Endeavour Field
Sat Aug 18, 7:30pm
This Weeks Cyberview from the Hill Late Changes
Late Changes Clark and Hunt dropped off the bench. Crocker was captain.
LOSS 7-20
The South Sydney Rabbitohs have gone down to the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks at Toyota Stadium tonight (Saturday), with the home side registering a 20 points to 7 win in round 24 of the Telstra Premiership. The Rabbitohs held a slender 7-6 lead with 14 minutes to go, but the Sharks made the most of their dominance of field position to record the win. The game could not have started in worse fashion for the Rabbitohs with Dave Taylor taking the kick off into touch in goal resulting in a drop out. However on the third tackle of the game the Sharks made an error and the Rabbitohs breathed a sigh of relief. The Sharks had the best of the ball over the opening ten minutes, however they could not finish off their sets and opportunities, blowing three try-scoring opportunities. The high intensity in both attack and defence from both sides continued over the opening 15 minutes, and it was not until the 19th minute that a side's defensive line broke, the Sharks' Andrew Fifita crashing over next to the posts from an inside ball from Jeff Robson. Todd Carney converted to give the home side a six-nil lead. The Sharks continued to have the better of the running with Paul Gallen's offloads hurting South Sydney. Todd Carney had an opportunity to extend the lead to eight with a simple penalty goal, but the kick was waved away in the 24th minute. From the 20-metre drop out, Fifita made an error giving the Rabbitohs some much needed field position, but no points came from it. The Sharks were peppering the Rabbitohs' left side defence, with Carney continually throwing long passes to the right, trying to get outside the Rabbitohs' oft-compressed defensive line. Souths were good enough to shut down these raids and the score remained at six-nil. The Rabbitohs found good field position again in the 34th minute when Dave Taylor performed a one-on-one strip mid-field, then the Rabbitohs received a penalty for a Sharks' attempted strip in that set of six. An error from Eddy Pettybourne thwarted the attacking raid, but the Rabbitohs were in the Sharks' end of the field for an extended period for the first time in the half. The Rabbitohs received two repeat sets in the final two minutes of the half thanks to pin point final kicks from halfback Adam Reynolds, forcing the Sharks to knock the ball dead in goal. However, the Rabbitohs could not breach the Sharks' line and the teams went into the half time break with the home side leading six-nil. South Sydney was struggling to mount consistent pressure due to a lack of quality field position over the opening 40 minutes, but both teams were playing high-intensity football in an entertaining game. The Rabbitohs were on the back foot from the get-go in the second half, a Ben Lowe high tackle penalty putting the Rabbitohs on the defensive in their own end. They managed to hold out the Sharks, but they were under pressure again. A dropped ball from Sam Burgess ten metres from his own line also hurt, but again, the Rabbitohs repelled the men from 'The Shire'. Burgess made up for his error in the 54th minute when he scored the Rabbitohs' first points. Souths received a penalty and therefore a repeat set deep in Cronulla territory. The ball went left to Sutton, who turned Sam Burgess back underneath him. He ran across field in front of the posts, then straightened, beating three defenders on his way to the goal line and a try beside the posts. Adam Reynolds' conversion levelled the scores at six-all. The Rabbitohs had found another gear and were working the ball out well from their own end and creating some attacking opportunities. Greg Inglis, in his come back game, was getting the Rabbitohs' sets off to the right start from the back and chiming into the back line when he saw a good chance to do so, as well as helping out the forwards with some much-needed hit ups. The 56th minute saw the Rabbitohs gain a good attacking position, only for Reynolds to make a simple error and kill off the raid on the Sharks' line. Five-eighth John Sutton was also coming into his own in the second stanza, running the ball more and causing problems for the Sharks' defence. Carney missed with a deadlock-breaking attempt at field goal in the 65th minute. Adam Reynolds returned serve one minute later with an ugly field goal attempt, with the video referee called in to adjudicate. The field goal was awarded, giving the Rabbitohs a one-point lead with 14 minutes left on the clock. The Sharks struck back three minutes later when Tyson Frizell scored on the back of a penalty, Carney's conversion taking the scoreline to 12-7 in favour of the home side with ten minutes left in the game. Cronulla camped themselves in South Sydney's end of the field for the next few sets, earning repeat sets and dominating the ball. A penalty for stripping the ball led to a Todd Carney penalty goal in the 77th minute, giving the Sharks a 14-7 lead with three minutes left on the clock. The Rabbitohs tried a short kick off but it did not come off, and the Sharks had good field position again. Carney missed another attempt at field goal with two minutes to go, meaning the Rabbitohs had to go the length of the field to stay in the contest. The ball was thrown around by the men in red and green, but eventually went into touch. The Sharks added another try in the final minute when John Williams chased through an Isaac De Gois kick behind the line, with Carney's conversion taking the final scoreline to 20-7 in favour of the home side.
