Fulltime at ANZ Stadium and the Bulldogs have returned to the winner's circle with a 24-14 victory.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 24-14
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Scored by Lachlan Maranta. Conversion attempt by Corey Parker successful.
Maranta scores a consolation try with some quality quick hands despite a disagreement in back play. With half the players exchanging pleasantries, play was allowed to continue. Parker adds the extras from out wide.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 24-14
Ennis charges Wallace's kick down before knocking on. Broncos scrum.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 24-8
Kasiano squashes Norman after Hodkinson again comes up with a good kick to the corner.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 24-8
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Scored by Frank Pritchard. Conversion attempt by Trent Hodkinson successful.
Pritchard gets a well-deserved try! Hodkinson grubbered in behind the defence before Hunt fumbled the ball and Pritchard raked the ball out of his possession perhaps in a forward motion but the referees in the box ruled otherwise. Hodkinson again adds the extras.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 24-8
VIDEO REFEREE: Possible Bulldogs try.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-8
Hodges knocks the ball on trying to play it quickly. Bulldogs scrum.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-8
PENALTY Bulldogs. Broncos with a two-man strip.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-8
In all the scrappiness of the play from the Broncos, Hoffman puts his foot on the sideline. Bulldogs scrum.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-8
The boys get a bit upset and exchange pleasantries as the rain continues to fall.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-8
PENALTY Broncos. Bulldogs offside.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-8
PENALTY Broncos. Reynolds interferes with the player playing the ball.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-8
Hunt kicks towards his winger but Brown gets his hand to the ball and knocks it over the sideline. Broncos 10m scrum.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-8
PENALTY Broncos. Pritchard ruled to have taken Wallace high.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-8
The rain starts to fall again here at ANZ Stadium.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-8
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Scored by Jordan Kahu. Conversion attempt by Corey Parker unsuccessful.
Kahu comes up with an amazing play by outleaping Perrett before planting the ball in the corner after a great Corey Norman kick. Parker again misses from out wide.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-8
VIDEO REFEREE: Possible Broncos try.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-4
Hodges kicks on the 3rd tackle and Barba picks up the ball before he's thrown into the in-goal. Bulldogs dropout.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-4
PENALTY Broncos. Eastwood ruled to have twisted the legs unnecessarily.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-4
Bulldogs knock on on the last. Changeover 5m from the Broncos line.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-4
Ennis forces a repeat set with a clever kick. Broncos dropout.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-4
PENALTY Bulldogs. Broncos offside.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-4
Controlled set by the Dogs after scoring points. Hodkinson finds touch 15m from the Broncos line.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-4
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Scored by Aiden Tolman. Conversion attempt by Trent Hodkinson successful.
Tolman crashes over next to the posts and extends the lead even further for the home side. Ennis engaged the markers before delivering a perfect pass onto the front-rowers chest. Hodkinson adds the extras from alongside the posts.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 18-4
PENALTY Bulldogs. Granville with a leg pull.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 12-4
Hodges loses the ball in a two-man tackle.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 12-4
Hunt kicks long and the ball bounces dead. 20m restart.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 12-4
Double knock-on. Brisbane play-the-ball.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 12-4
Wallace kicks across field but Brown comes up with a good catch. 20m restart.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 12-4
PENALTY Broncos. Bulldogs slowing the play-the-ball down. Broncos on the attack.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 12-4
Reynolds knocks the ball on on the last before Gillett and Granville head back up field for the Broncos!
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 12-4
Barba races 50m up field and finds Morris. Bulldogs on the attack.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 12-4
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Scored by Sam Kasiano. Conversion attempt by Trent Hodkinson successful.
Kasiano charges over from close range. Reynolds ran the ball on the last, found his big front rower who was never going to be stopped by McCullough. Hodkinson adds the extras from beside the posts to extend the lead past a converted try.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 12-4
Norman puts the ball down on halfway after thinking about what he was going to do with the footy before he had it.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-4
Error-free footy to start the second half by both teams.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-4
Second stanza underway. Broncos with first touch of the footy.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-4
Halftime at ANZ. Bulldogs 6 lead Broncos 4.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-4
Some enterprising play from the Broncos shows quick hands before Hoffman is pulled down after getting halfway into the back play.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-4
Razzle dazzle from the Bulldogs but Morris throws the pass back to Barba who is taken ball and all.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-4
PENALTY Broncos. Kasiano offside.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-4
Peter Wallace dives on a speculator pass from Finucane.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-4
Scrappy play from Canterbury but luckily for Reynolds the pass was knocked on. Bulldogs scrum.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-4
PENALTY Bulldogs. Hodges ruled to have taken Brown out in chasing the ball.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-4
Wallace is hit in a great tackle on the first tackle and drops the ball. Bulldogs on the attack.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-4
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Scored by Josh Hoffman. Conversion attempt by Corey Parker unsuccessful.
