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8:00pm Fri July 21, 2023
Round 21 - Sunshine Coast Stadium, Bokarina / Kabi Kabi - Crowd: 8931
79min

Set Restart Souths - 50 seconds left on the clock

76min

Conversion: Broncos
Kicked by Adam Reynolds.

Reynolds converts his own try

Broncos lead Rabbitohs 20 - 36 Broncos
75min

Try: Broncos
Scored by Adam Reynolds. Kick to come.

Broncos shift the ball right to Staggs who comes back inside, breaks through the Bunnies defence, then finds Reynolds in support who scores a good try.

Broncos lead Rabbitohs 20 - 34 Broncos
70min

Conversion: Rabbitohs
Kicked by Blake Taaffe.

Taaffe from out wide nails the conversion

Broncos lead Rabbitohs 20 - 30 Broncos
70min

Try: Rabbitohs
Scored by Isaiah Tass. Kick to come.

Some second phase play sees the ball go left to Walker who holds up a nice ball for Tass who scores out wide

Broncos lead Rabbitohs 18 - 30 Broncos
70min

PENALTY SOUTHS - They take the tap 15m from the Broncos line

70min

Arthars hits a falling Graham with a very high tackle and is given ten in the bin

65min

PENALTY SOUTHS - They're still 15m shy of halfway

65min

Conversion: Broncos
Kicked by Adam Reynolds.

Reynolds converts

Broncos lead Rabbitohs 14 - 30 Broncos
64min

Try: Broncos
Scored by Kotoni Staggs. Kick to come.

But they don't need the set restart, because Staggs splits the Bunnies goal-line defence and strolls over for a gift try.

Broncos lead Rabbitohs 14 - 28 Broncos
63min

Set restart Broncos

60min

Conversion: Broncos
Kicked by Adam Reynolds.

Reynolds converts the try

Broncos lead Rabbitohs 14 - 24 Broncos
59min

Try: Broncos
Scored by Xavier Willison. Kick to come.

Willison storms onto a crash ball and barges over and scores next to the posts

Broncos lead Rabbitohs 14 - 22 Broncos
57min

Brisbane go right but the final pass is knocked into touch by Souths

55min

Walker drops a pass cold 30m from his own line

55min

SCRUM BRISBANE - just on halfway

53min

Conversion: Broncos
Kicked by Adam Reynolds.

Reynolds converts

Broncos lead Rabbitohs 14 - 18 Broncos
51min

Try: Broncos
Scored by Reece Walsh. Kick to come.

Walsh gets outside the defender, steps inside the cover defence and races 30m to score

Broncos lead Rabbitohs 14 - 16 Broncos
47min

SCRUM BRISBANE - 20m from their own line

43min

Walsh makes a beeline for the corner but is taken into touch just shy of the line

40min

Second half underway

40min

Conversion: Rabbitohs
Kicked by Blake Taaffe.

Taaffe from a relatively easy angle, converts

Rabbitohs lead Rabbitohs 14 - 12 Broncos
40min

Try: Rabbitohs
Scored by Campbell Graham. Kick to come.

Graham barges over as the siren sounds. Dreadful goal-line defence by the Broncos.

Tied up at Rabbitohs 12 - 12 Broncos
39min

Set Restart Souths with 7 seconds left

38min

Walters grubbers for no-one and no one gets to it. Souths get a 7 tackle set

37min

PENALTY BRISBANE - They find touch 12m from halfway

37min

Walker gets hit and loses the ball, then gets all cranky-cuddly. There's nothing wrong with any of it

36min

Set restart Souths - 5m from the Broncos line

35min

Set Restart Souths - 10m from the Broncos line

34min

PENALTY SOUTHS - Walsh pinged for obstruction.

34min

If this gets any sloppier, it'll start to resemble a coaching change at the Wests Tigers. I got millions of these

33min

SCRUM BRISBANE - And Souths with another turnover.

31min

This game has seen both sides make almost as many errors as the Wests Tigers board

28min

Walters with a pass that was comfortably forward

26min

Conversion: Broncos
Kicked by Adam Reynolds.

Reynolds converts and in doing so, moves past Andrew Johns on the all-time pointscorers list.

