2017 NRL Premiership - Round 17

South Sydney v Penrith

Stadium Australia

Sun Jul 2, 4:00pm

Selected Round 17 Teams

CyberView from the Hill - Last Week

CyberView from the Hill - This Week

Late Changes

Rochow and Murray were trimmed 24 hours before the match. Cherrington and Turner were 18th and 19th men.

WIN 42-14

Alex Johnston etched his name into South Sydney folklore tonight when he equalled the Club’s try scoring record for one match, scoring five tries in the Rabbitohs’ 42-14 victory over the Penrith Panthers at ANZ Stadium today (Sunday). 14,103 Members and fans watched Johnston put his name in lights next to Club champions such as Harold Horder, Alan Quinlivan, Don Manson, Johnny Graves, Ian Moir, Eric Sladden and modern day hero Nathan Merritt with his five-try effort today in round 17. It was Adam Reynolds who controlled the game for the Rabbitohs as the forwards laid the platform for the Rabbitohs backs to tear apart the Panthers’ defence. The Rabbitohs kicked off and met the Panthers with some solid defence in the opening set but it was the mountain men who would get the upper hand on the scoreboard early in the piece. The Panthers were the first to post points from an eighth minute penalty goal to Nathan Cleary, followed three minutes later when Matt Moylan scored from a dubious long ball from Dallin Watene-Zelezniak. Cleary converted to take the Panthers’ lead out to eight points. A fracas broke out in the 16th minute of play which saw South Sydney captain Sam Burgess and Penrith winger Dallin Watene-Zelezniak both sent to the sin bin for slapping. The Rabbitohs struck almost immediately when an errant Moylan pass was scooped up by Alex Johnston who raced 90 metres to score adjacent to the uprights. Adam Reynolds converted from close range to reduce the deficit to two points midway through the first half. Both side through everything at each other for the next ten minutes, but it would be the men in red and green who would snatch the lead in the 32nd minute through a try to rookie winger Braidon Burns. Reynolds targeted his former under 20s team mate, Josh Mansour, with a pin-point cross field kick, allowing Burns to fly above Mansour’s head to score against his former club. Reynolds slotted the conversion from the eastern touch line to give the Rabbitohs a 12-8 lead. The Rabbitohs would extend that lead just before the half time break with another super-accurate cross field kick from Reynolds finding the arms of John Sutton who threw a cut-out pass for Alex Johnstone to touch down for his second of the afternoon. Reynolds converted from the western touch line this time to take the score line to 18-8 in favour of South Sydney. Souths were not finished yet for the half with Alex Johnston crossing for his third try of the half in the 40th minute of play. Sam Burgess popped a miracle offload to Cody Walker who charged through a hole and kicked into the open space, Johnston winning the foot race to score. Reynolds converted to take the half time scoreboard to 24-8 in favour of the good guys. The Rabbitohs started the second half the way the finished the first, with Alex Johnston scoring his fourth try of the game in the second minute of the half. Angus Crichton made a huge bust up the right edge and some hot potato footy led Braidon Burns to get an offload away in traffic. The ball made its way to Reynolds who kicked to the left, finding Sam Burgess who offloaded to Johnston, who strolled over for his fourth. Reynolds converted from out wide to establish a 22-point lead. Another left side try to the Rabbitohs came in the 49th minute when Adam Reynolds made a break up the middle, then on the next play changed the angle of the attack and put in a perfect short kick behind the line for Sam Burgess to score. In the 60th minute, Alex Johnston equalled the Club record for the number of tries scored in one match, crossing for his fifth try of the match, which started from a Damien Cook offload. Reynolds converted from in front to establish a 42-8 lead. The Rabbitohs’ attack was on song in the second stanza, but their defence was equally as strong, holding out the Panthers who were consistently attacking in South Sydney’s half for over 15 minutes. The Panthers managed to score a consolation try in the penultimate minute of the match with Josh Mansour scoring off a grubber kick from Waqa Blake. Cleary converted to take the final score line to South Sydney 42 – Penrith 14. Adam Reynolds performed close to his best today, controlling the tempo of the game and the position of the ball with his kicking accuracy. He played a major hand in more than half of the Rabbitohs’ seven tries either with his boot, his pass selection or his running game. The Rabbitohs now have a short turnaround before taking on their traditional rivals and neighbours, the Sydney Roosters, on Friday night at Allianz Stadium.

