Stadium Australia
Thu Sep 17, 7:50pm
Tatola and Denniss were trimmed 24 hours before the game. Dargan and Mago were 18th men.
LOSS 16-26
A ferocious 20-0 burst in the opening 26 minutes helped Canterbury climb off the bottom of the ladder with a tense 26-16 win over the Rabbitohs at ANZ Stadium on Thursday night. There was no shortage of controversy with Canterbury scoring twice while Jaydn Su'A was in the sin bin for a high shot that knocked Lachlan Lewis out of the match, while a Souths try was awarded without the aid of a Bunker despite winger Jaxson Paulo going into touch before he grounded the ball. The Dogs opened the scoring with a penalty goal in the eighth minute and then surged downfield from the restart to immediately get back on the attack. After forcing one dropout, the boot of Lewis then created the first try via a Jayden Okunbor bat-back to Tim Lafai, with Averillo nailing the sideline conversion. Controversy erupted in the 22nd minute with the Dogs again inside the South Sydney half. Lewis was rocked by a monster shot from Su'A and lost the ball trying to stand up, clearly wobbly on his feet. Upon inspection, the Bunker found the Su'A shoulder had made direct contact with Lewis's head and he was sent for 10 while Lewis was forced from the field and took no further part in the game. The Bulldogs scored twice against the 12-man Bunnies line-up and the first came almost immediately with Reimis Smith powering over from a scrum in the 22nd minute for a 14-0 lead. A beautiful pass from the kick-off put Okunbor into open pastures with the winger galloping all the way to the Bunnies' 40-metre line and soon after produced another bat-back – this time from an Averillo bomb – to put Faitala-Mariner over and at 20-0 after 26 minutes the Bunnies were reeling. The Bulldogs invited the Rabbitohs back into the contest with a series of six-again calls and penalties before a beautiful Cody Walker tap-on put Paulo over. Unfortunately for Canterbury, replays revealed Paulo had put his foot into touch before putting the ball down but the try had already been awarded and Souths were on the board in the 33rd minute. A Johnston line break and kick-ahead from the next set looked to have created Souths' second try for Corey Allan but a push from Allan on Jeremy Marshall-King in the lead-up drew a no-try ruling. They had their second soon after though with Allan setting up Campbell Graham after another run of set restarts against Canterbury to make it 20-10 at half time. The Bunnies dominated the opening exchanges of the second stanza and despite some huge try-saves from Smith and Jackson, Johnston eventually scored from a perfect Walker cut-out to close the gap to 20-16. Canterbury were able to get back into the grind with the help of some untimely errors from Souths and found a try with a kick from Brandon Wakeham that was batted back by Johnston and pounced on athletically by Chris Smith for his first NRL try. There was still more than 20 minutes to play at that stage but other than Jed Cartwright dropping the ball over the line in the 69th minute, the Bunnies never really threatened to force the comeback as the Dogs clung on for a relieving late-season win. The result puts Souths' hopes of a home final in jeopardy with Newcastle able to leapfrog them into sixth if they beat the Dragons.
8 min 0-2
13 min 0-8
24 min 0-14
25 min 0-20
32 min 4-20 Paulo try Reynolds miss
38 min 10-20 Graham try Reynolds goal
HT 10-20
48 min 16-20 Johnston try Reynolds goal
65 min 16-26
Paulo, Graham, Johnston tries
Reynolds 2 from 3 goals
21 min Su'A, Jaydn 10SB High Contact
Referee A.Klien
Crowd 4,859 (Match played with 25% capacity restricted attendance due to COVID-19)
Scrums 3-8 (1H 2-4 )
Penalities 6-4 (1H 3-3 )
6 Again 7-3 (1H 3-2 )
Final Line Up -
Min Tac Pe 6A MT LB Rn DR m Er OL K TA T G/A FG
