Sunshine Coast Stadium
Sat Sep 4, 7:30pm
CyberView from the Hill - Last Week
CyberView from the Hill - This Week
Late Changes
Johnston and Walker were trimmed 24 hours before the game. Murray was trimmed on game day.
WIN 20-16
Game had been relocated from the Stadium Australia due to the Greater Sydney Delta Variant covid outbreak.
A young South Sydney Rabbitohs have defeated the St George-Illawarra Dragons 20 points to 16 at the Sunshine Coast Stadium on Saturday evening. With a top-four position in the bank, Wayne Bennett rolled out a host of new faces to take on the Dragons including Lachlan Illias who scored his first NRL try 6 minutes into his debut match after rolling a nice grubber down the short side and forcing an error from Mikaele Ravalawa and pouncing on the loose ball. Blake Taffe stepped into the fullback jersey and the goal kicking duties converting a penalty shortly after to give the Rabbitohs a 6 point lead, and Campbell Graham made it a double-digit lead minutes later scooping up a loose ball spilled by the Dragons working it away from their goal line and racing away to score. Graham had a double in the 27th minute after the Dragons made a meal of a Benji Marshall bomb, spilling the ball in their own in-goal. Benji Marshall was a veteran presence for the young Rabbitohs side in the first forty minutes, steering his side around and impacting the match with his kicking game including a pinpoint 40-20 and a number of high balls that were a headache for the Dragons back three. The Rabbitohs left edge that has been firing all year was on display early in the second half, just with a completely different group of players. Illias and Taffe combined to create the opportunity for Taane Milne to cross the line just inside the corner post, and Taffe slotted the goal from the sideline for a 20 point lead. The Rabbitohs controlled the game for most of the second half, but momentum began to swing following some forced changes with Benji Marshall forced from the field with an ankle issue, and Peter Mamouzelos hit high by Josh Maguire and sent the Rabbitohs hooker for a HIA and the Dragons enforcer to the sin-bin. Tyrell Sloan scored the first points for the Dragons after the Rabbitohs were unable to clean up a Corey Norman grubber kick in their own in goal, and made it a double with 5 minutes left to play to even out the scoreboard at 20-10. Mikaele Ravalawa scored the third of the Dragons tries within 9 minutes with just over a minute to play to set up the grandstand finish, but the Rabbitohs managed to defend for the final moments of the match to finish the regular season with 20 wins, their most ever wins in a season.
6 min 4-0 Ilias try Taaffe miss
17 min 6-0 Taaffe goal
20 min 10-0 Graham try Taaffe miss
27 min 14-0 Graham try Taaffe miss
HT 14-0
42 min 20-0 Milne try Taaffe goal
69 min 20-6
74 min 20-10
78 min 20-16
Graham 2, Ilias, Milne tries
Taaffe 2 from 5 goals
Weather Fine
Ground Good
Crowd 3,295 (Played with 75% capacity due to the Brisbane Covid outbreak)
Referee Matt Cecchin
Touch Judges Peter Gough / Wyatt Raymond
Video Chris Butler
Scrums 2-3 (1H 1-2 )
Penalities 5-3 (1H 3-1 )
6 Again 2-6 (1H 1-4 )
Final Line Up -
Min Tac Pe 6A MT LA LB Rn DR m Er OL K TA T G/A FG 2FG
Flbk - 1 - Taaffe, Blake 80 3 - - 2 1 - 15 - 104 1 - 1 1 - 2/5 - -
LWng - 2 - Milne, Taane 80 4 - - 1 - 1 19 3 172 1 3 1 - 1 - - -
LCnt - 3 - Burns, Braidon 80 15 - 1 1 - - 17 - 219 2 1 - - - - - -
RCnt - 4 - Graham, Campbell 80 22 - - 1 - - 13 2 173 - 1 - - 2 - - -
RWng - 5 - Paulo, Jaxson 80 4 - - - - - 12 - 119 1 - 1 - - - - -
5/8 - 6 - Marshall, Benji 66 15 - - 1 - - 16 - 88 - - 13 1 - - - - [0-66]
