Sydney Football Stadium
Sat Sep 22, 7:50pm
Selected Preliminary Final Teams
CyberView from the Hill - Last Week
CyberView from the Hill - This Week
Late Changes
Clark has withdrawn with a ankle injury and Tracey were trimmed 24h before the match. Burns and Nicholls were 18th and 19th men.
LOSS 4-12
Rabbitohs have fallen short in Grand Final qualifier The three tries to none 12-4 loss to arch rivals Sydney Roosters had all the drama befitting the final game to be played at Allianz Stadium before the bulldozers move in. It was witnessed by the venue's largest crowd for a sporting event in 30 years – 44,380. Ball control and big hits was the order of the day early. Various combinations of the Burgess brothers forced the ball from Jared Waerea-Hargreaves and Paul Momirovski's grasps in a bruising opening 10 minutes. Souths took a early lead in the 13th minute with a long range penalty goal. Waerea-Hargreaves got one back when he forced George Burgess to knock-on from the re-start to a Reynolds penalty. The Roosters scored the only try in the first half (16th minute), from crisp passing by halves Cronk and Keary, fullback James Tedesco then added his own exclamation mark with a sublime cut-out pass for winger Daniel Tupou. Conversion was unsuccessful. Within a few minutes Souths were again on the attack and only denied a try when the finalpass from Alex Johnston drifted forward as Robert Jennings crossed in the corner. Another error by the Roosters and morepressur from Souths saw a penalty awarded and Reynolds equalised in the 25th minute. Cronk tried to break the deadlock with that field goal attempt 20 seconds from the halftime siren, but it drifted slightly left. But then Daniel Tupou dropped the ball 10 metres out from the Roosters line, before Sam Burgess knocked on in a clumsy play-the-ball. It all contributed to 11 errors and eight penalties in total after 40 minutes. Scores were locked at 4-4 at the break. Cronk returned to the field in the second half but his left arm was still limp. He made a few tackles but couldn't kick the ball. Jake Friend kicked for touch on the fifth tackle – but it sailed out on the full – in the 42nd minute while Luke Keary kicked for the line in a penalty two minutes later, and took over end-of-set kicks. Passing to his left Cronk also had its difficulties with Cronk not able to get much distance. But he did figure in Blake Ferguson's 48th minute try, although it was the Roosters right-side winger that did the most work. He took an off-load from his centre Joseph Manu and then side-stepped two cover defenders to grab his side the lead 8-4. Again the conversion was missed. A late tackle by Junior Tatola brought Cronk to his knees and a penalty the Roosters way. Once again they missed at their shot at goal. But in the next set the Roosters put up a wellplaced bomb which was knocked on by Graham and gifted for Souths junior Momorski a simple try and take the score to 12-4 after again the conversion went wide, with 10 minutes on the clock. Souths put on some late attacking raids but nothing was working against the strong defence. A late penalty saw Raeynold go for a desperate penalty goal to bring the gap back to 6 points. But alas it went wide and the match ended at 4-12, with Souths bowing out of the finals race. All Souths points were by No.7 Adam Reynolds with two penalties. Handling errors were also a feature of the second half - 26 in total for the match. Inglis reflected on the finals exit. "Where we needed to be better was execution in attack. We didn't get to the right areas of the field we wanted to run our shapes from. "Probably we weren't the best version of ourselves tonight either so that's also what makes it disappointing."
