynolds kick
69 min 0m SI Err / TRY
70 min 18m Reynolds kick COF
72 min 89m SS Err (inglis) SCR 59m / SS P (Taylor) 89m / (SI TRY)
75 min 83m SS P (Farrell) KO
77 min 0m SI Err / TRY
Average effective 1st tackle location
- 34.3m - for the whole match
- 32.8m - 1st half
- 27.8m - 2nd half
If you now remove the tries
- 48.7m - 1st half
- 37.0m - 2nd half
Other FG Matches
20-12 Brok Canterbury b Manly
14-10 Robi Gold Coast b Brisbane
24-19 MtSm Newcastle b Warriors
16-10 Parr Parramatta b Melbourne
36-4 Ende Canberra b Cronulla
28-16 Penr Penrith b Sydney
29-16 Town Nth Qld b Wests-Tig
W D L B Diff PT
CANTERBURY 13 - 5 2 +156 30
MELBOURNE 12 - 6 2 +155 28
SOUTHS 12 - 6 2 +77 28
NTH QLD 10 - 8 2 +96 26
BRISBANE 11 - 7 2 +82 26
CRONULLA 10 1 7 2 -11 25
MANLY 10 - 8 2 +33 24
WESTS-TIGERS 9 - 9 2 -9 22
Warriors 8 - 10 2 +25 20
Gold Coast 8 - 10 2 -22 20
Newcastle 8 - 10 2 -34 20
Canberra 8 - 10 2 -39 20
St Geo-Ill 8 - 10 2 -58 20
Sydney 6 1 11 2 -134 17
Penrith 5 - 13 2 -126 14
Parramatta 4 - 14 2 -191 12
Judiciary News
Greg Inglis has been placed on report for his hit on Dean Young. He has subsequently been charged with a Grade 4 dangerous contact charge which carries a penalty of 550 points. Souths have chosen to accept the guilty plea but seek a downgrade of the charge. At the judicary the charge has been down graded to a Grade 3 Dangerous Contact charge which carries a 400 point penalty. As Greg has taken the early guilty plea he gets the 25% discount and is only chareg 300 points and will miss 3 weeks with no carryover points.
NYC U20 Round 20
v St George-Illawarra
Sat Jul 21, 5:15pm
LOSS 16-28
A large number of changes occured after disaplinary action was taken on 4 players during the week. Gray replaced James Roberts on the wing. McInnes started hooker, Artermi prop, Jarrett and Pollard second row. Turner, Garlick, Woulf were added to the bench. Koroisau, Matthews, Croad, Ha'angana, Bryant did not play. The South Sydney Rabbitohs' under 20s side has gone down 28 points to 16 to the St George Illawarra Dragosn in the Toyota Cup clash at ANZ Stadium tonight. The Rabbitohs held a slender 12-10 lead at the break, only to see that eroded throughout the final 40 minutes. The Dragons opened the scoring in the eighth minute through Kyle Martens. The Rabbitohs struck back five minutes later when Brett Jarrett scored from a straight, hard run at the line, following on from a long break by fullback Tyrone Phillips. Dylan Walker converted to give the Rabbitohs two point lead. The lead switched when Todd Ryan scored for the Dragons in the 22nd minute and that try was converted by Daniel Burke. The Rabbitohs hit back in the 30th minute when young hooker Cameron McInnes crashed over from dummy half, Walker's conversion restoring the two-point advantage at the break. The Dragons snuck away in the next 25 minutes through tries to Luke Gallagher, Adam Quinton and Kayne Brennan. Rabbitohs centre Nick Hedley scored his first try of the season in the 73rd minute, but was all too late for the Rabbitohs who went down 28-16. 79th min a fight brokeout between the team with one St George-Illawarra player sent off, Tongahai sent off and Artemi put on report.