Hoffman scores for the Broncos in the left corner. Second man play put Norman on the outside of his man before he delivered the pass to Hoffman. Barba and Ennis did their best to hold him up but he eventually forced the ball on his second attempt. Parker can't add the extras from out wide.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-4
Maranta bats Wallace's kick back into the arms of Hodges who weights a perfect kick into the in-goal. Barba is tackled by Wallace. Bulldogs dropout.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
Reynolds attempts to throw a miracle ball but propels it forward. Broncos scrum.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
Hodkinson trickles the ball into the in-goal before Morris throws Maranta over the dead-ball line. Broncos dropout.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
Ennis has the ball knocked out by Wallace but he dives on the loose ball. Six again.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
Parker loses the ball in a good low tackle by Ennis.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
PENALTY Broncos. Finucane laying on the tackled player for too long.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
No try. Barba saves another one as Hoffman puts his pink boots on the sideline just before planting the ball in the corner.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
VIDEO REFEREE: Possible Broncos try.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
The ball is shifted to the 'Dogs right side before Lafai spills the ball.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
PENALTY Bulldogs. Two man strip.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
PENALTY Bulldogs. With the tackle completed the defence attempts to put him over the sideline.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
PENALTY Bulldogs. With the tackle completed the defence attempts to put him over the sideline.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
Hodges tries to kick into the in-goal but Pritchard deflects the ball off his legs and dives on it.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
PENALTY Broncos. Wallace ruled to have been tackled high despite replays suggesting otherwise.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
Reynolds tries to force a repeat set but his kick goes dead. Broncos 20m restart.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
Pritchard goes to bang the ball down but the Broncos defence holds and forces the ball loose.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
Kahu knocks on for the Broncos. Bulldogs scrum 30m from the Broncos line.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
Norman lets Hodkinson's bomb bounce but then recovers.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
Hodges scoops up the loose ball off another cross-field kick by Hodkinson.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
PENALTY Bulldogs. Broncos offside.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
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Scored by Ben Barba. Conversion attempt by Trent Hodkinson successful.
Barba opens the scoring for the Bulldogs! Nothing looked like it was happening so the fullback put a kick in which rebounded off Hodges back into his arms before he muscled his way into the in-goal. Hodkinson adds the extras from beside the posts.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6-0
Maranta takes Barba's cross-field kick well despite pressure from Brown.
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Barba takes Wallace's kick into the in-goal on the full. 20m restart.
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Trysaving tackle from Barba on Maranta.
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PENALTY Broncos. Eastwood caught offside.
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Reynolds' bomb is terrible and Norman takes it in the in-goal. 20m restart.
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Hodkinson kicks towards Maranta before the ball goes backwards and Pritchard then knocks on.
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Hunt goes to the air and Gillett knocks the ball on after the Dogs players stood and watched the ball come down. Changeover.
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Mistake free from the Dogs and Hodkinson's kick trickles dead. Broncos 20m restart.
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We're underway!
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Both sides now observe a moment's silence following the death of Des Hasler's brother Daniel who passed away during the week.
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Brisbane head out onto ANZ Stadium and take up their position at the northern end where they will kick off. Michael Ennis takes the home side out where they are greeted by a reasonable sized crowd despite the weather.
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Fulltime in the Holden Cup and the Bulldogs have run out 40-20 victors over the Broncos.
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Just the one TEAM CHANGE for the Canterbury side with Tony Williams ruled out after suffering an ankle injury against the Knights last week. He will be replaced in the run-on side by Josh Jackson with Tim Browne onto the Bench in jersey #21.
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TEAM CHANGES just to hand and the Broncos will be 1-17 despite centre Justin Hodges doing minimal contact work with the team throughout the week.
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In the Holden Cup, the 'Dogs lead 30-14 with about half an hour to play. When we have team news you hear it here first. Kick-off scheduled for a little after 7.35pm.
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Friday Night Football with LeagueUnlimited comes to you live from a rather chilly and at times wet ANZ Stadium in Sydney for tonight's Round 11 encounter between Canterbury and Brisbane. The home side will look to bounce back from last week's 44-8 hammering at the hands of the Knights while the Broncos will look to replicate their 32-6 victory over the Titans seven nights ago.
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Bulldogs: 1. Ben Barba 2. Mitch Brown 3. Timoteo Lafai 4. Josh Morris 5. Sam Perrett 6. Josh Reynolds 7. Trent Hodkinson 8. Aiden Tolman 9. Michael Ennis (c) 10. Sam Kasiano 15. Josh Jackson 12. Frank Pritchard 13. Greg Eastwood
Interchange: 14. Dene Halatau 16. James Graham 17. Dale Finucane 21. Tim Browne
Broncos: 1. Corey Norman 2. Josh Hoffman 3. Jordan Kahu 4. Justin Hodges 5. Lachlan Maranta 6. Ben Hunt 7. Peter Wallace 8. Josh McGuire 9. Andrew McCullough 10. Sam Thaiday (c) 11. Alex Glenn 12. Matt Gillett 13. Corey Parker
Interchange: 14. Jake Granville 15. Scott Anderson 16. David Hala 17. Jarrod Wallace
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Referees & scorers:
Referee: Jared Maxwell, Henry Perenara
Touch Judges: Russell Turner, Jeff Younis
Video Referee: Luke Phillips
CANTERBURY-BANKSTOWN BULLDOGS (24)
Tries: Ben Barba, Sam Kasiano, Aiden Tolman, Frank Pritchard
Field Goals:
Conversions: Trent Hodkinson (4/4)
Penalty Goals:
BRISBANE BRONCOS (14)
Tries: Josh Hoffman, Jordan Kahu, Lachlan Maranta
Field Goals:
Conversions: Corey Parker (1/3)
Penalty Goals: