PENALTY MANLY - They get the last set
Smith from the right sideline, narrowly misses
Keary kicks to the right corner, Manu catches it and gets a offload to Young who scores
Garrick converts
Brooks hit lead runner Ben Trbojevic with a sweet short ball. Ben busts through the line and scores.
And Haumole Olakau'atu spills it early in the set.
PENALTY MANLY - They find touch 10m inside the Roosters half
Roosters having a challenge for a laugh. Bunker laughed.
Brooks kicks it out on the full. Trying something different.
Sandon Smith takes the kick while Suaalii deals with a cramp. Smith nails the goal.
PENALTY ROOSTERS - They'll take the 2.
PENALTY MANLY - They find touch 5m on the Roosters side of halfway
Brooks with a stunning catch, saves a try. 3 Dally M points! (Sorry Nicho)
SCRUM ROOSTERS - Lawton loses the ball in the tackle in Manly's half.
Garrick converts from the sideline
DCE kicks across field to the unmarked Talau, who gets a poor bounce, Talau got a hand on the ball, but then reached out to reel the ball in before it hit the ground and managed to force it for a try.
Off to the bunker to see if Talau has scored a try.
Suaalii with a relatively easy kick, and he slots the two.
Tedesco snares his second try. He gets the ball in broken field, 15m from the Manly line, dummied, stepped and sliced through the scrambling defence to score to the right of the posts.
SCRUM ROOSTERS - 30m from Manly's line
Suaalii kicks another penalty goal.
PENALTY ROOSTERS - Crichton tries to plant the ball for a try, but drops it.. Roosters challenge, but not the knock on, they believe DCE held a Roosters play off the ball. Challenge successful.
PENALTY ROOSTERS - Manly break from the scrum too quickly.
SCRUM ROOSTERS - 30m from Manly's line.
"The Brooks Bus has a flat tyre. We thank you for your patience as we attend to this matter"
Suaalii from the sideline, converts
Roosters spread it left to Tedesco who holds up a nice flat ball to Tupou, who dives over to score.
SCRUM ROOSTERS - 30m from Manly's line. Manly challenge a call of knock on. The fail.
Garrick from near the posts, fails to convert
DCE puts up a genius chip close to the Roosters line and Haumole Olakau'atugets a perfect bounce and he regathers and scores.
Suaalii converts
Smith scores a very important try just before the break. An offload goes to ground, Smith regathers then hops, dummies and stands up DCE and races through the gap to score a brilliant try
Suaalii converts from touch
Beautiful short-side play. Tedesco wraps around the back, creating the extra man, he links with Tupou who then turns it back to Tedesco in support who barges over to score.
Suaalii kicks the penalty goal from in front.
Set Restart Roosters and before the play the ball is completed, Manly get's penalised for not clearing the ruck.
Set restart Roosters, 25m from Manly's line
Manly making metres through second phase play,
Haumole Olakau'atu is saving his arms totally for ball carrying. Letting his shoulders do all his defence.
DCE cross-kick, is knocked on by Manly. No try.
This looks to be a sloppy mess. Going to the Bunker to unravel this blergh
PENALTY MANLY - They find touch just inside the Roosters half
PENALTY ROOSTERS - They find touch 8m inside Manly's half
Set Restart Roosters - and then they drop the ball.
PENALTY ROOSTERS - Haumole Olakau'atu with an absolute shoulder charge on Collins. Roosters march up to halfway
Jake Trbojevic has passed his HIA
Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii converts
Tedesco 5m from the Roosters line, runs to the line, props and then dishes a sweet ball to Radley who ran off the back fence onto that pass and he scored under the posts.
SCRUM ROOSTERS - 35m from Manly's line
Roosters dominating the middle so far
Roosters a bit panicky close to the Manly line and they turn it over.
Haumole Olakau'atu with a big hit!
PENALTY ROOSTERS - Illegal strip by Brown. Roosters find touch 10m inside Manly's half.
Brooks with a lovely ball to a winger that wasn't there, and it goes into touch, 20m from the Roosters line
At this rate, Luke Brooks will be on his own for Manly after 4 minutes.
And after 23 seconds we've stopped again and Jake Trbojevic has had a head clash with Lodge. He comes off now for an HIA
And after 12 seconds we've stopped with Koula down after attempting the first tackle of the night on JWH and he's been rebooted. He's up and jogging off now to have an HIA done. On comes Ben Trbojevic
Manly get us started
Get aboard the Brooks Bus to Grand Final glory!
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Grant Atkins
Touch Judges: Phil Henderson, Matt Noyen
Video Referee: Chris Butler
SYDNEY ROOSTERS (40)
Tries: Victor Radley, James Tedesco (2), Sandon Smith, Daniel Tupou, Dominic Young
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii (5/5), Sandon Smith (0/1)
Penalty Goals: Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii (2/2), Sandon Smith (1/1)
MANLY-WARRINGAH SEA EAGLES (16)
Tries: Haumole Olakau'atu, Tommy Talau, Ben Trbojevic
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Reuben Garrick (2/3)
Penalty Goals: