Full Time
80:00
4:00pm Tue April 25, 2023
Round 8 - Allianz Stadium, Moore Park / Gadigal - Crowd: 40191
79min

Dragons spill the ball on halfway. game over.

76min

SCRUM ROOSTERS - 15m shy of halfway

75min

PENALTY ROOSTERS - 4th tackle, 30m from the Roosters line and Bird is pinged for a bad play the ball. Dragons challenge and fail.

73min

Field Goal: Roosters
Kicked by Luke Keary.

Keary snaps a field goal with next to no pressure on him

Roosters lead Roosters 27 - 26 Dragons
72min

Roosters upping the ante in defence, forcing the Dragons into making an error, resulting in the ball going into touch

71min

JWH Drops the ball on the attack.

70min

Dragons diffuse Keary's kick but cannot get back into the field of play. Drop out Dragons

67min

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

65min

Brandon Smith makes a break, carrying a defender but is finally grassed, then he loses the ball.

63min

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.

62min

Moga is struggling since scoring his last try, nursing what looks like a shoulder injury. Still playing though

60min

Conversion: Dragons
Attempted by Zac Lomax.

Lomax from the sideline, for the lead, and he hooks it.

Tied up at Roosters 26 - 26 Dragons
58min

Try: Dragons
Scored by Tautau Moga. Kick to come.

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

Tied up at Roosters 26 - 26 Dragons
57min

Set Restart Dragons, 25m from the Roosters line

57min

Amone almost sneaks through the Roosters line

56min

Dragons have lifted immensely

54min

PENALTY DRAGONS - They find touch at halfway

53min

Conversion: Dragons
Kicked by Zac Lomax.

Lomax from in front converts

Roosters lead Roosters 26 - 22 Dragons
53min

Try: Dragons
Scored by Tyrell Sloan. Kick to come.

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.

Roosters lead Roosters 26 - 20 Dragons
53min

Conversion: Dragons
Attempted by Zac Lomax.

Lomax fails to converts from the sideline

Roosters lead Roosters 26 - 16 Dragons
51min

Try: Dragons
Scored by Tautau Moga. Kick to come.

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

Roosters lead Roosters 26 - 16 Dragons
50min

PENALTY DRAGONS - They find touch 10m shy of halfway

48min

PENALTY ROOSTERS - Keary hit almost a fraction of a millisecond after he kicked the ball.

47min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Joseph Suaalii.

Suaalii with his hardest conversion attempt today and he curls it through perfectly

Roosters lead Roosters 26 - 12 Dragons
45min

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

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.

Roosters lead Roosters 24 - 12 Dragons
43min

Crichton drops an easy pass at the line

43min

Set Restart Roosters on halfway

41min

Brandon Smith clutching his wrist after effecting a tackle, he looks to be okay though

40min

Back underway

40min

SCRUM DRAGONS - Keary performs a 1-on-1 strip, but Crichton fumbles the loose ball.

39min

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.

38min

Suli shapes to kick...keeps shaping...then gets tackled and the ball goes dead before it reaches his foot.

37min

Crichton with a poor pass and Suli pounces on it. Dragons off the (c)hook. See what I did there? Clever huh?

37min

Roosters get down into the Dragons half and then get a fresh set 10m from the Dragons line

36min

Tedesco somehow gains possession from a great attacking kick by Hunt, and then runs 30 metres. Brilliant!

35min

PENALTY DRAGONS - And momentum switches again.

34min

Conversion: Dragons
Kicked by Zac Lomax.

Lomax converts

Roosters lead Roosters 20 - 12 Dragons
34min

Try: Dragons
Scored by Jack Bird. Kick to come.

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.

Roosters lead Roosters 20 - 10 Dragons
34min

Off to the bunker to look at a possible something for the Dragons

34min

Set restart Dragons - A full set 10m from the Roosters line

32min

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.

30min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Joseph Suaalii.

Suaalii adds another goal

Roosters lead Roosters 20 - 6 Dragons
29min

Try: Roosters
Scored by Luke Keary. Kick to come.

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.

Roosters lead Roosters 18 - 6 Dragons
28min

Set Restart Roosters 30m from the Dragons line

27min

SCRUM ROOSTERS - Dragons with a forward pass, 20m from the Roosters line

26min

PENALTY DRAGONS - They find touch quickly 5 metres inside the Roosters half.

26min

Penalty Goal: Roosters
Kicked by Joseph Suaalii.

Suaalii slots the penalty goal

Roosters lead Roosters 14 - 6 Dragons
22min

PENALTY ROOSTERS - Dragons holding down. The momentum has definitely changed now.

21min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Joseph Suaalii.

Suaali adds the extras from in front

Roosters lead Roosters 12 - 6 Dragons
21min

Try: Roosters
Scored by Victor Radley. Kick to come.

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

Roosters lead Roosters 10 - 6 Dragons
19min

Dragons just helped them out by turning the ball over just shy of halfway

18min

Roosters really struggling to get into the Dragons half.

16min

Conversion: Dragons
Kicked by Zac Lomax.

Lomax adds the extras

Tied up at Roosters 6 - 6 Dragons
14min

Try: Dragons
Scored by Tautau Moga. Kick to come.

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.

Roosters lead Roosters 6 - 4 Dragons
12min

PENALTY DRAGONS - Keary stops in the Defensive line. Pretty dopey to be honest.

9min

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.

8min

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

7min

Challenge failed

6min

Radley ruled to have dropped the ball. Roosters challenging the decision

5min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Joseph Suaalii.

Suaalii converts

Roosters lead Roosters 6 - 0 Dragons
4min

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

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.

Roosters lead Roosters 4 - 0 Dragons
3min

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)