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Matt Lodge is claiming a try.

Roosters penalty.

James Tamou loses the ball and concedes a penalty for dissent.

The Roosters allow the kick-off to bounce - play will resume with a line drop out.

Nat Butcher is the first Roosters forward to score 4 tries in a match since Charlie Banks 71 years ago!

Butcher opened the scoring running onto a Sam Walker grubber - he'll close it just the same!

INTERCEPT

Tigers knock-on - the Roosters will get another attacking chance.

Drew Hutchison is held up over the line.

Adam Doueihi drops the ball - make it stop!

The Roosters make an error on halfway.

Adam Doueihi makes a break over halfway.

The Tigers have lost the ball - this is a shameful performance.

Terrell May comes up with an error off the kick-off.

Starford To'a is carried over the sideline by two Roosters.

Connor Watson knocks on just as the Roosters looked set to score again.

Adam Doueihi puts up a bomb that gives Daniel Tupou little, to no, trouble.

Luke Keary is off; Oliver Gildart is on for his club debut.

CROWD: 14,939

Walker grubbers for himself; Laurie manages to ground the ball in-goal.

The Tigers try another short kick-off... Suaalii has it covered though.

Keary goes down a short side and sends Tupou over for a customary try.

The Tigers have lost the ball (again) and Manu makes a break.

Brent Naden catches the short kick-off.

Joseph Suaalii catches the ball, passes back to Terrell May and Butcher powers his way for a hat-trick.

If the Tigers could end the game right now it would've been 50 minutes too late...

Fonua Pole drops the ball.

Nat Butcher loses the ball on the first run from the kick-off.

Hutchison fended off Doueihi to score a rare four-pointer.

Daniel Tupou makes a kick return inside the Tigers 40 metre line.

Austin Dias catches a bomb close to his goal line.

Six again for the Roosters.

Joe Ofahengaue grabs Joseph Suaalii high - Roosters penalty.

Joseph Manu contests a bomb, but Daine Laurie manages to get possession.

We're back underway... the Tigers will need to pull off the biggest comeback in rugby league history to get out of this one.

Sam Walker is carried over the sideline by the Tigers defence.

Daniel Tupou catches the short drop out.

Fa'amanu Brown forces a line drop out.

Drew Hutchison makes an error inside the Roosters half.

Joseph Suaalii has somehow come up with the ball!

The Tigers come up with a poor attacking kick.

The Roosters are challenging the ruling - and lose.

Egan Butcher comes up with another error off the kick-off.

Ken Maumalo is off the field.

Daine Laurie passes the ball over the sideline.

The Roosters have made an error - this is the chance the Tigers have been praying for.

The Tigers only have themselves to blame for this scoreline - errors inside their own half have invited the Roosters to capitalise.

The Tigers have come up with another error inside the Roosters half.

Connor Watson tackles Daine Laurie with his first involvement of the half.

Keary was able to draw Adam Doueihi in and create the space for Crichton to stroll through.

The Tigers come up with a poor kick and the Roosters are already on the attack.

The Tigers have conceded both tries following mistakes in their own half.

*spins over the try line

Egan Butcher is on for Matthew Lodge.

Madden kicks out on the full; the Roosters will start a set inside the Tigers half.

Victor Radley has been placed on report for making contact around the legs of Joe Ofahengaue as the third man.

Jock Madden kicks over the sideline.

Daniel Tupou makes a nice kick-return to get out of his own in-goal.

Tigers penalty.

Luke Garner has failed his HIA and is out for the remainder of the game.

The Tigers make an error inside their own half.

Joseph Suaalii gets over the sideline, but the try is pulled up for a forward pass from Joey Manu.

Alex Seyfarth is trapped in-goal; the Roosters moved the ball a lot in that set, but didn't look fluent in their attack.

Luke Keary forces a line drop out with a well-place grubber.

Ken Maumalo leaps high to field a kick from Luke Keary.

NO TRY - Matt Lodge is ruled to have been held.

The try is being referred to the bunker.

Great work from Radley, Matt Lodge following up in support, and Manu to plant the ball over the line.

Victor Radley makes a break...

Luke Garner is off to complete a HIA; Alex Seyfarth gets an early introduction into the game.

Luke Garner is down after a heavy tackle from three Roosters.

Starford To'a makes a catch to defuse an attacking kick in his in-goal.

The Tigers complete their first set with a kick fielded by Joseph Suaalii inside the Roosters half.

We're underway!

James Tedesco is greeted by a guard of former greats as the Roosters head onto the field.

Joe Ofahengaue leads the Tigers out in his milestone match.

The Roosters have dominated the Tigers over the past decade with 15 wins from 16 meetings.

Joe Ofahengaue will make his 150th appearance in first grade; the former Brisbane forward joined the Tigers last season and played representative football with Queensland and Tonga.

The Roosters have won 22 out of 31 appearances at the Sydney Cricket Ground since taking up temporary residency at the venue in 2019.

The Sydney Roosters will play their final home game at the SCG ahead of the unveiling of the new Allianz Stadium in Round 25.

The Tigers will line up as per program, 1-17.

The Roosters have handed a club debut to English international Oliver Gildart, who made the move to Australia with the Tigers earlier this season. Drew Hutchison will start in the centres with Gildart coming onto the bench.

Welcome to League Unlimited’s coverage of Round 23 Saturday Night Football between the Sydney Roosters and the Wests Tigers from the Sydney Cricket Ground.