8 min 0-4
15 min 6-4
20 min 6-10
30 min 12-10
54 min 12-16
60 min 12-22
64 min 12-26
73 min 16-26
80 min 16-28
Jarrett, McInness, Hedley tries
Walker 2 from 3 goals
Sent Off
79 min Tongahai Fighting
Other NYC Matches
48-22 Brok Canterbury b Manly
29-16 Robi Gold Coast b Brisbane
24-14 MtSm Warriors b Newcastle
28-22 Parr Melbourne b Parramatta
36-28 Ende Cronulla b Canberra
38-20 Penr Penrith b Sydney
36-20 Town Wests-Tig b Nth Qld
W D L B Diff PT
WARRIORS 13 1 4 2 +168 31
PENRITH 13 1 4 2 +137 31
CANTERBURY 12 1 5 2 +192 29
WESTS-TIGERS 12 - 6 2 +176 28
CANBERRA 12 - 6 2 +163 28
SYDNEY 10 2 6 2 +100 26
ST GEO-ILL 9 1 8 2 +53 23
SOUTHS 9 1 8 2 +30 23
Cronulla 8 2 8 2 -61 22
Melbourne 8 2 8 2 -65 22
Newcastle 8 1 9 2 +84 21
Brisbane 6 - 12 2 -124 16
Parramatta 5 - 13 2 -142 14
Nth Qld 4 2 12 2 -173 14
Gold Coast 4 - 15 2 -214 12
Manly 3 2 13 2 -295 12
Club Championship
W D L B Diff PT
CANTERBURY 25 1 10 4 +343 59
Warriors 21 1 14 4 +187 51
Souths 21 1 14 4 +109 51
Wests-Tigers 21 - 15 4 +157 50
Melbourne 18 2 14 4 +82 50
Canberra 20 - 16 4 +114 48
Cronulla 18 3 15 4 -60 47
Penrith 18 1 17 4 +31 43
St Geo-Ill 17 1 18 4 -11 43
Sydney 16 3 17 4 -34 43
Brisbane 17 - 19 4 -30 42
Newcastle 16 1 19 4 +44 41
Nth Qld 15 2 19 4 -77 40
Manly 13 2 20 4 -252 34
Gold Coast 12 - 24 4 -234 32
Parramatta 9 - 27 4 -341 26
NSW Cup Round 20
v Wentworthville, Ringrose Park
Sun Jul 22, 3:00pm
WIN 30-24
Late Changes Starling replaced Geddes at prop. Leslie moved to the second row. Talanoa in the centers and Centrone on the wing. Hunt started at five-eighth with Hawkins at fullback. Field replaced Matapuku on the bench but did not take part in the game. In a match that could have gone either way, North Sydney defeated Wentworthville 30-24 thanks to a hat-trick from winger Chris Centrone. Centrone completed his hat-trick with the score locked at 24-24 to hand the Bears a tough away victory on an overcast Sunday at Ringrose Oval. North Sydney broke the deadlock 3 minutes into the game through Greg Nichols after an error from Wentworthville. Jake Mullaney spilled Ryan Carr’s high ball under pressure from Curtis Johnston and the Bears earned a repeat set inside Wentworthville’s 20 metres. Justin Hunt went to first receiver and feigned to through long before giving a short ball to Greg Nichols who strolled through a gap and brushed off the Mullaney to score. Hunt missed the conversion and the scoreboard remained at 4-0. Five minutes Brendan McKinnon stole the ball one on one from prop Peni Terepo. From there the Bears charged downfield and McKinnon was the orchestrator of his sides second when he got out of dummy half and attracted defenders before giving the ball to Ryan Carr who popped an inside ball to Blake Judd who ran through a gaping hole in the defence and raced 20 metres to score under the posts. Hunt had no trouble converting and the Bears were up 10-0. Fetuli Talanoa hit the ball up from dummy half after a strong kick chase from Wentworthville, it looked to be a regulation run until Talanoa spun and broke free from the defence 30 metres out from his own line and stepped past two players before giving the ball to Hunt, who drew the fullback before throwing a long ball to Chris Centrone. The former Bulldog showed great speed racing to the corner to score his side’s third try of the afternoon. Hunt missed a tough conversion and the score stayed at 14-0 halfway through the first half. Wentworthville hit back through five eight Jason Wehbe on the back of a repeat set inside the Bears half. The Bears were unable contain the home side’s offloads and a series of quick passes and offload’s led to Wehbe crossing over next to the posts. Wehbe converted his own try to reduce the lead to 14-6 with 10 minutes remaining in the first half. Wehbe’s try sparked the Wentworthville side into action and the home fans were celebrating another try in the very next set. Esi Tonga busted the line and the Bear’s defence failed to wrap up the ball as Tonga offloaded to Dylan Gilbert who raced away down the sideline. With the fullback rushing toward him, Gilbert kicked down the centre of the field and Mullaney was on hand to pick up the ball and plant it under