Full Time
80:00
7:30pm Sat September 1, 2018
Round 25 - Accor Stadium, Sydney Olympic Park / Wanngal - Crowd: 11543
80min

FULL TIME at ANZ Stadium and the Roosters have won the JJ Giltinan Shield with a big 44-10 win over the Parramatta Eels

76min

Parra try to go down the short side but the Roosters defence muscles up and sends French into touch

75min

Time out as Luke Keary has hurt a leg... Latrell gets a boot from Keary and one of the Eels players is off for a HIA

72min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Latrell Mitchell.

Latrell converts from right in front

Roosters lead Eels 10 - 44 Roosters
72min

Try: Roosters
Scored by James Tedesco. Kick to come.

Tedesco backs up a pass from Cronk after Jake Friend takes a dart from dummy half

Roosters lead Eels 10 - 42 Roosters
70min

If they weren't already - the flood gates are OPEN.... Tedesco backs up on a pass from Cronk after Friend went out from dummy half

67min

Conversion: Roosters
Attempted by Latrell Mitchell.

Latrell hits the ball nowhere near as well as he wanted

Roosters lead Eels 10 - 38 Roosters
66min

Try: Roosters
Scored by Latrell Mitchell. Kick to come.

Latrell has his third... the Eels defence has numbers there but again they misread the Roosters and they get ANOTHER four pointer and jump into provisional first place

Roosters lead Eels 10 - 38 Roosters
63min

Boyd Cordner gets a penalty takes the quick tap and Michael Jennings makes contact with Cordner and as Moses comes back, Jennings goes for 10

61min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Latrell Mitchell.

Latrell Mitchell corrects his radar after two misses from the same spot and converts his own try

Roosters lead Eels 10 - 34 Roosters
61min

Try: Roosters
Scored by Latrell Mitchell. Kick to come.

The Roosters get their third try within ten minutes now as Latrell Mitchell strolls over out wide where the Eels were two players short

Roosters lead Eels 10 - 32 Roosters
59min

The Roosters AGAIN expose the right hand defence of the Eels as Tedesco gets his whole body over the line but he grounds it in the field of play/

57min

Conversion: Roosters
Attempted by Latrell Mitchell.

Latrell's radar from the left hand side is off the mark as another conversion goes across the face of the posts

Roosters lead Eels 10 - 28 Roosters
56min

Try: Roosters
Scored by Latrell Mitchell. Kick to come.

Again the Roosters exploit the left and go down the short side and Latrell Mitchell is too strong and gets over the line

Roosters lead Eels 10 - 28 Roosters
56min

Conversion: Roosters
Attempted by Latrell Mitchell.

Latrell Mitchell puts the conversion across the face of the posts

Roosters lead Eels 10 - 24 Roosters
55min

Try: Roosters
Scored by Daniel Tupou. Kick to come.

The Roosters use the extra number and Daniel Tupou has spaces over on the right touchline

Roosters lead Eels 10 - 24 Roosters
53min

Mitch Moses takes out a Roosters support player with a shove in the back and Mitch Moses bookends the season with sin bins

51min

Conversion: Eels
Attempted by Mitchell Moses.

Mitch Moses misses the conversion from out wide with the attempt going across the face of the goals

Roosters lead Eels 10 - 20 Roosters
48min

Try: Eels
Scored by Bevan French. Kick to come.

Cooper Cronk throws a pass intended for Keary which is knocked back by Cordner and French scoops it up and races 80m to score

Roosters lead Eels 10 - 20 Roosters
47min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Latrell Mitchell.

The conversion from Latrell scrapes the left upright as it goes through the uprights

Roosters lead Eels 6 - 20 Roosters
45min

Try: Roosters
Scored by Blake Ferguson. Kick to come.

