Fulltime at Brookvale and the Roosters have beaten Manly 16-4.
Sydney Roosters 16-4
TRY SYDNEY ROOSTERS
Scored by Jake Friend. Conversion attempt by James Maloney successful.
Jake Friend scores a scrappy try to seal the win for the Roosters tonight! Kenny-Dowall chipped into the in-goal but the ball rebounded off Horo into Taufua who couldn't handle it and Friend dives on the loose ball.
Sydney Roosters 16-4
VIDEO REFEREE: Possible Roosters try.
Sydney Roosters 10-4
PENALTY Roosters. SBW has the ball stripped on a two-man tackle.
Sydney Roosters 10-4
SUCCESSFUL PENALTY GOAL SYDNEY ROOSTERS
Penalty goal attempt by James Maloney successful.
Maloney almost ensures the Roosters can't lose in normal time with a successful penalty goal.
Sydney Roosters 10-4
PENALTY Roosters. Lawrence offside after Kenny-Dowall's kick rebounds.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
PENALTY Roosters. Manly throw Tupou back into the in-goal after the tackle has been completed.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
Maloney dives on the loose ball from Cherry-Evans' pass out the back before the five-eighth goes to get up and loses the ball.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
Kenny-Dowall knocks Foran's pass on and Manly will feed a scrum.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
SENT OFF
Jared Waerea-Hargreaves is sent off the field.
Waerea Hargreaves has been sent from the field for a high shot on George Rose.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
PENALTY Manly. Waerea-Hargraves has collected Rose with a swinging arm.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
Stewart trickles a grubber into the in-goal before Tupou tries his best to get out but is thrown back in under the weight of five Manly players.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
A quality offload from SBW gets the Roosters going down the right side, but the pass to Kenny-Dowall is knocked on.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
No Try. Kenny-Dowall knocks Pearce's bomb on in the in-goal. Manly 20m restart.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
Quick hands down the blind side from Matai but his pass is forward. Roosters scrum on halfway.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
Pearce kicks over the top but the ball goes into touch.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
Cherry-Evans fails to find touch and the Roosters have possession on halfway.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
PENALTY Manly. High tackle from Friend on Kite.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
Watmough charges out of the line and forces the mistake from Maloney.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
Kennedy gets away with losing possession because the referees called held too quick.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
PENALTY Roosters. Manly offside.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
Maloney attempts a 40/20 and Hiku tiptoes down the sideline to grab possession.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
Great defence from the inside forces the ball out of Watmough's grasp. Roosters with possession.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
SBW knocks on in the play-the-ball. Manly scrum.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
PENALTY Roosters. Williams offside.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
No Try. Williams ruled offside after the Lyon bat-back.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
VIDEO REFEREE: Possible Manly try.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
PENALTY Manly. Roosters high tackle on Lyon.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
PENALTY Manly. Foran takes the line on and is taken high by Pearce.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
TRY MANLY-WARRINGAH SEA EAGLES
Scored by Steve Matai. Conversion attempt by Jamie Lyon unsuccessful.
Matai scores for the Eagles! Cherry-Evans cross-field chip bomb was perfectly placed and Matai got himself in between Tuivasa-Sheck and Kenny-Dowall before wrestling his way to ground to score the try. Lyon misses from just beside the posts.
Sydney Roosters 8-4
PENALTY Manly. Roosters offside.
Sydney Roosters 8-0
Good scramble from Williams bundles Tupou into touch after the Roosters created an overlap.
Sydney Roosters 8-0
Lyon knocks on.
Sydney Roosters 8-0
Mortimer's pass from dummy half is knocked on. Early chance for the home side here.
Sydney Roosters 8-0
Second half underway. Manly with first use of the ball.
Sydney Roosters 8-0
Halftime at Brookvale and the Roosters lead Manly 8-0.
Sydney Roosters 8-0
Jennings is nearly thrown into touch before he threw the ball back infield. Roosters still with possession.
Sydney Roosters 8-0
Cherry-Evans goes short to Stewart who puts the ball down.
Sydney Roosters 8-0
O'Donnell puts the ball down working the ball out of trouble. Manly to feed a scrum 30m from the Roosters line.
Sydney Roosters 8-0
Cherry-Evans drills the kick into touch a metre from the line. Roosters to feed a scrum.
Sydney Roosters 8-0
Guerra drops the ball attempting to throw an unlikely offload out the back. Eagles defence holds.
Sydney Roosters 8-0
Hiku drops Pearce's bomb and the Roosters go on the attack.
Sydney Roosters 8-0
SUCCESSFUL PENALTY GOAL SYDNEY ROOSTERS
Penalty goal attempt by James Maloney successful.
Maloney extends the visitors lead out past a converted try.
Sydney Roosters 8-0
PENALTY Roosters. High tackle on Guerra.
Sydney Roosters 6-0
PENALTY Roosters. Rose with the shoulder charge on Waerea-Hargraves.
Sydney Roosters 6-0
Watmough throws a forced pass out the back which is knocked on. Roosters defence holds firm and they'll feed a scrum on their 30m line.
