De Belin barges over but is held up
Staggs fails to convert from outwide
Staggs receives a long hail Mary pass, he accelerates outside his defender, gets flung over in the tackle and he rolls over the Dragons line and scores.
Staggs converts
Mozer the Dozer gets over from dummy half
Flanagan kicks a penalty goal
PENALTY DRAGONS - kinda late-ish, apparently, tackle.
Set Restart Dragons - On halfway
Staggs passes back inside and it's intercepted by Liddle
Set restart Broncos, 2m from the Dragons line
Short drop out and the Broncos come up with it
Mam chips ahead for himself, into the Dragons ingoal and Sloan bats it dead. Dragons drop out
Staggs fails to convert
Staggs receives a brilliant offload flick pass from Sailor, Staggs then steps the last line of defence and then outruns Marschke to score in the corner
SCRUM DRAGONS - Rogers tries to get a quick play the ball but he ends up with a quick bucket of slop.
Set Restart Broncos, 10m inside the Dragons half
Broncos defence dishing out whacks
Oates bundled into touch veeeeery close to scoring
Set restart Broncos 20m from the Dragons line
PENALTY BRONCOS - They're around halfway
Staggs converts
Mam powers out of a tackle and finds himself in the Dragons ingoal and he scores.
PENALTY BRONCOS - First tackle from the penalty and Molo pulls on Taupau's hair. Broncos find touch 25m from the Dragons line
PENALTY BRONCOS - They find touch 10m shy of halfway
SCRUM DRAGONS - Riki knock-on. 30m from the Dragons line
Off to the Bunker as the Dragons are challenging. They are successful.
SCRUM BRONCOS - Suli loses the ball 40m from the Broncos line
SCRUM DRAGONS - Sailor with a knock on 32m from the Dragons line
Flanagan threads the sideline conversion through
Christian Tuipulotu benefits from some quick passing on the left side and he strolls over to score his third try
Broncos get this contest resumed
PENALTY DRAGONS - Late in the set. Dragons find touch 10m inside the Broncos half
Flanagan converts
Sailor drops the bomb. Su'A cleans up and carries a defender over the line to score.
Walters caught with his hands in the cookie jar. Unsuccessful challenge.
PENALTY DRAGONS - From the kick-off the Dragons lose the ball. Ref calls strip. Broncos challenge
Flanagan gets the sideline conversion
Tuipulotu wins the tractor pull! He barges towards the line with three defenders all over him from 3m out, he keeps pushing and gets over the line as Riki also gets involved in the tackle.
Set restart Dragons - 10m from the Broncos line
Off to the bunker to look at Leilua lying in the broncos in goal, with the ball live, right near his armpit, while he is unaware as he rue's a lost chance.
Staggs back and he turns the ball over 20m from his own line
Flanagan narrowly misses the conversion again
Suli gets between two defenders and shrugs off a feeble tackle effort by Riki and scores a soft try.
SCRUM DRAGONS - Ezra Mam throws a forward pass, 20m from his own line
Ravalawa denied a try in the corner. It was very close
Off to the Bunker to see if Ravalawa scored
PENALTY DRAGONS - High tackle. Dragons find touch 32m from the Broncos line
Given there's a Leilua on the field, having Staggs committing the first brain snap was pretty low
Flanagan kicks a penalty goal
Staggs makes a great tackle on Marschke who made a break. But then at marker he wasn't quite square and he knocks the ball out of Sloan's hands (who was dummy half). Ref wastes no time to send Staggs to the Bin
Staggs converts
4 tackles later, Broncos get another set restart, but they don't need it because Billy Walters barges over from dummy half to score next to the posts.
Great run by Staggs, brought down 2m shy of the Dragons line. Then the Broncos get a set restart
PENALTY BRONCOS - Dragons offside from the scrum. Broncos get out of their half
SCRUM DRAGONS
PENALTY DRAGONS - Late in the set after points. They find touch 15m inside the Broncos half
Flanagan from the sideline misses narrowly.
Christian Tuipulotu gets outside the defence, steps back inside and just barges through the cover defenders and twists over to score
PENALTY DRAGONS - They start this set 7, inside the Broncos half
Mam and Rogers are just putting up kicks designed to put Sloan into an ambulance, as he keeps getting bundled up by Riki as soon as he catches the ball.
Just like the city of Brisbane, not much has happened in this game yet
Dragons kick off
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Liam Kennedy
Touch Judges: Matt Noyen, Jon Stone
Video Referee: Gerard Sutton
BRISBANE BRONCOS (26)
Tries: Billy Walters, Kotoni Staggs (2), Ezra Mam, Blake Mozer
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Kotoni Staggs (3/5)
Penalty Goals:
ST GEORGE ILLAWARRA DRAGONS (30)
Tries: Christian Tuipulotu (3), Moses Suli, Jaydn Su'A
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Kyle Flanagan (3/5)
Penalty Goals: Kyle Flanagan (2/2)