Flbk - 1 - Allan, Corey 80 3 1 - 2 1 14 - 189 - - - 1 - - -
RWng - 5 - Paulo, Jaxson 80 10 - - - 2 12 - 141 2 - - - 1 - -
RCnt - 3 - Graham, Campbell 80 22 - - 2 1 17 - 183 2 2 1 - 1 - -
LCnt - 4 - Marsters, Steven 29 3 - - 1 - 7 - 45 - 1 - - - - - [0-29]
LWng - 2 - Johnston, Alex 80 1 - - - 3 9 2 134 2 1 1 - 1 - -
5/8 - 6 - Walker, Cody 80 21 1 - 5 - 16 - 149 1 - - 2 - - -
Half - 7 - Reynolds, Adam 80 18 - 1 3 - 12 - 80 - - 12 - - 2/3 - (c)
Prop - 8 - Knight, Liam 49 35 1 - 1 - 9 - 71 2 - - - - - - [0-24,55-80]
Hook - 9 - Cook, Damien 80 62 - - 2 - 9 8 107 - 1 - - - - -
Prop - 10 - Burgess, Tom 49 32 - - 2 - 9 - 75 1 - - - - - - [0-24,55-80]
SRow - 11 - Su'A, Jaydn 70 24 1 - - - 15 - 131 1 - - - - - - [0-21,31-80]
SRow - 12 - Sironen, Bayley 72 38 - - 4 - 13 - 95 - 1 - - - - - [0-72]
Lock - 13 - Murray, Cameron 70 53 - 3 2 - 14 - 127 1 4 1 - - - - [0-50,60-80]
Int - 14 - Nicholls, Mark 31 19 - - - - 13 - 133 - - - - - - - [24-55]
Int - 15 - Cartwright, Jed 51 7 - - - - 10 - 131 1 1 - - - - - [29-80]
Int - 16 - Sele, Hame 10 5 - - - - 3 - 31 - - - - - - - [50-60]
Int - 17 - Koloamatangi, Keaon 39 28 - - - - 11 - 94 - - - - - - - [24-55,72-80]
381 4 4 24 7 1922 13 11 15 3 3 2/3 -
Completion Rate - 31/42 74%
Opposition Offloads - 10
Effective 1st Tackles
0 min 10m KO
1 min 15m Reynolds kick COF
3 min 6m Reynolds kick
5 min 46m P / Reynolds kick DIG 38m / SS-6A(Murray)
7 min 100m SS P(Walker) (CB GOAL)
9 min 12m KO
10 min 80m SS Err(Graham) SCR
12 min 64m DO / (CB TRY)
14 min 20m KO
18 min 11m Reynolds kick SCR
20 min 69m Reynolds kick COF 15m / SS-6A(Murray) 31m / SS P-10SB(SuA)
23 min 100m SS Err(Johnston) SCR (CB TRY)
24 min 58m KO / (CB TRY)
27 min 15m KO
30 min 33m SCR / Graham kick DIG
32 min 0m CB Err CB-6A / CB-6A / P / TRY
34 min 7m Reynolds kick
35 min 35m Johnston kick NO TRY SS P(CAllan)
38 min 0m P / CB-6A TRY
SS Err(Walker)
half time
40 min 13m Reynolds kick COF
43 min 5m CB-6A / Murray kick
45 min 12m NO TRY SS Err(Graham) SCR
48 min 0m CB-6A / P / TRY
51 min 10m Reynolds kick COF
52 min 0m Reynolds kick COF CIG
54 min 11m ChOv
56 min 95m Reynolds kick COFIG 38m / SS-6A(Reynolds)
58 min 5m ChOv
60 min 39m SS Err(Knight) SS-CC(x) SCR
62 min 62m SS Err(SuA) SCR
64 min 66m DO / (CB TRY)
67 min 20m KO
68 min 55m CB-6A / NO TRY SS Err(Cartwright) 2m / SS-6A(Murray)
73 min 30m CB Err / Reynolds kick P / P / SS Err(Murray)
75 min 59m SCR / SS Err(Knight) SCR
77 min 100m SS P(Burgess) (CB NO GOAL)
78 min 74m 20-DO
80 min 40m Reynolds kick SS Err(Graham)
Average effective 1st tackle location
- 39.8m - for the whole match
- 42.3m - 1st half
- 37.6m - 2nd half
Other First Grade Matches
32-12 NQSt Penrith b Nth Qld
26-12 WSS Parramatta b Brisbane
42-24 Brok Gold Coast b Manly
50-22 SunS Melbourne b Wests-Tig
34-18 SCG Syd Rstrs b Cronulla
26-14 Bruc Canberra b Warriors
42-18 NISC Newcastle b St Geo-Ill
W D L Diff PT
PENRITH 17 1 1 +257 35
MELBOURNE 16 - 3 +266 32
SYD RSTRS 14 - 5 +282 28
PARRAMATTA 14 - 5 +100 28
CANBERRA 13 - 6 +118 26
NEWCASTLE 11 1 7 +77 23
SOUTHS 11 - 8 +117 22
CRONULLA 10 - 9 +10 20
Gold Coast 8 - 11 -147 16
Wests-Tig 7 - 12 -61 14
Manly 7 - 12 -122 14
Warriors 7 - 12 -127 14
St Geo-Ill 6 - 13 -82 12
Nth Qld 4 - 15 -168 8
Canterbury 3 - 16 -168 6
Brisbane 3 - 16 -340 6
Judiciary News
Jaydn Su'A was placed on report for a high tackle in the 21st minute. He was later charged with a grade two careless high tackle charge. The has a 200 points base penalty. He has 20% loading from one non-similar offence and still has 15 carryover points remaining resulting in a all up charge of 265 points. Jaydn Su'A has since taken the early guilty plea whih results in a 25% discount or 180 base points with his 15 carry overpoints resulting in a final charge of 195 points which results in his being suspended for 1 week and 95 carry over points.
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