 7 min  0-2
10 min  0-8
17 min  6-8
31 min 12-8
37 min 18-8
39 min 24-8
41 min 30-8
48 min 36-8
58 min 42-8
78 min 42-14

Johnston 5, Burns, S.Burgess tries
Reynolds 7 from 7 goals

15min 10SB Burgess, Sam             Slapping

Crowd       14,103
Referee     M.Cecchin/J.Stone

Penalities   8-6
Scrums       1-4

Final Line Up
                                 Min Tac Pe MT LB  Rn  DR    m Er OL   K TA  T  G/A  FG
Flbk -  1 - Walker, Cody          80  10  -  1  1  18   2  167  1  -   -  2  -  -     -
LWng -  2 - Johnston, Alex        80   2  -  -  2   8   -  198  -  -   -  -  5  -     -
LCnt -  4 - Goodwin, Bryson       80   9  -  1  -  12   2  115  1  2   -  -  -  -     -
RCnt -  3 - Gray, Aaron           80  10  -  1  -  13   1  105  1  2   1  -  1  -     -
RWng -  5 - Burns, Braidon        80   6  -  2  -   7   2   58  -  1   -  -  -  -     -
5/8  -  6 - Sutton, John          80  12  -  3  -  12   -   72  -  1   3  -  -  -     -
Half -  7 - Reynolds, Adam        80  11  -  5  1  10   -   55  -  1  15  2  -  7/7   -
Prop -  8 - Burgess, Tom          39  22  -  6  -  13   -  134  1  -   -  -  -  -     -
Hook -  9 - Farah, Robbie         55  26  -  1  -   6   4   49  1  2   4  -  -  -     -
Prop - 10 - Tyrrell, Dave         45  31  1  2  -   7   -   63  -  -   -  -  -  -     -
SRow - 11 - Fuimaono, Tyrell      51  25  -  -  -   9   1   84  -  -   -  -  -  -     -
SRow - 12 - Crichton, Angus       70  23  -  3  1  15   -  144  -  2   -  -  -  -     -
Lock - 13 - Burgess, Sam          70  37  3  4  -  14   -  114  1  3   1  1  1  -     - (c)

Int  - 14 - Cook, Damien          25  17  1  3  -   4   3   27  -  -   1  -  -  -     -
Int  - 15 - Clark, Jason          42  18  -  3  -  12   -   77  -  4   -  -  -  -     -
Int  - 16 - Musgrove, Zane        36  14  -  2  -  12   -  109  -  -   -  -  -  -     -
Int  - 17 - Burgess, George       40  13  -  -  -  12   -  142  -  -   -  -  -  -     -

TOTAL                                286  6 37  5         1714  6 18  25  6  7  7/7   -

Completion Rate      - 32 / 37  86%

Opposition Offloads  - 4

Effective 1st Tackles

 0 min  15m KO
 1 min  13m Reynolds kick COF
 3 min  14m Reynolds kick SS Err(SBurgess)
 5 min 100m DO 74m / SS P(Tyrrell) (Pe GOAL)
 8 min  26m KO
 9 min  26m Renolds kick COF / (Pe TRY)
12 min  14m KO
15 min  35m P / Reynolds kick 20m / SS P(SBurgess)
17 min   0m Pe Err TRY
20 min  28m Reynolds kick COF
23 min  50m SS Err(Farah) SCR
25 min  92m Farah kick 54m / SS P(Clark)
29 min   0m P / Farah kick SBurgess kick CIG 0m
31 min   0m Reynolds kick TRY
34 min  15m Reynolds kick SCR
37 min   0m P / Reynolds kick TRY
39 min   0m TRY