Half - 7 + Ilias, Lachlan 73 20 - 1 5 - - 14 1 78 1 - 6 - 1 - - - [0-58,65-80]
Prop - 8 - Tatola, Junior 43 25 - - - - - 16 - 136 - 1 - - - - - - [0-17,25-46,75-80]
Hook - 9 - Mamouzelos, Peter 65 50 - 2 2 - - 6 6 54 1 - - - - - - - [0-65] HIA
Prop - 16 - Cartwright, Jed 45 28 - 1 3 - - 13 - 92 - 1 - - - - - - [0-25,55-75] HIA
SRow - 11 - Su'A, Jaydn 80 40 - - 2 - - 13 - 126 - 2 - - - - - -
SRow - 12 - Host, Jacob 75 42 1 - 1 - - 11 - 104 - - - - - - - - [0-64,69-80] HIA
Lock - 13 - Nicholls, Mark 49 33 1 1 3 - - 17 - 164 - - - - - - - - (c) [0-26,46-69]
Int - 14 - Hawkins, Dean 22 7 - - - - - 5 - 30 - - 3 - - - - - [58-80]
Int - 10 - Mago, Patrick 45 22 - - 2 - - 13 - 134 - - - - - - - - [17-34,48-64,66-80]
Int - 15 + Moga, Tautau 30 20 1 - - - - 9 - 100 - - - - - - - - [34-48,64-80] OR
Int - 17 - Moale, Davvy 45 28 - - - - - 8 - 69 - - - - - - - - [26-55,64-80]
Conc - 18 - Arrow, Jai (DNP)
378 3 6 24 1 1 1970 7 9 25 2 4 2/5 - -
Completion Rate - 39/43 91%
Opposition Offloads - 4
Effective 1st Tackles
1 min 18m Marshall kick COF
3 min 4m Marshall kick COF
4 min 11m Ilias kick COF
6 min 0m Ilias kick TRY
8 min 22m Marshall kick COF 12m / SS-6A(Burns)
10 min 14m Ilias kick COF
12 min 24m SS No TRY SS Err(Burns)
15 min 25m Marshall kick
17 min 0m P GOAL
19 min 19m Marshall kick COF 8m / SS-6A(Cartwright)
20 min 0m SI Err TRY
24 min 83m P / Marshall kick 17m / SS P(Burns) 65m SS-6A(Mamouzelos)
26 min 10m SI Err SS Err(Burns)
27 min 0m Marshall kick TRY
31 min 35m Marshall kick 40-20 / P / Ilias kick DIG
33 min 91m SS Err(Ilias) SCR
35 min 57m Marshall kick SS NO TRY SS Err(Paulo) 22m / SS-6A(Ilias)
38 min 83m SI Err SCR / SI-6A / SS Err(Mamouzelos) SCR 47m / SS-6TG(Ilias)
SI Err
half time
40 min 16m KO
42 min 0m SI Err / TRY
45 min 39m Marshall kick COF
46 min 40m Ilias kick COF
48 min 15m Marshall kick COF
52 min 12m SI Err / SI-6A / SS NO TRY P / ChOv
54 min 86m SS Err(Taaffe) SCR
56 min 18m SI Err / Marshall kick COF
57 min 0m Taaffe kick CIG
59 min 25m Milne kick / 15m SS-6A(Cartwright)
62 min 34m Hawkins kick COF 29m SS-6A
63 min 40m Marshall kick
67 min 73m P-10SB / ChOv 8m / SS P(Nicholls) / SS Err(Milne) (SI TRY)
69 min 20m KO
71 min 23m Ilias kick
73 min 53m SI Err / Hawkins kick 1m / SS P(Moga) / (SI TRY)
75 min 20m KO
77 min 23m Hawkins kick / (SI TRY)
78 min 19m KO
SI Err
Average effective 1st tackle location
- 29.2m - for the whole match
- 27.6m - 1st half
- 31.1m - 2nd half
Other First Grade Matches
40-16 Mcky Syd Rstrs b Canberra (Relocated from Bruc due to Bondi Covid Outbreak)
28-16 Robi Melbourne b Cronulla (Relocated from Koga due to Bondi Covid Outbreak)
40-6 Robi Parramatta b Penrith (Relocated from WSS due to Bondi Covid Outbreak)
35-22 LngS Brisbane b Newcastle
46-18 NQSt Manly b Nth Qld
44-0 Robi Gold Coast b Warriors
38-0 Redc Canterbury b Wests-Tig (Relocated from WSS due to Bondi Covid Outbreak)
W D L B F A Diff PT
MELBOURNE 21 - 3 1 815 316 +499 44
PENRITH 21 - 3 1 676 286 +390 44
SOUTHS 20 - 4 1 775 453 +322 42
MANLY 16 - 8 1 744 492 +252 34
SYD RSTRS 16 - 8 1 630 489 +141 34
PARRAMATTA 15 - 9 1 566 457 +109 32
NEWCASTLE 12 - 12 1 428 571 -143 26
GOLD COAST 10 - 14 1 580 583 -3 22
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Cronulla 10 - 14 1 520 556 -36 22
Canberra 10 - 14 1 481 578 -97 22
St Geo-Ill 8 - 16 1 474 616 -142 18
Warriors 8 - 16 1 453 624 -171 18
Wests-Tig 8 - 15 1 500 714 -176 18
Brisbane 7 - 17 1 446 695 -249 16
Nth Qld 7 - 17 1 460 748 -288 16
Canterbury 3 - 21 1 340 710 -370 8
Judiciary News
No one has been charged out of the match.
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