19 min 0-6
53 min 6-6
66 min 7-6
69 min 7-12
76 min 7-14
80 min 7-20
S.Burgess tries
Reynolds 1 from 1 goals
Reynolds fieldgoal
Crowd 16,423
Referee T.Archer / B.Suttor
Penalities 4-6
Scrums 6-5
Min Tac Pe MT LB HU DR m Er OL K TA
Inglis 80 2 - - - 16 - 194 - - 1 -
Merritt.N 80 1 - - - 13 - 142 - 1 - -
King 80 13 - 1 - 10 2 77 2 - - -
Farrell 80 31 1 2 - 6 1 46 1 - - -
Everingham 80 10 - 1 - 11 4 116 - - - -
Sutton 80 23 - 2 - 15 1 140 - - 4 -
Reynolds 80 9 - 3 - 1 - 15 2 - 16 -
Burgess.L 41 31 1 1 - 7 - 67 - - - -
Luke 38 20 1 3 - 6 6 45 - - 1 -
Burgess.S 75 34 1 4 1 19 - 150 1 - 1 -
McQueen 44 20 - 3 - 5 - 43 - - - -
Taylor 72 33 - 5 - 12 - 126 - - - -
Crocker 50 37 1 - - 8 - 80 - - - -
Lowe 45 36 1 1 - 11 - 94 - - - -
Pettybourne 36 15 - - - 10 1 94 1 - - -
Peats 49 38 - - - 3 2 24 - - - -
Asotasi 30 16 - - - 6 - 60 - - - -
TOTAL 369 6 26 1 1513 7 1 23 -
Completion Rate 31/37 84%
Effective 1st Tackles
0 min100m SS Err (Taylor)
1 min 70m DO
2 min 53m CS Err SCR / SS Err (King)
5 min 3m CS Err SCR / P / Reynolds kick
7 min 88m Reynolds kick DIG 32m / SS P (Luke)
9 min 31m CS Err SCR / Sutton kick COF
11 min 9m Sutton kick COF
13 min 12m ChOv
15 min 12m Reynolds kick COF
17 min 77m Luke kick 22m / SS P (Crocker) / (CS TRY)
23 min 56m SS P (Farrell) / (CS NO GOAL) DO 56m
25 min 10m CS Err SCR / Reynolds kick OOF
27 min 18m Reynolds kick
29 min 16m Reynolds kick COF
31 min 32m SBurgess kick COF
33 min 19m Sutton kick COF
35 min 21m CS err / P / SS Err (Pettybourne) SCR
38 min 0m P / Reynolds kick CIG
39 min 0m Reynolds CIG
40 min 18m Merritt kick
half time
40 min 87m SS P (Lowe)
43 min 4m Reynolds kick COF
45 min 12m Reynolds kick
47 min 96m SS Err (SBurgess) SCR
49 min 18m CS Err SCR / Reynolds kick SCR
51 min 8m Reynolds kick
53 min 0m P / TRY
56 min 35m SS Err (Reynolds)
57 min 11m Reynolds kick
58 min 59m SS Err (Farrell) SCR
60 min 9m Sutton kick
62 min 13m Reynolds kick
64 min 26m Inglis kick
66 min 0m Reynolds kick FIELDGOAL
67 min 19m Reynolds kick COF
68 min 75m SS P (LBurgess) / (CS TRY)
72 min 29m Reynolds kick ChOv
74 min100m DO 70m / SS P (SBurgess) (CS GOAL)
79 min 39m SS Err (King) / (CS TRY)
Average effective 1st tackle location
- 33.0m - for the whole match
- 32.3m - 1st half
- 33.7m - 2nd half
If you now remove the tries
- 32.3m - 1st half
- 35.6m - 2nd half
Other FG Matches
19-18 Lang Melbourne b Brisbane
23-22 StAu Canterbury b Wests-Tigers
24-20 Bruc Canberra b Sydney
18-16 MtSm Penrith b Warriors
24-16 Robi Gold Coast b Parramatta
42-20 Brok Manly b Newcastle
32-22 Woll Nth Qld b St Geo-Ill
W D L B Diff PT
CANTERBURY 17 - 5 2 +195 38
MELBOURNE 15 - 7 2 +196 34
SOUTHS 14 - 8 2 +77 32
MANLY 14 - 8 2 +76 32
