Fogarty slots a field goal right on fulltime
PENALTY RAIDERS - Souths with a short kick off but they have players offside. Raiders find touch 16m from the Souths line with 30 seconds remaining
Croker has a shot at the penalty goal from 30m out. and he nails it and soaks up a valuable minute of gametime.
PENALTY RAIDERS - Cartwright is down injured after he was wrongfooted in defence. He's hobbling. Play carried on and Canberra were awarded a penalty after Hame Sele interfered with the play the ball. Souths challenge and failed
SCRUM RAIDERS - Forward pass by Souths
Souths with a short restart didn't go 10 on the full, but bounced forward and the Bunnies regathered.
Croker from near the left sideline converts
Wighton almnost gets through a tackle, then offload while falling forward, finding Rapana who passed to Hopoate while being met in a tackle and the winger raced away to score his third
Croker yelled out for a fork, a bit odd....
Taaffe from almost right in front puts the Bunnies in front
Walker at dummy half close to the Raiders line, grubbers into the ingoal and Cook sprints through and plants the ball for a try under the posts.
SCRUM RABBITOHS - Souths grubbered to the left corner but a fumble-a-thon from both sides resulted in the play breaking down.
Captain challenge failed.
CHN is on a stretcher and has been lifted onto the medicab. It appears that he is conscious and was talking. Still very scary stuff.
Captain's challenge from Souths. But play stopped after Corey Harawira-Naera looked to have collapsed and the appeared to be shaking while on the ground. Players from both sides have surrounded him while the medics are on the field
Rapana break a tackle and almost gets to the tryline.
Walker with a nice run around play before he....kicks it dead. Raiders 7 tackle set
Canberra have won their last 8 games when they've scored at least 24 points and their opponents have scored at least 20 points.
Fogarty on the third tackle has a crack at a 40/20, but manages to kick it out on the full. Souths with the ball 30m from the Raiders line
Croker converts
Raiders out of nowhere go to the right where Wighton gets outside his defender and then throws a cut-out pass to Croker in space who darts down the sideline and then passes inside behind Wighton in support, but right onto the chest of Starling who scores.
Raiders are slowly but surely barging their way back into the contest
Taaffe with another kick for goal with a degree of difficulty of 32409. But he nails this one and Souths now lead!
Walker has decided he wants to win this game. On the left side, he holds up a pass and then hits the trailing runner with a nice pass, who quickly gets the ball to Johnston who scores in the corner and the scores are level.
Souths have really come out firing in this second half, in attack and especially in defence
Taaffe slots the goal
Walker with a lovely flat short ball on the left side, hits Tass sweetly and he punches through the Raiders edge defence and scores.
Wighton put a huge hit on Ilias, trying to sure up his position as a half for next year?
Set restart Souths, 7.37m from the Raiders line
Souths get another set restart-Penalty combo
PENALTY RABBITOHS - Souths find touch 12m inside the Raiders half. They get the first genuine attacking opportunity of the second half
We back on.
3 seconds left, Taafe nicely fields a kick and then throws a filthy pass that is almost gets intercepted, but Souths hang on and thats halftime.
SCRUM RAIDERS - Souths then throw the ball into touch.
PENALTY RABBITOHS - Set restart Souths turns into a Penalty and Souths find touch 10m shy of halfway.
Croker converts from in front.
PENALTY RAIDERS - Keaon Koloamatangi pinged for an illegal strip.
Set Restart Raiders on the first tackle.25m from the Bunnies line
Fogarty grubbers into the Souths ingoal for Wighton, but the kick is a bit too urgent. Taafe though knocks it dead to be safe. Souths drop out.
Taafe fails to convert from out wide again
Souths swing the ball quickly to the left side to Johnston who scores in the corner. Splendid passing in the lead-up.
Raiders with a drop out. They go short but pick out the tallest human in the game in Cartwright, who takes the ball.
Canberra have won 75.555555555555555555556% of their games against Souths when they've scored at least 16 points (34 wins from 45 occasions). #RandomUselessStats
PENALTY SOUTHS - They find touch on halfway
Croker converts from the sideline
Horsburgh with a big run, makes a break and links with Tapine who almost scores. On the next play the Raiders swing the ball to the left to Croker who holds up the ball for a beat to draw the Souths winger in, passes to Hopoate who scores another try.
The trainer is trying to tell the injury to go away. Doesn't seem to be working...yet. Maybe Alan Jones could have a word with the injury
Kris is hobbling badly in the back. Hasn't come off yet, he cannot run though
Croker from the left sideline fails to convert
Raiders spread the ball to the left and some quick hands by Croker gets the ball onto Hopoate in space, he makes a beeline for the corner and grounds the ball just before being pushed into touch
Johnston fields a deep Raiders kick, runs into the field of play, but is met by Horsburgh and Rapana who push him back ingoal. Souths dropout
Croker converts
Papali'i makes a break and offloads beautifully to Saulo. A quick play-the-ball and Canberra swings the ball out to the right side and Horsburgh gets the ball, runs straight and busts through the Bunnies defence to score.
Raiders forwards making good metres but their halves and backs aren't doing a great deal off the back of that good work
Souths last win on May 27th came back in Round 13, 1984 against the Bears #RandomUselessStat
Taafe from the sideline absolute hammers the upright flush. No goal.
Souths on the right side get the ball to Walker who dishes a short ball to the straight running Cartwright who bursts through a gap, evades the cover defender and scores.
Souths with back-to-back set restarts deep inside the Raiders half
Alan Jones has returned in the Raiders coaches box. Apparently he's been working on the one-way arguments with Ricky.
Croker gets dished a hospital pass and wears a hit to his midsection.
PENALTY RAIDERS - Taafe looked like he had created a brilliant try, but the referee ruled obstruction. Raiders find touch 5m shy of halfway
PENALTY SOUTHS - On the first tackle. The find touch 5m inside the Raiders half
Fogarty's first kick at the end of a strong set, was meh. Souths get a 7 tackle set
Souths kick off
Canberra's last win against Souths at this venue was back in 2017. Souths last win over the Raiders here was in 2013
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Grant Atkins
Touch Judges: David Munro, Jon Stone
Video Referee: Adam Gee
SOUTH SYDNEY RABBITOHS (26)
Tries: Jed Cartwright, Alex Johnston (2), Isaiah Tass, Damien Cook
Conversions: Blake Taaffe (3/5)
CANBERRA RAIDERS (33)
Tries: Corey Horsburgh, Albert Hopoate (3), Tom Starling
Field Goals: Jamal Fogarty (1/1)
Conversions: Jarrod Croker (4/5)
Penalty Goals: Jarrod Croker (2/2)