Siren sounds, Storm opt to take a shot at 2 and Meaney converts.
PENALTY STORM - Warbrick got into space, stepped himself, tripped over and then lost the ball due to an illegal strip.
SCRUM STORM - 10m from the Storm line
Challenge Fails.
Sloan hit with a knock on. Dragons challenging
Dragons with a short restart and they get the ball back
Meaney converts
Katoa absolutely MONSTERS Hunt while he was drifting across looking for a runner. Hughes picks up the loose ball and races 30 metres to score untouched
Hunt chips from inside his own half, Sloan catches it and races 30 metres, then passes to Burns who is tackled from behind and loses the ball.
Hunt from out wide, fails to convert
Suli breaks a tackle and the gets a good ball to Ravalawa who scores in the corner almost untouched.
Set Restart Dragons, 2m from the Storm line
Dragons get a fresh set, just inside the Storm half
Storm with an atrocious set there.
SCRUM STORM - Hunt with a knock on at dummy half, 12m from his own line
Burns has the Storm defence guessing every time he touches the ball.
No try. But if Phil Gould was in the bunker he'd have given it, because it was a good effort.
Ravalawa tries to perform magic in order to score a try here.
SCRUM DRAGONS - 10m from the Storm line
Set restart Dragons
Liddle with a 1-on-1 strip
Set restart Storm
Amone sent the longest hospital pass ever to Feagai, who was immediately tackled and then he fumbled the ball over the sideline
Burns with a brilliant stepping run, makes 25 metres.
Dragons defence eventually puts Coates into touch, 10m inside the Storm half
Meaney converts
Hughes with a deft little chip bounces up nicely for Katoa chasing through, he grabs it and scores a clever try.
PENALTY STORM - Seve tackled without the ball
PENALTY STORM - They make 5m from the kick for touch,
Meaney from almost in front, converts
Hughes with a great short ball in traffic to Katoa, who barges his way over for a try
SCRUM STORM - Hughes with a change of mind grubber. Dragons knock on. 5m from their own line.
Hughes with a grubber and forces a drop out
And another Set Restart for the Storm
Set Restart Storm
Hunt converts
Burns on the kick chase braces himself to start defending, but then Warbrick juggled the ball. Burns performs a one-on-one strip and then reaches over the line to score
PENALTY DRAGONS - Kick chase for the Storm offside.
Second half is on
Munster has a shot at a 2 point field goal from halfway and it falls about 20 metres short.
Meaney fails to convert from the sideline again
Coates with a ridiculous try. He takes a ruck run 15m from halfway, struggles out of the tackle, runs 40 metres and then brushes off the cover tackle attempt and scores in the Warbrick corner.
Meaney fails to converts from touch
Storm from nothing, send the ball right to Katoa, who throws a lovely cut out pass over the top to Warbrick, who outpaced one defender and then went into overdrive when Amone appears and he dives over to score his third.
Meaney converts from the sideline
Storm send the ball right to Hughes, who runs to the line before linking with Meaney, who draws the winger and passes to the unmarked Warbrick, who dives over in the corner
Set restart Storm again
10 seconds later and they get another set restart
Set restart Storm - 5m from the Dragons line
PENALTY STORM - Storm were doing nothing inside their own half. Hughes kicks low and Sloan very nearly keeps it in the field of play. Storm start their set 30m from the Dragons line
Grant's eye has been cleared of any concussion and is allowed to return to the field, with Harry attached of course.
Hunt adds the extras
Amone has just managed to get the ball on the stripe
Dragons on the left run a short-side play where they pass left then quickly turn it back inside to Amone who ends up across the line. Ref says no try, but calls for the Bunker
Dragons find touch 10m inside the Storm half
PENALTY DRAGONS - Storm kick chase is offside. Dragons are dominating!
Coates with a great catch at the end of that Hunt kick.
Sloan with a mini break and the Dragons are back on the attack again
Hunt converts
Ben Hunt with a gorgeous little drop pass which Sloan caught down low as the lead runner and he stepped through the middle defence close to the loan and scores under the posts.
Amone very nearly gets across the line
Another set restart for the Dragons
Set restart Dragons - 5m from the Storm line
Harry Grant has a concussed eye apparently.
Amone with a nice grubber and Meaney cleans up in his own ingoal but yields and takes it dead. Storm drop out
Hunt from in front, converts with his ...punt....I'll stop before i find anymore rhyming words....
Burns is given the ball on the last at first receiver, almost threw a dummy, which the defence fell for badly and Burns strolled through a yawning gap to score a genius try.
PENALTY DRAGONS - Late in the set, they'll find touch inside the Storm half
Meaney from touch, cannot convert
Warbrick had 3 blades of grass to work with, which is 2 blades more than enough. Storm go right to Warbrick, 10m from the Dragons line and he dives over the cover defnce and plants the ball in the corner for a good try.
SCRUM STORM - Melbourne tried to copy the Dragons here. King offloaded to Hughes who dropped the ball. However, the ball went forward off a Dragons hand first
SCRUM STORM - Something different happened. But not too different. Ravalawa fumbled the ball inside his own half
Neither side giving an inch, or a different set. Its like a game of chess, but with less thinking
Dragons get this shindig started
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Peter Gough
Touch Judges: Wyatt Raymond, Liam Kennedy
Video Referee: Ashley Klein
ST GEORGE ILLAWARRA DRAGONS (28)
Tries: Billy Burns (2), Tyrell Sloan, Talatau Amone, Mikaele Ravalawa
Conversions: Ben Hunt (4/5)
MELBOURNE STORM (38)
Tries: William Warbrick (3), Xavier Coates, Eliesa Katoa (2), Jahrome Hughes
Conversions: Nick Meaney (4/7)
Penalty Goals: Nick Meaney (1/1)