CRONULLA 11 1 10 2 +20 29
NTH QLD 12 - 10 2 +130 30
BRISBANE 11 - 11 2 +37 26
WESTS-TIGERS 11 - 11 2 -1 26
Canberra 11 - 11 2 -39 26
Gold Coast 10 - 12 2 -6 24
Newcastle 10 - 12 2 -20 24
St Geo-Ill 9 - 13 2 -86 22
Warriors 8 - 14 2 -60 20
Sydney 7 1 14 2 -155 19
Penrith 7 - 15 2 -173 18
Parramatta 6 - 16 2 -180 16
Judiciary News
No one was placed on report.
NYC U20 Round 24
v Cronulla-Sutherland
Sat Aug 18, 5:15pm
LOSS 18-30
No changes Souths were 1-17. The South Sydney Rabbitohs' under 20s Toyota Cup side has fallen to the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 30 points to 18 at Toyota Stadium tonight (Saturday). The Rabbitohs were the first to score in both halves but failed to capitalise on their early success both stanzas by allowing the Sharks to re-group and take the victory. The Rabbitohs opened the game in fine form, putting the Sharks under pressure from the get go. In the tenth minute of play, the Rabbitohs struck when Kyle Turner charged onto a flat Luke Keary pass close to the line. Apisai Koroisau's conversion took the score to six-nil in South Sydney's favour. Both teams were doing their best to bust each other's defensive lines, but some desperate defence from the Rabbitohs kept the Sharks out for 15 minutes despite being camped in their own end of the field. A try saving tackle from Aaron Gray in the corner prevented the Sharks from scoring in the 24th minute, but it would not take long for the boys from the Shire to post their first points. Five minutes later prop Rodney Coates scored, then four minutes later centre Daniel Moroko scored, giving the Sharks a 12-6 lead after 33 minutes. The Rabbitohs' defence was solid for 25 minutes, but those two quick tries gave the Sharks the advantage at the break. The opening to the second half followed a similar script to the first, with the Rabbitohs scoring first through five-eighth Dylan Walker in the 45th minute. A yawning gap opened up in the middle of the Sharks' defensive line, allowing the Australian Schoolboys representative a saloon passage to the line. The Sharks then scored twice through Tokerau Raru and Michael Lichaa in the 54th and 70th minutes respectively, opening up a 12-point advantage for the home side. The Rabbitohs reduced the deficit to just six points with six minutes left on the clock when interchange player Blake Matthews weaved and dodged his way to the line, with Apisai Koroisau's conversion taking the scoreline to 24-18. The Sharks put the result beyond doubt in the penultimate minute when halfback Penani Manumalealii charged at the line and scored, with the conversion taking the final scoreline to 30-18 in favour of the Sharks.