The Parra left defence miles in-field and Keary throws a lovely floated pass out to Ferguson who strolls over with a nice swan dive at the end

Roosters lead Eels 6 - 18 Roosters
41min

Blake Ferguson goes straight through poor defence and in the end finds Keary who find Tedesco who slips and loses it

40min

Second half underway at ANZ Stadium

40min

HALF TIME at ANZ Stadium and the Roosters head into the break with a 14-6 lead

40min

Conversion: Eels
Kicked by Mitchell Moses.

Mitch Moses converts from right in front

Roosters lead Eels 6 - 14 Roosters
38min

Try: Eels
Scored by Jarryd Hayne. Kick to come.

Nnneeaoowww - David Gower gets through the middle of some soft defence and finds Hayne who scores under the posts

Roosters lead Eels 4 - 14 Roosters
36min

Pretty mundane end to end stuff at the back end of this half

32min

Hayne loses the ball behind him and then gets a big hit from Radley as a result

30min

The Eels get the ball back off a loose Roosters offload but jeez the set its a bludger and put the ball to a forward on tackle 6

28min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Latrell Mitchell.

Latrell Mitchell from the sideline hits the ball straight through the uprights

Roosters lead Eels 0 - 14 Roosters
26min

Try: Roosters
Scored by Blake Ferguson. Kick to come.

Too easy - The Parramatta defence charges in and then some good catch pass play from the Eels finds Ferguson unmarked who strolls to the line

Roosters lead Eels 0 - 12 Roosters
23min

Mitchell Moses puts a bomb in the air but the sideline commentators are the ones who are in danger off it - Roosters start the set on halfway

21min

The Eels send the ball into touch and the Roosters will get a scrum 10m from their own line

19min

Eels go side to side with no direction in attack and the Roosters just stand there and get the ball back easily

17min

Another full set on the Roosters line for the Eels after an offload is knocked down by the Roosters

15min

SIX AGAIN - The Eels have a full set of six on the Roosters line after the Roosters can't handle a Norman kick

14min

Great tap back from Manu finds JWH who throws a no look pass out to Ferguson who drops the ball

11min

Penalty Goal: Roosters
Kicked by Latrell Mitchell.

Simple shot for Latrell as he puts the penalty goal through from right in front.

Roosters lead Eels 0 - 8 Roosters
10min

Another penalty goes the way of the Roosters and they will take the two from in front

8min

PENALTY ROOSTERS: Ferguson gets a catch in-goal then two plays later the Eels are penalised for a slow ruck

6min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Latrell Mitchell.

After a prolonged build-up where he was insistent on removing all the sideline advertising bolsters from the area, Mitchell moves in, strikes the ball... and nails it from touch!

Roosters lead Eels 0 - 6 Roosters
5min

Try: Roosters
Scored by Joseph Manu. Kick to come.

Plenty of metres in the set and numbers down the right from 30m out sees Manu score the opener.

Roosters lead Eels 0 - 4 Roosters
4min

A Norman grubber *just* trickles dead, well shepherded over the dead ball line by James Tedesco. 20m restart Roosters.

3min

Penalty Eels and they go deep on the attack. Good early test for the Tricolours defence.

2min

Fergo drops it early against the club he'll line up for next year. Eels scrum 40m from the Roosters line.

1min

We're underway at ANZ with the Eels getting first use. They're wearing their predominantly blue home jumper with white shorts, the Roosters in their mostly white kit with navy shorts.

Referees & scorers:

Referee: Jon Stone, Gavin Reynolds

Touch Judges: Clayton Sharpe, Nick Beashel

Video Referee: Steve Chiddy, Ben Galea

PARRAMATTA EELS (10)
Tries: Jarryd Hayne, Bevan French
Field Goals:
Conversions: Mitchell Moses (1/2)
Penalty Goals:

SYDNEY ROOSTERS (44)
Tries: Joseph Manu, Latrell Mitchell (3), Blake Ferguson (2), Daniel Tupou, James Tedesco
Field Goals:
Conversions: Latrell Mitchell (5/8)
Penalty Goals: Latrell Mitchell (1/1)