Next play with seconds left, Titans quickly spread the ball right to Fifita who almost scores, but gets a flick pass out the back, but Thompson over ran it by a metre and the pass went behind him and into touch, with the tryline wide open and only a metre in front of him. Full time.
Fermor makes a break and runs down the left wing, links with Sami who gets tackled.
Strip by the Titans, Roosters get the ball back on halfway. 6 again.
Walker from in front kicks the field goal.
What an excitingly underwhelming finish to the game.
SCRUM ROOSTERS - Kelly with a dropped ball. These sides are playing like bottom 8 sides at the moment.
Roosters starting to show a little bit of panic, blow another chance with a poor option on the last tackle.
Peachey very nearly kicks a field goal, just misses to the right
Liu knocks on 2 tackles later, 10m from the Titans line.
Walker attempts a field goal bnut it's charged down. Roosters get the ball back and a fresh set
SCRUM ROOSTERS - Fifita with a stupid pressure pass to Thompson who had no chance of catching it. He knocks it on.
Fogarty converts to level the scores.
Ikuvalu taking the the first hit up off his own line and he drops an easy pass, which Wallace cleans up and then dives over the line to score.
SCRUM TITANS - Radley forward pass to Tedesco who knocks on.
Keighran from wide on the right side nails the conversion.
The Roosters showing off some great hands. Tedesco held in a tackled offloads to Ikuvalu who quickly fires a no long ball to Morris outside him, who steps inside the cover defence to score a great try.
Liu with a chip and chase 10m from the Titans line forces Campbell to take it dead. Titans drop out.
Fogarty converts the try
Kelly taking a hit up after receiving an offload and the Roosters defence does not commit to a strong tackle. He brushes off Crichton and Liu and then runs 25 metres to score under the posts.
PENALTY TITANS - Lam steps and breaks the line, but the referee calls his 349857234857982345789024th penalty for obstruction.
SET RESTART ROOSTERS
SCRUM ROOSTERS - Fifita milking harder than a dairy.
PENALTY TITANS - They find touch on halfway
Tedesco gets a flick pass while tackled, which bounces into the waiting arms of Ikuvalu who dives over to score. The bunker though calls shepherd by Tedesco.
Fogarty converts from in front.
Fogarty kicks high towards the posts where Herbert knocks it backwards where it bounces nicely for Tino Fa'asuamaleaui who regathers and scores under the posts
Keighran from the left sideline curls it through
Tedesco with a brilliant tap on along to Tupou who scores in the corner. Brilliant
SCRUM ROOSTERS - second tackle of the second half and Tino loses the ball. Titans challenge and fail.
back underway
Fogarty from the left sideline just misses the extras
Peachey on the left side with a wobbly grubber that evades Ikuvalu and sits up in the Roosters in goal for Fermor to dive on and plant for a try,
STAT: Tedesco score 200 points for the Wests Tigers in 90 games and currently has 198 points for the Sydney Roosters in his 89th game for the club.
SCRUM TITANS - Egan Butcher with a knock on near halfway
Kelly coming off with a bloodied towel.
PENALTY TITANS - Kelly drops the ball in a strong tackle. His face hit Verrills square on the shoulder
Keighran from right in front adds the extras
Titans shift the ball right to Fifita as the trailing runner, who runs behind Herbert briefly, but then gets around Keighran before crashing over the line to score. The try is disallowed for obstruction.
From the penalty, Radley steps at the line to slip through before getting an offload away to Tedesco who scores under the posts.
PENALTY ROOSTERS - Proctor with a high tackle.
Roosters on the back foot big time. Titans force a drop out.
Wallace produces another impression, this time of Todd Byrne, as he takes an intercept and lumbers upfield before being tackled.. Brilliant stuff. 4 stars.
SCRUM ROOSTERS - Wallace produces his Paul Gallen impression by being at first receiver, inside the opposition's 20m and he drops the ball early in the set. Very good performance, 4.5 stars.
SET RESTART TITANS - 1om from the Roosters line
SCRUM TITANS - Ikuvalu drops the ball on the second tackle after the restart.
Keighran from the right sideline fails to convert
Roosters send the ball right to Tedesco who holds the ball up, drawing the defender in and then passing to Morris who gets it quickly along to Ikuvalu who dives over in the corner.
PENALTY ROOSTERS - Play stopped. Victor is cranky. Wallace kinda trips Tedesco who is looking at a kicked ball in the air and chasing it. Victor and Teddy get a bit shirty.
PENALTY ROOSTERS - Morris takes a tough catch in his own ingoal and is tackled mid-air.
Ikuvalu has a shoe injury, Trainer is taping them up for him.
SCRUM TITANS - Radley drops a tough ball.
Tino put up a huge bomb.
SCRUM TITANS - Radley with a forward pass to JWH. The call was so late, it must've been received via Australia Post
SCRUM ROOSTERS - Titans on the attack but Rein's pass from dummy half goes forward.
Fogarty adds a penalty goal.
PENALTY TITANS - Josh Morris penalised for Escorting. Roosters challenge. They fail.
Keighran kicks a penalty goal
Peachey with the professional foul on Radley gets binned for ten minutes.
Tedesco grubbers and Radley tries to ragather in the Titans ingoal, but he is tackled from behind by Peachey without the ball. Bunker have ruled out a penalty try.
Turnover bu Sitili Tupouniua as he drops an offload from Lam, which was a bit low.
Roosters working hard through the middle.
SET RESTART TITANS
Roosters end their set by kicking the ball dead and giving the Titans a 7 tackle set
Titans kick off
Its been 11 years and 1 day since the Titans won their only ever finals game - a 28-16 win over the Warriors in 2010
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Adam Gee
Touch Judges: Liam Kennedy, Chris Butler
Video Referee: Steve Chiddy
SYDNEY ROOSTERS (25)
Tries: Matt Ikuvalu, James Tedesco, Daniel Tupou, Josh Morris
Field Goals: Sam Walker (1/2)
Conversions: Adam Keighran (3/4)
Penalty Goals: Adam Keighran (1/1)
GOLD COAST TITANS (24)
Tries: Beau Fermor, Tino Fa'asuamaleaui, Brian Kelly, Jarrod Wallace
Field Goals: Tyrone Peachey (0/1)
Conversions: Jamal Fogarty (3/4)
Penalty Goals: Jamal Fogarty (1/1)