10 min 6-0
29 min 6-6
34 min 6-12
45 min 12-12
64 min 12-18
70 min 12-24
74 min 18-24
79 min 18-30
Turner, Walker, Matthews tries
Koroisau 3 from 3 goals
Other NYC Matches
60-18 Lang Melbourne b Brisbane
22-12 StAu Canterbury b Wests-Tigers
44-20 Bruc Canberra b Sydney
18-16 MtSm Warriors b Penrith
34-32 Robi Gold Coast b Parramatta
30-18 Brok Manly b Newcastle
34-16 Woll St Geo-Ill b Nth Qld
W D L B Diff PT
CANBERRA 16 - 6 2 +215 36
CANTERBURY 15 1 6 2 +218 35
WARRIORS 15 1 6 2 +156 35
WESTS-TIGERS 14 - 8 2 +174 32
PENRITH 13 1 8 2 +117 31
SYDNEY 12 2 8 2 +108 30
ST GEO-ILL 12 1 9 2 +91 29
SOUTHS 12 1 9 2 +72 29
Melbourne 11 2 9 2 -23 28
Cronulla 11 2 9 2 -33 28
Newcastle 9 1 12 2 +88 23
Brisbane 7 - 15 2 -170 18
Nth Qld 6 2 14 2 -185 18
Manly 5 2 15 2 -305 16
Parramatta 5 - 17 2 -200 14
Gold Coast 5 - 18 2 -274 14
Club Championship
W D L B Diff PT
CANTERBURY 32 1 11 4 +408 73
Canberra 27 - 17 4 +166 62
Melbourne 24 2 16 4 +165 62
Souths 26 1 17 4 +149 61
Wests-Tigers 25 - 19 4 +153 58
Cronulla 23 3 18 4 -1 57
Warriors 23 1 20 4 +90 55
St Geo-Ill 21 1 22 4 -1 51
Sydney 19 3 22 4 -48 49
Nth Qld 19 2 23 4 -57 48
Newcastle 19 1 24 4 +46 47
Penrith 20 1 23 4 -37 47
Manly 19 2 23 4 -219 46
Brisbane 18 - 26 4 -120 44
Gold Coast 15 - 29 4 -278 38
Parramatta 11 - 33 4 -356 30
NSW Cup Round 24
v Auckland, Mt Smart Stadium #2
Sat Aug 18, 1:00pm
LOSS 16-26
Late Changes Hyde replaced McKinnon at hooker. Leo Vaiga replaced Hyland on the bench. The North Sydney Bears have suffered a defeat at the hands of the Auckland Vulcans in New Zealand on Saturday afternoon, falling 26 points to 16 at Mt Smart #2. The Bears opened the game well on the back of tries to Bennett Leslie and Jack Hawkins in the first 20 minutes. The Bears led 10-6 at the half time break, but the Vulcans would swamp them in the second half, being out scored 20 points to 6 over the final 40 minutes to record their seventh loss for the season.
12 min 4-0
20 min 10-0
29 min 10-6
46 min 10-10
51 min 10-14
65 min 10-20
68 min 16-20
75 min 16-26
Hawkins, Leslie, Molan tries
Carr 2 from 2, Talanoa 0 from 1 goals
Other NSW Cup Matches
34-26 MtPr Mt Prtchrd b Wentworthville
40-10 Woll Illawarra b Manly
31-18 Ende Cronulla b Canterbury
34-26 Wind Windsor b Newtown
78-14 Town Newcastle b Wests
W D L B Diff PT
CANTERBURY 14 1 7 2 +349 33
NORTHS 14 1 7 2 +196 33
WINDSOR 14 - 8 2 +211 32
NEWCASTLE 13 - 9 2 +187 30
ILLAWARRA 12 1 9 2 +182 29
WENTWORTHVILLE 12 - 10 2 +200 28
BALMAIN-RYDE 12 - 10 2 +41 28
NEWTOWN 12 1 10 1 +143 27
Mt Pritchard 11 - 11 2 -21 26
Auckland 11 - 11 2 -22 26
Cronulla 11 - 11 2 -134 24
Manly 7 - 16 1 -322 17
Wests - - 22 2-1006 4