half time

41 min   0m Farah kick Reynolds kick TRY
44 min  20m Farah kick
45 min  58m Walker kick
48 min   0m Pe Err SCR / Pe 6TG / Reynolds kick TRY
51 min   0m P / Reynolds kick CIG
53 min   1m Reynolds kick Sutton kick
55 min  40m Reynolds kick COF 8m / SS P(SBurgess)
57 min  75m DO
58 min   0m Pe Err / TRY
61 min  18m Sutton kick
63 min   0m Pe Err SCR / Reynolds kick CIG
65 min   4m Sutton kick SS Err(TFuimaono) NO TRY
66 min  32m P / SS Err(Gray) SCR 10m / SS P(SBurgess)
68 min  89m DO 67m / SS P(Cook)
71 min  40m Pe Err / Cook kick
73 min  21m P / P SS Err(TBurgess) SCR
75 min   4m SS Err(Goodwin)
77 min  10m Pe Err P / Reynolds kick COF 10m / (Pe TRY)

Average effective 1st tackle location
- 24.2m - for the whole match

- 25.9m - 1st half 
- 22.9m - 2nd half 

Other NRL Matches

13-12 StAu Parramatta b Canterbury
20-10 Robi Gold Coast b St Geo-Ill
42-12 Lang Melbourne  b Brisbane
44-12 Gosf Cronulla   b Syd Rstrs
26-22 Prth Manly      b Warriors
31-18 Bruc Nth Qld    b Canberra
33-12 NISC Wests-Tig  b Newcastle
   
               W D  L B Diff PT
MELBOURNE     13 -  3 1 +136 28
CRONULLA      11 -  5 1  +85 24
MANLY         10 -  5 2  +83 24
SYD RSTRS     11 -  5 1  +51 24
BRISBANE      10 -  6 1  +56 22
NTH QLD       10 -  6 1  +43 22
ST GEO-ILL     9 -  7 1  +56 20
PARRAMATTA     9 -  7 1  -35 20
Penrith        6 -  9 2   +1 16
Warriors       7 -  9 1  -26 16
Souths         6 -  9 2  -27 16
Canberra       6 - 10 1  +23 14
Canterbury     6 - 10 1  -61 14
Gold Coast     6 - 10 1  -62 14
Wests-Tigers   4 - 12 1 -157 10
Newcastle      2 - 13 2 -166  8
      

Judiciary News

Rabbitohs forward Thomas Burgess has been charged with grade one tripping by the Match Review Committee following a incident in the 66th minute in Sunday afternoon's clash with the Panthers. The base penalty for this charge is $1,500. Burgess has one prior non-similiar offences in the last two years which results in a 20% loading on the charge. Resulting in a total charge of $1,800 fine. Thomas Burgess has since taken an early guilty plea. Burgess will incur a revised fine of $1,350 and be free to play in Friday's clash with the Sydney Roosters.

U20 National Youth Holden Cup - Round 17

v Penrith, 1:45pm

DRAW 16-16

Late Changes - Graham and Pheonix Hunt were trimmed 24 hours before the match. Mailata, Mougios, Shaich-Wise were out. Johnstone started second row, Ta'avale on the bench.