Sydney Roosters 6-0
Stewart kicks over the top for Williams who looked certain to score before Tupou punched the ball out of his hands and over the dead-ball line. Roosters dropout.
Sydney Roosters 6-0
Rose throws the pass out the back which is intercepted by Kenny-Dowall who races 40m upfield before losing possession!
Sydney Roosters 6-0
PENALTY Eagles. Waerea-Hargraves with a high tackle.
Sydney Roosters 6-0
PENALTY Eagles. Roosters offside.
Sydney Roosters 6-0
Matai grubbers on the last tackle and Tuivasa-Sheck comes up with a little knock-on. Repeat set for Manly with a 10m scrum.
Sydney Roosters 6-0
Cherry-Evans kicks well into space on tackle 4. Roosters tackle 2 10m from their own line.
Sydney Roosters 6-0
Some good goal-line defence from the Eagles repels the Roosters with Matai's tackle under Kenny-Dowall's ribs forcing the ball to be knocked on.
Sydney Roosters 6-0
Matai knocks on from the scrum. Roosters to feed a scrum 20m from the Eagles line.
Sydney Roosters 6-0
Pearce this time goes straight through the Manly defence ducking in and out of tackles before his pass to Cordner is knocked on.
Sydney Roosters 6-0
Lawrence slices through the Roosters defence before finding Taufua who threw an unnecessary pass to Matai who knocks on.
Sydney Roosters 6-0
Hiku again comes up with a good catch under pressure on his own line.
Sydney Roosters 6-0
Cherry-Evans tries to grubber into the in-goal but it's too heavy. Roosters 20m restart.
Sydney Roosters 6-0
PENALTY Manly. Jennings pushes Hiku to ground unnecessarily.
Sydney Roosters 6-0
TRY SYDNEY ROOSTERS
Scored by Michael Jennings. Conversion attempt by James Maloney successful.
Jennings opens the scoring tonight! Manly were pressing the Roosters line and Cherry-Evans' cutout pass missed the mark and Williams left the ball behind before the Roosters centre scooped it up and raced 90m to score out wide. Maloney fades the conversion from left to right straight between the posts.
Sydney Roosters 6-0
PENALTY Manly. Pearce with a hand on the ball.
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Tuivasa-Sheck takes Foran cross-field kick well.
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Friend kicks out of dummy half but it goes straight down the middle of the field. Manly go over halfway on tackle 3.
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Pearce takes on the defence and loses possession. Manly work the ball upfield.
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PENALTY Roosters. Hands on the ball.
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PENALTY Roosters. Tuivasa-Sheck sliced through the Manly defence from a standing start and is pulled down just short. Lawrence stayed on him for too long.
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Hiku brilliantly takes Maloney's kick despite heavy pressure.
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Good opening set from the Roosters. Hiku is tackled on his own 30.
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Cherry-Evans gets us underway!
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Anthony Minichiello leads the Roosters onto Brookvale and they head to the southern end where they will receive first use of the ball. They'll run from right to left on your computer screen.
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Full-time in the Holden Cup and Manly have hung on in an entertaining, see-sawing game of footy 28-24.
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TEAM CHANGES: Two changes for the Sea Eagles with Brett Stewart ruled out earlier in the week for 4-6 weeks due to back troubles. Tom Symonds has also been ruled out. Peta Hiku and David Gower come into coach Geoff Toovey's 17-man squad. The Roosters are unchanged. Kick-off a little after 7pm.
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The penultimate match of Round 9 comes to you live from Brookvale Oval tonight where we have a blockbuster in store. It's team 3 up against team 4 when the Roosters and the Eagles do battle. It's a rather chilly evening on the northern beaches with the forecast of a late shower. Hopefully the rain stays away. Team news will be brought to you soon.
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Sea Eagles: 19. Peta Hiku 2. Jorge Taufua 3. Jamie Lyon 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. James Hasson 16. Jamie Buhrer 17. George Rose 21. David Gower
Roosters: 1. Anthony Minichiello 2. Daniel Tupou 3. Michael Jennings 4. Shaun Kenny-Dowall 5. Roger Tuivasa-Sheck 6. James Maloney 7. Mitchell Pearce 8. Jared Waerea-Hargreaves 9. Jake Friend 10. Martin Kennedy 11. Mitchell Aubusson 12. Sonny Bill Williams 13. Boyd Cordner
Interchange: 14. Daniel Mortimer 15. Frank-Paul Nuuausala 16. Aiden Guerra 17. Luke O’Donnell
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Referees & scorers:
Referee: Matt Cecchin, Henry Perenara
Touch Judges: Paul Holland, Jason Walsh
Video Referee: Ashley Klein, Justin Morgan
MANLY-WARRINGAH SEA EAGLES (4)
Tries: Steve Matai
Field Goals:
Conversions: Jamie Lyon (0/1)
Penalty Goals:
SYDNEY ROOSTERS (16)
Tries: Michael Jennings, Jake Friend
Field Goals:
Conversions: James Maloney (2/2)
Penalty Goals: James Maloney (2/2)