Broncos lead Rabbitohs 8 - 12 Broncos
25min

Try: Broncos
Scored by Selwyn Cobbo. Kick to come.

Broncos shift the ball right with a glorious pass from Walsh to Cobbo, who is unmarked and gets outside the cover defence, and then shrugs out of the sweeping defenders tackle attempt to score.

Broncos lead Rabbitohs 8 - 10 Broncos
24min

Set restart Broncos - on their last tackle. They now have a full set inside the Souths half.

24min

And Sele loses it on the second tackle. Souths did everything they possibly could to make sure they didn't take advantage of the extra man advantage they had.

22min

Another pass by the Bunnies on the attack is knocked down by the Broncos, this time it's Walsh. Souths with another full set

21min

Broncos dropout goes out on the full. Souths take the tap, 10m out

20min

Reynolds saves a try, and his good sliding also saves him a few grand as he avoids colliding into a cameraman's equipment. Broncos dropout

18min

SCRUM SOUTHS - Now the game has descended into a dogs breakfast. Walker made a break, passed infield but Staggs knocked it down, backwards, Broncos regather and then loses the ball cold in a tackle.

17min

And Walsh loses the ball in a tackle.

16min

PENALTY BRONCOS - First tackle and the Broncos get a gift stroll inside the Bunnies half

15min

Koloamatangi tries to link with Graham, but Graham wasn't invited and he knocked on the pass

14min

PENALTY SOUTHS - Brisbane trying to see if they can lose a game in the space of ten minutes perhaps?

13min

Penalty Goal: Rabbitohs
Kicked by Blake Taaffe.

Taaffe kicks a penalty goal from almost in front.

Rabbitohs lead Rabbitohs 8 - 6 Broncos
12min

Taupau binned for his raised knee

12min

Taupau with a knee-up - a hit up but with his knee raised as high as possible. Why? Who knows. Brain snap. There was a scuffle afterwards and Taupau has been put on report and binned.

12min

Conversion: Broncos
Kicked by Adam Reynolds.

Reynolds adds the extras

Tied up at Rabbitohs 6 - 6 Broncos
10min

Try: Broncos
Scored by Kotoni Staggs. Kick to come.

Broncos basically pulled a try from the depths of their backsides here. Carrigan with a hitup towards the middle is shut down, but he offloads over the top to Walsh who was surrounded, so he fired a long ball out to Staggs, who accelerated, straightened and got between two defenders and did just enough to get across the line and get the ball down for a try

Rabbitohs lead Rabbitohs 6 - 4 Broncos
9min

Set Restart Broncos - 5m from Souths line and late in the set

9min

SCRUM BRONCOS - 20m from Souths line

8min

You know who drops the you know what from the restart. (Burgess with a knock-on)

7min

Conversion: Rabbitohs
Kicked by Blake Taaffe.

Taafe with the low kick, converts from the sideline

Rabbitohs lead Rabbitohs 6 - 0 Broncos
6min

Try: Rabbitohs
Scored by Alex Johnston. Kick to come.

you know who scores a you know what. Souths shift left to Johnston, who changes his direction after slowing down, stepping inside two defenders who overrun him, and then he strolls through the gap back inside to score.

Rabbitohs lead Rabbitohs 4 - 0 Broncos
4min

PENALTY SOUTHS - Bunnyback penalty, gets Souths within 12m of halfway

4min

SCRUM SOUTHS - Cody Walker with a herculean tackle denies Staggs a try and forces a knock-on.

3min

Broncos get another set restart, 12m from the Bunnies line

2min

Set restart Broncos - 7m inside the Bunnies half

2min

both sides with identical opening sets, not much ball movement, kick high and deep to the corner

And the Bunnies get this shindig started

Referees & scorers:

Referee: Ashley Klein

Touch Judges: Chris Sutton, Wyatt Raymond

Video Referee: Gerard Sutton

SOUTH SYDNEY RABBITOHS (20)
Tries: Alex Johnston, Campbell Graham, Isaiah Tass
Conversions: Blake Taaffe (3/3)
Penalty Goals: Blake Taaffe (1/1)

BRISBANE BRONCOS (36)
Tries: Kotoni Staggs (2), Adam Reynolds, Selwyn Cobbo, Reece Walsh, Xavier Willison
Conversions: Adam Reynolds (6/6)