The NYC Rabbitohs have finished up with a 16-16 draw in their Round 17 clash this afternoon (Sunday) against the Penrith Panthers at ANZ Stadium. The NYC Rabbitohs started the game off strong kicking off and claiming possession by forcing a knock on in the first minute. The Rabbitohs put on a great performance both in attack and defence in the opening minutes, forcing their way into the Panthers danger zone and holding the Panthers from a try holding their player up in goal. And the Rabbitohs were soon rewarded through a sturdy display of teamwork. A swift backline play with a pass out wide saw Jalen Reweti stretch out towards the try line and score the first try for the afternoon. Dean Hawkins slotted the conversion straight through the uprights and the Rabbitohs had a six point to zero lead with nine minutes down. The next 20 minutes of play saw an even effort across the field but the Panthers were the next to add points to the board. After a couple of attempts at the Rabbitohs try line they made their way over through hooker Ray Maroun. Halfback Dean Blore successfully kicked the conversion and the scores were level six points all. But the Rabbitohs wouldn’t let the Panthers have them for long and a quick movement from Dylan O’Connor saw him step through two defenders and over to bring the Rabbitohs back into the lead. The conversion was no good but the Rabbitohs led 10 points to six with a couple of minutes left in the first half. The Panthers were quick to catch up in the second half, firing out their second try four minutes into the half. Blore took the Panthers into the lead for the first time in the match 12 points to 10 with a successful shot at goal. But the Rabbitohs got their hands on the lead once again with Mawene Hiroti slamming the ball down over the try line in the 50th minute. Hawkins made up for his missed conversion nailing the kick and the Rabbitohs took a small lead 16 points to 12. With only a few minutes remaining in the game, the Panthers side powered up and a strong push got them over the line to level the scores 16 points all. A missed conversion locked the scores and the fight was on with two minutes left on the clock. No more points were to be scored and the game would finish up with a draw 16-all.

 8 min  6-0
25 min  6-6
36 min 10-6
43 min 10-12
50 min 16-12
77 min 16-16

Reweti, O'Connor, M.Hiroti tries
Hawkins 2 from 3 goals

Penalities     7-7
Scrums         6-2

Final Line Up
                                 Min Tac Pe MT LB  Rn  DR    m Er OL   K TA  T  G/A  FG
Flbk -  1 - Cordtz, Beau          80   3  1  3  -  17   3  203  1  -   3  3  -  -     -
LWng -  2 - Reweti, Jalen         80   9  -  3  1  15   1  155  -  -   -  -  1  -     -
LCnt -  4 - Hiroti, Mawene        80  13  -  8  1  10   -   98  1  -   -  -  1  -     -
RCnt -  3 - O’Connor, Dylan       80   9  -  6  1  15   -  144  -  -   -  -  1  -     -
RWng -  5 - Taukamo, Tyrone       80   7  -  3  1  14   -  168  1  -   -  -  -  -     -
5/8  -  6 - Manowski, Blake       49  14  -  4  -   7   2   59  -  -   -  -  -  -     -
Half -  7 - Hawkins, Dean         80  27  -  6  -  12   -   75  1  -  17  -  -  2/3   -
Prop -  8 - Saunders, Josh        69  28  2  4  -   7   -   85  -  -   -  -  -  -     -
Hook -  9 - Leddy, Harry          65  21  2  2  -  10  10   82  -  -   -  -  -  -     -
Prop - 10 - Ili, Kalani           30  11  -  3  -   7   -   79  -  -   -  -  -  -     - (c)
SRow - 11 - Koloamatangi, Keaon   58  23  -  2  -  12   -  108  1  1   -  -  -  -     -
SRow - 15 - Johnstone, Sam        65  36  1  6  -   8   -   90  -  -   -  -  -  -     -
Lock - 13 - Hamlin, Gabe          57  15  -  2  -  10   -  100  -  -   -  -  -  -     -

Int  - 12 - Ta'avale, Lucky       70  33  1  3  -   9   -   90  -  -   -  -  -  -     -
Int  - 14 - Hippi, Theo            7   3  -  3  -   2   -   30  -  -   -  -  -  -     -
Int  - 17 - Rodwell, Ky           62  30  - 10  -   5   -   51  -  -   -  -  -  -     -
Int  - 19 - Fuimaono, Henry       27  14  -  2  -   9   -   88  -  2   -  -  -  -     -

TOTAL                                306  7 70  4         1705  6  3  20  3  3  2/3   -

Opposition Offloads - 14

Other NYC Matches

26-18 StAu Canterbury b Parramatta
26-24 Robi Gold Coast b St Geo-Ill
48-18 Lang Brisbane   b Melbourne
32-18 Gosf Cronulla   b Syd Rstrs
58-12 Brok Manly      b Warriors
36-14 Bruc Canberra   b Nth Qld
28-18 NISC Newcastle  b Wests-Tig

