Game over, Tigers don't do anything with that last play and the Bulldogs will finish the game with an eight-point win, turning around the same deficit after halftime. The 'Dogs now sit 4-4 after nine rounds (one bye) and in the top eight.
Challenge is successful. Tigers retain possession.
Two tackles into the set and Wests Tigers have an error on halfway.... CAPTAINS CHALLENGE on the decision. You have to laugh.
Time off, BUNKER TIME. Badger's sending a potential Canterbury try to Kurt Mann up as NO TRY. Checking obstruction from Sam Hughes... NO TRY. Hughes was in the line causing obstruction. Tigers penalty with 88 seconds on the clock.
Canterbury with 2 and a half to go will have some footy after a speculator play from the Tigers between Sezer and Alaimalo doesn't work out.
A Tigers error ... nope a double knock on against Canterbury. CAPTAINS CHALLENGE from the home team...
Seyfarth joins him after the fight! 13 on 11 to finish the game! Wowee.
ITS ON. Kasey Badger sends the former Bulldogs Dave Klemmer to the bin for ten minutes after some dissent and it's all kicking off as he starts leaving the field. Kikau and Seyfarth come together...
The Tigers have really struggled to make anything of any opportunity in the last period of the game. A little bit more footy but Canterbury's defence true to the task thus far.
Oh no. John Bateman takes out Curran in the defensive line while the Tigers are trying to recover from a charged-down kick. Dogs penalty 30m out. Badger talks to Bateman and reminds him that his team is one indiscretion away from a sin bin.
Tigers' last tackle kick to the right corner is batted back by Staines... to Kikau. Dogs let off the hook there.
Time off with John Bateman hobbling a bit after heavy contact in a tackle. No issues with the way he appeared to get injured so we play on. Tigers are attacking.
Everything going the 'Dogs way at the moment. A Tigers error sees Canterbury with a scrum on halfway.
Trailed by eight at halftime... now they lead by eight with Burton keeping his record perfect, now 5/5.
Suddenly the blue-and-whites have turned on the flair! Burton finds a break into the backfield from his own 40m, he draws Bula and finds Xerri on the left about 30m from the line and Xerri completes the action 15m to the left of the uprights.
Burton adds the two to put Canterbury ahead for the first time today.
Correction - perplexing stuff that the Bunker hasn't ordered a sin-bin.
Sezer is ON REPORT but isn't sin-binned. Perplexing stuff from Badger there.
Time off with Canterbury's Josh Curran down with an apparent leg injury. Replays suggest Aidan Sezer has hip-dropped...
Canterbury pick up a set restart on the Tigers' 40m. Behind by eight at the break, could the Bulldogs be leading inside 15 minutes of the first half?
Exciting breakaway play down the right edge on the last from Canterbury but it ends in a turnover to the Tigers.
14-apiece just eight minutes after the break. Great start to the half for the Belmore lads.
Canterbury pick up a penalty after interference off a grubber. Brent Naden takes Xerri off the ball. The Accor faithful are baying for a sin bin that doesn't come. Burton will shoot for two to level the scores.
CAPTAINS CHALLENGE: Canterbury challenging a handover, Crichton says to Badger the Tigers played at it. The replays confirm that. Canterbury with a fresh set just 10m from the visitors' line!
Burton nails that one and the deficit shrinks back to two points.
Josh Curran scores off a clever grubber through the line and the Bulldogs catch the Tigers on the back foot early in the half.
Dogs winning the early territory battle since the break. Taaffe brings a kick return to just about halfway and the hosts are making easy metres...
We're back underway, Bulldogs first use of the pill.
HALFTIME. Right at the death, Burton chips and puts Addo-Carr into some space. The Foxx then grubbers ahead for Xerri but the centre is outpaced to the ball by Charlie Staines. Siren goes.
A set restart with about one minute left in the half has the Tigers with a full set to finish the half... can they extend their lead? Nope. Bula loses the footy and Canterbury get a scrum with 30 seconds to produce some magic off their own 10m.
Solomon Alaimalo is upended in a dnagerous tackle involving Reed Mahoney. The Bulldogs' hooker is ON REPORT. Tigers kick for touch from their own 40m and with 90 seconds on the clock have a full set from the Dogs' 40m.
Dogs try to be tricky on the last, Morrin ends up grubbering to the goal line but Bula takes it and saves the day for the Tigers, who pick up a penalty two plays later.
Tigers error near their own 40m means another Canterbury scrum. just under seven minutes to the break, Dogs need a try here you'd think.
Third play after the resumption and the Tigers have lost it coming out of their own end, Sezer bobbling it into the opposition.