13 min 2-0
16 min 2-4
25 min 4-4
49 min 4-8
70 min 4-12
no tries
Reynolds 2 from 3 goals
Crowd 44,380
Referee A.Klein/A.Gee
Penalities 8-6
Scrums 9-9
Final Line Up
Min Tac Pe MT LB Rn DR m Er OL K TA T G/A FG
Flbk - 1 - Johnston, Alex 80 2 - 1 - 12 1 90 2 - - - - - -
LWng - 5 - Jennings, Robert 80 - - - - 14 - 132 - - - - - - -
LCtr - 3 - Inglis, Greg 80 7 1 4 - 17 1 140 1 1 - - - - - (c)
RCtr - 4 - Gagai, Dane 80 18 1 3 - 10 3 73 2 1 - - - - -
RWng - 2 - Graham, Campbell 80 5 - 1 - 12 1 109 2 - 1 - - - -
5/8 - 6 - Walker, Cody 80 14 1 3 - 13 2 77 - 1 2 - - - -
Half - 7 - Reynolds, Adam 80 17 - - - 5 - 24 1 - 14 - - 2/3 -
Prop - 8 - Burgess, Tom 54 31 - 1 - 12 - 110 - - - - - - -
Hook - 9 - Cook, Damien 80 39 - - - 6 4 65 1 - 3 - - - -
Prop - 10 - Burgess, George 44 26 - 5 - 11 - 84 1 - - - - - -
SRow - 11 - Sutton, John 80 19 - 2 1 13 - 116 - 2 - - - - -
SRow - 12 - Crichton, Angus 80 36 - 4 - 8 - 53 1 1 - - - - -
Lock - 13 - Burgess, Sam 71 38 1 - - 14 1 125 2 - - - - - -
Int - 15 - Murray, Cameron 51 29 1 - - 13 - 99 1 2 - - - - -
Int - 17 - Britt, Dean 12 6 - - - 5 - 45 - - - - - - -
Int - 20 - Tatola, Junior 8 7 1 - - - - - - - - - - - -
Int - 14 - Hunt, Hymel - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
294 6 25 1 1352 14 8 20 - - 2/3 -
Completion Rate - 28 / 38 74%
Opposition Offloads - 3
Effective 1st Tackles
1 min 23m Reynolds kick COF
3 min 85m Cook kick SCR 29m / SS P(Gagai)
7 min 27m ES Err SCR P/ Reynolds kick SS Err(Gagai)
9 min 21m ES Err SCR / SS Err(Gagai)
10 min 43m Reynolds kick
12 min 19m Reynolds kick COF
13 min 0m ES Err P GOAL
15 min 86m SS Err(GBurgess) SCR / (ES TRY)
17 min 12m KO
20 min 12m P / NO TRY SS Err(AJohnston)
22 min 0m ES Err SCR / Cook kick CIG
25 min 0m P GOAL
27 min 52m Reynolds kick COF 17m / SS P(Murray)
30 min 18m P / Reynolds kick COF
32 min 73m SS Err(SBurgess) SCR
33 min 25m Reynolds kick COF
35 min 57m Reynolds kick 25m / SS P(SBurgess)
38 min 59m ES Err SCR / SS Err(Crichton) SCR
half time
40 min 20m KO
42 min 16m Reynolds kick COF
44 min 37m ES Err / Reynolds kick 10m SS P(Walker)
46 min 95m DO 71m SS-6TG(Graham) SCR 91m SS P(Inglis) / (ES TRY)
50 min 13m KO
52 min 5m Reynolds kick
54 min 8m Cook kick
57 min 5m ES Err SCR P P / Walker kick
59 min 13m ES Err SCR / Reynolds kick
60 min 15m ES Err SCR SS Err(AJohnston) SCR
63 min 36m Reynold DIG
65 min 26m ES Err SCR / SS Err(SBurgess) SCR
66 min 100m SS Err(Cook) 49m / SS P(Tatola) (ES NO GOAL)
69 min 37m 20-DO / SS Err(Graham) (ES TRY)
71 min 35m Sh-KO
72 min 38m ES Err / SS Err(Reynolds) DIG
73 min 5m ES Err / Reynolds kick COF
75 min 0m Graham kick CIG
77 min 55m SS Err(Murray)
79 min 0m P NO GOAL
80 min 21m Walker kick
Average effective 1st tackle location
- 31.4m - for the whole match
- 35.3m - 1st half
- 28.0m - 2nd half
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