               W D  L B Diff PT
CRONULLA      13 1  2 1 +322 29
PENRITH       10 2  3 2 +168 26
ST GEO-ILL    12 -  4 1  +32 26
NEWCASTLE      9 -  6 2  +26 22
NTH QLD        9 -  7 1  +82 20
MANLY          8 -  7 2  +72 20
GOLD COAST     9 -  7 1  -38 20
PARRAMATTA     8 -  7 1  +33 18
Brisbane       8 -  8 1   -2 18
Souths         6 1  8 2  -16 17
Canberra       7 -  9 1  -35 16
Melbourne      7 -  9 1  -70 16
Syd Rstrs      6 - 10 1  +24 14
Canterbury     5 1 10 1 -124 13
Wests-Tigers   3 1 12 1 -324  9
Warriors       3 - 13 1 -150  8

NRL Club Championship

               W D  L B Diff PT
CRONULLA      24 1  7 2 +407 53
St Geo-Ill    21 - 11 2  +96 46
Manly         18 - 12 4 +165 44
Melbourne     20 - 12 2  +66 44
Penrith       16 2 11 4 +169 42
Nth Qld       19 - 13 2 +125 42
Brisbane      18 - 14 2  +54 40
Syd Rstrs     17 - 15 2  +75 38
Parramatta    17 - 15 2   -2 38
Gold Coast    15 - 18 2 -100 34
Souths        12 1 18 4  -43 33
Canberra      13 - 19 2  -12 30
Newcastle     11 - 19 4 -140 30
Canterbury    11 1 19 2 -185 27
Warriors      10 - 22 2 -186 24
Wests-Tigers   7 1 24 2 -481 19

Reserve Grade - Intrust Super NSW Premiership Round 17

v Penrith, North Sydney Oval, Fri Jun 30 7:30pm

LOSS 10-17

Late Changes - Schaumakel, Rochow were out. Graham started centre, Rogers hooker, Rudolf prop, Dietz and Freebairn on the bench.

Penrith have put aside the recent spate of player departures to consolidate third spot on the Intrust Super Premiership NAW ladder, after overcoming North Sydney 17-10 in a tough grinding affair at North Sydney Oval. The win was achieved despite losing Viliame Kikau to the sin-bin - not once, but twice in the opening half - in an at times fiery contest between the competition's two best defensive teams. Once again Darren Nicholls was instrumental in his side’s win, as he put Penrith back in front late in the game with a calmly-taken field goal against his former team, before putting the game beyond doubt setting up Liam Martin for his maiden try at this level. Conversely in a losing team, fullback Eli Levido was equally outstanding, scoring a double and defusj g everything Penrith threw at him. Penrith’s resolute defence was put to test early in the game conceding several penalties culminating with Kikau being put in the sin-bin for ten minutes for back-chatting to referee Kasey Badger in the ninth minute of play. However the Bears bombed a golden opportunity to score first points when a shift left looked likely to result in a try only for centre Murphy to lose possession as he crossed the line. The Bears also found themselves in similar trouble with Badger when they too were reduced to 12 men when Cheyne Whitelaw was sent to the sin-bin, which Penrith took full advantage of, to open the scoring through Wayde Egan with a quick dart from dummy half, to lead 6-0 after 16 minutes. Despite trailing, Norths enjoyed the better of possession and territory ad it was no surprise to see them level on the scores when Luke Kelly’s cross-field kick took a wicked bounce, eluding fullback Jarome Luai and into the hands of his opposite number to score after 24 minutes. The game took another twist when Viliame Kikau was controversially sent to the sin-bin for a second time in the opening half, this time when in possession short of the try line. Despite being a man down, the visitors were able to hang on to go into the sheds level at 6-6. It was a different story after the break as the Bears took quick advantage of their one-man superiority to take a 10-6 lead, when Levido sliced past the Penrith outside backs to score out wide. The game ebbed and flowed but it was Penrith who would score next and level the scores through prolific try scorer Maiko Sivo, who cleaned up a loose Bears pass and powered his way 30 metres to crash over out wide. The visitors had the opportunity to regain the lead inside the final ten minutes, when an enterprising last tackle play saw Nicholls go to the line and offload only for the ball to evade Sivo and go into touch. But Penrith would not be denied the lead in their next set of six when Nicholls calmly nailed a field goal from 25 metres out, directly in front and it was fitting that it would be the Panthers half that would seal a valuable two points, coming up with the clutch play on the last tackle, breaking the line before passing back inside to back-rower Liam Martin to give Penrith their third successive win.

