Dragons spill the ball on halfway. game over.
SCRUM ROOSTERS - 15m shy of halfway
PENALTY ROOSTERS - 4th tackle, 30m from the Roosters line and Bird is pinged for a bad play the ball. Dragons challenge and fail.
Keary snaps a field goal with next to no pressure on him
Roosters upping the ante in defence, forcing the Dragons into making an error, resulting in the ball going into touch
JWH Drops the ball on the attack.
Dragons diffuse Keary's kick but cannot get back into the field of play. Drop out Dragons
Keary bombs for the right corner and everyone has an airswing as the ball goes dead. Moga finally gets benched, almost 10 minutes after injuring his shoulder
Brandon Smith makes a break, carrying a defender but is finally grassed, then he loses the ball.
PENALTY DRAGONS - Radley and Molo with what looked like a head clash. Radley been sent to the sin bin for a shoulder to the head.
Moga is struggling since scoring his last try, nursing what looks like a shoulder injury. Still playing though
Lomax from the sideline, for the lead, and he hooks it.
Try awarded to Moga, but the bunker will definietly check this. Dragons again fire the ball right again to Suli who bumps off a defender and then offloads to Moga who leaps for the corner and just gets the ball down remarkably
Set Restart Dragons, 25m from the Roosters line
Amone almost sneaks through the Roosters line
Dragons have lifted immensely
PENALTY DRAGONS - They find touch at halfway
Lomax from in front converts
Back-to-back tries and the Dragons are back in it. The Dragons gets the ball down the right side again, this time Suli gets the ball outside his defender and races downfield before firing a perfect ball inside to the unmarked Sloan who steps inside the cover defender and then scores under the posts.
Lomax fails to converts from the sideline
Sloan turns on freak mode. The ball comes out to him on the right side, with nothing on, he somehow gets outside his defender, explodes through a half gap then gets a glorious fliuck pass to Moga who then races down the sideline and dives over to score in the corner
PENALTY DRAGONS - They find touch 10m shy of halfway
PENALTY ROOSTERS - Keary hit almost a fraction of a millisecond after he kicked the ball.
Suaalii with his hardest conversion attempt today and he curls it through perfectly
Roosters shift the ball left, 5m from the Dragons line, eventually the ball gets to Manu who gets between the final two defenders and powers his way over for a try.
Crichton drops an easy pass at the line
Set Restart Roosters on halfway
Brandon Smith clutching his wrist after effecting a tackle, he looks to be okay though
Back underway
SCRUM DRAGONS - Keary performs a 1-on-1 strip, but Crichton fumbles the loose ball.
Keary made an odd decision to not kick on the last, then tried to run with defenders everywhere, offloads to Momirovski under pressure who quickly fires out a pass, but its forward.
Suli shapes to kick...keeps shaping...then gets tackled and the ball goes dead before it reaches his foot.
Crichton with a poor pass and Suli pounces on it. Dragons off the (c)hook. See what I did there? Clever huh?
Roosters get down into the Dragons half and then get a fresh set 10m from the Dragons line
Tedesco somehow gains possession from a great attacking kick by Hunt, and then runs 30 metres. Brilliant!
PENALTY DRAGONS - And momentum switches again.
Lomax converts
A Ben Hunt bomb is contested by players from both sides. A pack of 4 contest the ball, none of them get it. The ball bounces of Momirovski's back into the waiting hands of Jack Bird, who dives over to score.
Off to the bunker to look at a possible something for the Dragons
Set restart Dragons - A full set 10m from the Roosters line
PENALTY DRAGONS - Suaalii was allowed to run, got through the defensive line and then got the ball inside to Egan Butcher who scored. But the bunker has intervened and found that Brandon Smith passed the ball after his ball carrying arm hit the ground in the lead up. Dragons saved.
Suaalii adds another goal
Keary runs himself from first receiver, throws a dummy, gets past Mbye far too easily and scores a good solo try against atrocious line defence by the Dragons.
Set Restart Roosters 30m from the Dragons line
SCRUM ROOSTERS - Dragons with a forward pass, 20m from the Roosters line
PENALTY DRAGONS - They find touch quickly 5 metres inside the Roosters half.
Suaalii slots the penalty goal
PENALTY ROOSTERS - Dragons holding down. The momentum has definitely changed now.
Suaali adds the extras from in front
JWH with the brilliant try assist. He gets the ball at second receiver and drops a beautiful, sweet, perfect little short ball to Radley in motion, who hits a gap and scores near the posts. If he keeps that up, Tim Sheens will be giving him a call to get him to be the Tigers halfback
Dragons just helped them out by turning the ball over just shy of halfway
Roosters really struggling to get into the Dragons half.
Lomax adds the extras
The Dragons shift the ball left and Suli gets a poor pass to Moga, who not only reeled it in, but he had a frightfully narrow passage to the line and yet somehow he managed to stay in the field of the play and score the try, with plenty of defenders around.
PENALTY DRAGONS - Keary stops in the Defensive line. Pretty dopey to be honest.
SCRUM ROOSTERS - Dragons ball movement very slow. Paulo rushes way up and in and crunches Bird as he catches the ball and he drops it, 10m from the Roosters line.
Dragons kick to their left corner, but the Roosters get the ball via Paulo, who passes to Momirovski, who tries to offload as he's being pushed into touch, but his pass goes over the sideline
Challenge failed
Radley ruled to have dropped the ball. Roosters challenging the decision
Suaalii converts
Butcher gets a short ball from Radley and he runs through a huge gap, runs for 30 metres, draws the fullback, passes to Tedesco who races 30 metres to score under the posts.
Pretty simple, straight-forward and unimaginative sets from both sides to start the game
Dragons kick off
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Adam Gee
Touch Judges: Liam Kennedy, Wyatt Raymond
Video Referee: Ashley Klein
SYDNEY ROOSTERS (27)
Tries: James Tedesco, Victor Radley, Luke Keary, Joseph Manu
Field Goals: Luke Keary (1/1)
Conversions: Joseph Suaalii (4/4)
Penalty Goals: Joseph Suaalii (1/1)
ST GEORGE ILLAWARRA DRAGONS (26)
Tries: Tautau Moga (3), Jack Bird, Tyrell Sloan
Conversions: Zac Lomax (3/5)