the posts. Wehbe converted from right in front to edge the home side back in the game, trailing 14-12 with just under 10 minutes left in the first half. Wentworthville made it three tries in three sets when the Tonga - Gilbert combination sent the home crowd into raptures. Tonga was proving hard to contain and offloaded to Gilberton the halfway line and Gilbert raced away down the sideline before stepping Jack Hawkins and got the ball down despite the covering defence of Greg Nichols. Wehbe slotted the extras and extended the lead to 18-14 with the first half winding down. Wentworthville weren’t finished however, Lancen Juodo got out of dummy half and put a clever chip over the defence 30 metres out from the Bears line and recovered the ball before floating a ball to Tonga who drew the defence before setting up another try to Gilbert. Wehbe nailed the conversion from the sideline to send his team into the break with score at 24-14 after scoring four unanswered tries to close out the first half. North Sydney needed to score first to remain in touch with scoreboard and they did that on the back of an offside penalty. After the Wentworthville players were adjudged to have been inside the 10 metres, a good touch finder had the Bears on the attack. Justin Hunt through a long ball which hit the turf before bouncing into Chris Centrone’s hand waiting hands and the winger finished beautifully to score in the corner despite the defence covering. Hunt missed the sideline conversion but the Bears were back in the game at 24-18. Wentworthville looked destined to score after three repeat sets inside the Bears half, but the Bears defence was resolute and forced the error from Pat O’Hanlon. O’Hanlon failed to grasp Wehbe’s wayward pass and the defender could only knock the ball down to Shaune Corrigan, who scooped up the ball and raced 90 metres to score under the posts. Hunt converted and the match was set for a tense finish with the scores locked at 24-24 with 20 minutes left in the game. Chris Hyde’s presence was immediately felt when he came in at dummy half and ran the ball down the short side on the last tackle before giving a cut out ball to Centrone who completed his hat-trick to give the lead back to the Bear’s with just under 15 minutes left in the game. Justin Hunt nailed a crucial conversion from the sideline to give his side a 30-24 lead. Snaps at field goal from Ryan Carr and Justin Hunt attempted to put the game out of reach for Bears but they were left with a nervous few minutes as the Wentworthville side looked for a late equaliser. With minutes left on the clock the home side were inside the Bears 20 metres and threw the ball from side to side and then side to side again before Justin Horo straightened the attack and busted through the defence. Five metres out from the tryline Carr tackled Horo around the legs and Horo offloaded to Chris Armit who coughed up the ball with the tryline at his mercy. The Bears rode out the clock to secure a tense 30-24 victory at Ringrose Oval. Bears coach Wayne Lambkin was delighted with his side’s performance, “The most important part was trying to secure this top 4 position, they had everything to play for. It was hard to nominate any one player in such a good win, but I think our two front rowers Areaiiti and Starling had a big job in front of them, I think Chris Centrone had a great game today and today it showed how important it is to have good halves in this competition.”
5 min 4-0
10 min 10-0
18 min 14-0
29 min 14-6
31 min 14-12
34 min 14-18
39 min 14-24
45 min 18-24
60 min 24-24
67 min 30-24
Centrone 3, Nichols, Judd, Corrigan tries
Hunt 3 from 6 goals
Other NSW Cup Matches
34-26 MSm2 Illawarra b Auckland
32-10 Leic Balm-Ryde b Manly
30-4 Hens Mt Prtchrd b Newtown
36-28 Camp Cronulla b Wests
22-14 Town Newcastle b Windsor
W D L B Diff PT
CANTERBURY 12 1 5 2 +288 29
WINDSOR 12 - 6 2 +174 28
NORTHS 12 - 6 2 +142 28
NEWCASTLE 11 - 8 1 +131 24
BALMAIN-RYDE 11 - 8 1 +56 24
ILLAWARRA 9 1 8 2 +122 23
WENTWORTHVILLE 9 - 9 2 +132 22
NEWTOWN 10 - 9 1 +107 22
Mt Pritchard 9 - 9 2 +1 22
Auckland 9 - 10 1 +16 20
Cronulla 10 - 9 1 -125 20
Manly 6 - 13 1 -218 15
Wests - - 18 2 -798 4