14 min  0-6
21 min  6-6
41 min 10-6
63 min 10-10
73 min 10-11
75 min 10-17

Levido 2 tries
Levido 1 from 2 goals

14 min 10SB Whitelaw, Cheyne     Repeated Infringements

Penalties      14-9

Final Line Up
                                 Min Tac Pe MT LB  Rn  DR    m Er OL   K TA  T  G/A  FG
Flbk -  1 - Levido, Eli           80   2  -  1  1  18   2  153  -  -   1  -  2  1/2   -
LWng -  2 - Moceidreke, Sitiveni  80   2  -  1  -  15   1  125  2  3   -  -  -  -     -
LCnt -  3 - Graham, Campbell      80  18  -  3  -  16   -  128  -  -   -  -  -  -     -
RCnt -  4 - Murphy, Ed            80   6  -  1  -  14   2  105  1  2   -  -  -  -     -
RWng -  5 - Miski, Abbas          80   1  -  -  -  17   -  124  -  -   -  -  -  -     -
5/8  -  6 - Doueihi, Adam         80  20  -  1  -   8   -   45  1  -  10  -  -  -     -
Half -  7 - Kelly, Luke           80  26  -  1  -   5   1   28  2  -   4  1  -  -     -
Prop -  8 - Mauala, Fred Jnr      40  25  -  2  -  10   -   95  -  -   -  -  -  -     -
Hook - 14 - Rogers, Piki           1   1  -  -  -   -   -    -  -  -   -  -  -  -     -
Prop - 16 - Rudolf, Toby          42  32  -  2  -   7   -   55  -  -   -  -  -  -     -
SRow - 11 - Murray, Cameron       80  48  -  1  1  12   -  105  1  -   1  -  -  -     -
SRow - 12 - Gosiewski, Jack       80  31  1  1  -  15   -  122  1  1   -  -  -  -     -
Lock - 13 - Whitelaw, Cheyne      70  62  5  2  -  12   -   83  -  -   -  1  -  -     -

Int  -  9 - Deitz, Brad           79  41  1  4  -   6   5   54  -  -   1  -  -  -     - (c)
Int  - 15 - Greinke, Brett        35  29  1  1  -   6   -   36  1  -   -  -  -  -     -
Int  - 17 - Williams, Clayton     26  24  1  3  -   7   -   68  -  -   -  -  -  -     -
Int  - 18 - Freebairn, Tom        19  18  -  1  -   1   -    8  -  -   -  -  -  -     -

TOTAL                                386  9 25  2         1333 11  6  17  2  2  1/2   -

Completion Rate     - 31 / 41  76%

Opposition Offloads - 6

Other NSW Premiership Matches

48-14 Gosf Wyong       b Newtown
22-20 Belm Canterbury  b Warriors
46-18 Cess Newcastle   b Wests-Tig
24-10 Bruc Illawarra   b Mt Prtchrd
18-8  Layb Wntwrthvll  b Blacktown

                W D  L B Diff PT
WYONG          14 1  1 1 +236 31
WARRIORS        9 3  4 1 +100 23
PENRITH         8 1  6 2 +109 21
CANTERBURY      8 2  6 1  +48 20
MT PRITCHARD    8 1  7 1   -8 19
NORTHS          7 -  8 2  -18 18
ILLAWARRA       8 -  8 1  -48 18
NEWCASTLE       6 1  8 2  -58 17
Wentworthville  7 -  9 1  +34 16
Blacktown       5 - 10 2  -72 14
Newtown         5 1 10 1 -109 13
Wests-Tigers    4 - 12 1 -218 10


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