Sezer has no trouble with this one and the lead is back out to eight points.
Successful captain's challenge and three plays later, he scores the try! Right beside the posts too. Forces his way over.
Gerry Sutton in the Bunker agrees with Pole, penalty Tigers and a full set right in front of the Bulldogs' posts.
CAPTAINS CHALLENGE: Tigers ruled to have knocked it on with Fonua Pole, he asks for Badger to send it to the Bunker...
ON REPORT: Brent Naden for sliding in on Mann during the tryscoring action.
Burton has no issue adding the two.
Kurt Mann finds his way over the line about 10m to the left of the sticks through a very soft hole in the Tigers' defensive line.
PENALTY BULLDOGS: Tigers inside the 10m, Canterbury will tap and play.
Canterbury pick up a penalty just inside Tigers' territory for not clearing the ruck. The kick for touch has the home team with a full set starting roughly 20m out. Big chance for them to get back into the contest here.
The visitors look like they were running away to score with Naden and Staines connecting off a Bula offload again but there was some forward trajectory in the link-up passing with Badger calls back. Canterbury with a scrum feed ten short of halfway.
The Bunker confirms the Tigers successful challenge with Isaiah Papali'i cleared of foul play, his knee to Kikau's head ruled accidental. Canterbury play the ball on tackle five.
PENALTY BULLDOGS: Kikau takes a knee to the head. The Tigers are throwing up a CAPTAINS CHALLENGE.
Sezer converts from the sideline with a beaut curling effort.
The Forbes Ferrari has crossed! Bula gets a ball over the top, finding Naden who places it perfectly to Staines who finishes the 80m effort off in the right corner at the northern end of Accor Stadium.
Sezer hammers over the game's opening points.
After the Bulldogs' earlier territorial domination, it's now tipping the other way. Crichton gets his hand to a loose Tigers pass and hands them another scrum feed on the Canterbury 10m. Two tackles later Badger awards a penalty for high contact... Sezer looked ready to play on but he calls for the tee and will shoot for two.
Another tackle count restart, this one after Canterbury touched a loose ball. Tigers full set 10m out...
Wests Tigers earn a set restart after Canterbury are ruled inside the 10 around the halfway line. Last attacking set was poor from the visitors, let's see what they've got now...
PENALTY Wests Tigers, new set for them will now start just inside Canterbury's half.
Stephen Crichton breaks down the other edge a couple of plays later and now the Dogs are on the attack with two tackles left. Last tackle arrives and Burton's cross-field kick is dealt with well from the Tigers and they'll work it off their own line.
Lachlan Galvin hoists it high on the last but Taaffe is under it safely. A play later, Xerri makes a break and carries it as far as the halfway line.
Tigers' scramble so far has been enough to keep the Dogs at bay, and a last tackle kick dribbles dead and the visitors will get a 20m restart.
Almost a try for the hosts after Kiraz jinked and stepped, then tried offloading to Hutchison, but a Tigers player grabs onto it and grounds it in goal. Drop out, more attack for Canterbury ahead.
Canterbury looked like they'd put it into touch through quick hands by Kikau out to the left, but referee Kasey Badger rules the Tigers were inside the 10 and blows a penalty. More chances for the blue and whites...
Canterbury earn a repeat set after a kick is played at by the Tigers about 40m from the away team's line. Big early chance looming for the hosts.
GAME ON at Accor. Burton kicks off to the Tigers who get first use. The away team are running right to left on your device screen.
The players emerge from the tunnel - first the Tigers in their orange away jersey, then Canterbury, in their... blue away jersey. At home. Go figure. Kickoff imminent.
Jake Simpkin is the new face for the Tigers lineup. Captain Api Koroisau is out of the side named Tuesday.
To today's game, it's the Dogs and Tigers to kick us off. Changes for both teams who need a good win to set a platform for the weeks to come. Canterbury have a couple of changes with fullback Connor Tracey ruled out, in coming Blake Taaffe at fullback and a returnee on the bench with Jacob Preston playing for the first time in over a month.
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Referees & scorers:
Referee: Kasey Badger
Touch Judges: Drew Oultram, Jon Stone
Video Referee: Gerard Sutton
CANTERBURY-BANKSTOWN BULLDOGS (22)
Tries: Kurt Mann, Josh Curran, Bronson Xerri
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Matt Burton (3/3)
Penalty Goals: Matt Burton (2/2)
WESTS TIGERS (14)
Tries: Charlie Staines, Fonua Pole
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Aidan Sezer (2/2)
Penalty Goals: Aidan Sezer (1/1)