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FULL TIME at ANZ Stadium - The Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles are through to the NRL Grand Final with a 30-20 win over the South Sydney Rabbitohs

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 30-20

Souths cross for another TRY, however VIDEO REFEREE required, checking a possible knock on, onfield call is a TRY

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 30-14

Inside the final 90 seconds and Manly hold a 30-14 lead

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 30-14

NO TRY the ruling, Daly Cherry-Evans dropped the ball before his foot touched the ball

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 30-14

VIDEO REFEREE: Possible Jamie Lyon try, Checking a knock on, Onfield call is a TRY

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 30-14

PENALTY MANLY: Souths knock on and then compound the error with a penalty

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 30-14

Pictures just shown show Richie Fa'aoso being taken out of the ANZ Stadium players area on an ambulance bed in a neck brace in care of Ambulance staff

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 30-14

Adam Reynolds has the ball on the kicking tee to take the shot, but the Video Referees say NO TRY, 20m restart for Manly

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 30-14

VIDEO REFEREE: Checking a possible George Burgess TRY, checking Grounding, Onfield call from Ben Cummins is TRY

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 30-14

Souths try the short kickoff and get the ball back after David Williams loses the ball trying to clean it up

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 30-14

Adam Reynolds goes high but Brett Stewart shows his quality and leaps brilliantly and take it

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 24-14

Manly are trying to score yet another try but the bat on from Brett Stewart goes into touch

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 24-14

Jamie Lyon puts an average kick in but force a repeat set tackling Dylan Walker ingoal

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 24-14

Scrum feed coming up for the Sea Eagles, after a last tackle pass is knocked over the sideline by Souths

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 24-14

South Sydney try some desperation play with some hopeful long passes but it ends up going into touch

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 24-14

VIDEO REFEREE: Checking a possible David Williams MIRACLE try, checking Obstruction and Grounding - Ben Cummins says TRY onfield

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 18-14

VIDEO REFEREE: Possible Jamie Lyon TRY, Checking grounding, Onfield Gerard Sutton says TRY

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-12

Scrum coming up for Manly, after Dylan Farrell takes an air swing at the bomb from Adam Reynolds and the ball goes into touch

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-12

Souths force the Sea Eagles over the sideline to get the scrum close to halfway

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-12

NO TRY, knock on the ruling from the Video Refs

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-12

VIDEO REFEREE: Possible Souths TRY, checking obstruction and grounding - onfield decision is NO TRY

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-12

Souths on the attack just metres out from the line

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-12

Repeat set coming up for the Rabbitohs, after going nowhere on the last tackle, a good John Sutton kick helps him force the dropout

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-12

Repeat Set coming up for Manly as Greg Inglis is forced to push the ball dead

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-6

South Sydney back on the field with kickoff iminent

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-6

Manly Sea Eagles back out on the field for the second half

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-6

Half Time at ANZ Stadium - the South Sydney Rabbitohs lead 14-6 over the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-6

Another penalty to the Rabbitohs, this time for hand on the ball

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-6

Onslaught defended, and on the back of it Manly concede their third penalty of the match

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-6

SIX More tackles for Manly after Souths can't clean up effectively

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-6

PENALTY MANLY - Souths penalised for being too slow away from the tackle

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-6

Daly Cherry-Evans slows the game down by finding touch

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-6

Beautiful running take from Foran gets upfield before Inglis stops him

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-6

Bit of a momentum change, Manly starting to find some attacking consistency, repeat set coming up

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-6

Kickoff bounces around the place, closest man it gets to is Referee Gerard Sutton before cleaned up by Manly

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-6

VIDEO REFEREE: Checking a possible Brett Stewart try, Checking the grounding, Onfield decision is TRY

South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-0

Adam Reynolds puts the ball to the air and is tackled late but is deemed legal by the referees

South Sydney Rabbitohs 8-0

PENALTY SOUTHS: Manly players ruled to have taken out a Souths chaser - Penalty Count 2-0 to Souths

South Sydney Rabbitohs 2-0

Glenn Stewart ON REPORT, for a high tackle, Souths to take the 2 points

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First set completed, last tackle kick finds Greg Inglis on the full

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Play Underway at ANZ Stadium - Manly with first possession

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South Sydney now out on the field

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Manly Sea Eagles making their way out on to ANZ Stadium

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Welcome LIVE to ANZ Stadium as we bring you coverage from the Preliminary Final between the South Sydney Rabbitohs and Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. The Rabbitohs won the toss and will kick off, the winner is through to the 2013 NRL Grand Final on October 6.

TEAM NEWS first in for the Rabbitohs, sees them 1-17 with Ben Lowe, Luke Keary and Matt King dropped off the bench ahead of kick off at 7:58pm this evening.

Meanwhile for Manly, Brett Stewart has been cleared to play tonight and Manly are unchanged with 1-17 taking the field. Peta Hiku, James Hasson and David Gower no required on the bench.

Rabbitohs: 1. Greg Inglis 2. Nathan Merritt 3. Bryson Goodwin 4. Dylan Walker 5. Dylan Farrell 6. John Sutton 7. Adam Reynolds 8. Dave Tyrrell 9. Issac Luke 10. Luke Burgess 11. Sam Burgess 12. Ben Te’o 13. Jeff Lima
Interchange: 14. Jason Clark 15. Roy Asotasi 16. Chris McQueen 17. George Burgess

Sea Eagles: 1. Brett Stewart 2. Jorge Taufua 3. Jamie Lyon (c) 4. Steve Matai 5. David Williams 6. Kieran Foran 7. Daly Cherry-Evans 8. Brenton Lawrence 9. Matt Ballin 10. Brent Kite 11. Anthony Watmough 12. Justin Horo 13. Glenn Stewart
Interchange: 14. Richie Fa’aoso 15. Jamie Buhrer 16. Tom Symonds 17. George Rose

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