Full Time
80:00
4:00pm Fri April 25, 2025
Round 8 - Allianz Stadium, Moore Park / Gadigal - Crowd: 41021
79min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Sandon Smith.

Smith from in front, converts

Roosters lead Roosters 46 - 18 Dragons
78min

Try: Roosters
Scored by Hugo Savala. Kick to come.

Radley offloads inside to Tedesco who draws Gutherson before passing inside to Savala who strolls in to score.

Roosters lead Roosters 44 - 18 Dragons
77min

Conversion: Roosters
Attempted by Sandon Smith.

Smith out on the right sideline, just misses the conversion

Roosters lead Roosters 40 - 18 Dragons
77min

Try: Roosters
Scored by James Tedesco. Kick to come.

Tedesco at dummy half close to the Dragons line, goes to the shortside, spins in the defensive line and then he falls over the line in the corner to score.

Roosters lead Roosters 40 - 18 Dragons
74min

Conversion: Dragons
Kicked by Valentine Holmes.

Holmes converts from in front

Roosters lead Roosters 36 - 18 Dragons
73min

Try: Dragons
Scored by Tyrell Sloan. Kick to come.

Sloan goes in for a simple try

Roosters lead Roosters 36 - 16 Dragons
72min

SCRUM DRAGONS - Leniu dropped it cold, 5m shy of halfway.

71min

SCRUM ROOSTERS - 10m from their own line

68min

PENALTY DRAGONS - 10m from the Roosters line

66min

Sandon Smith makes a break running from dummy half, gets to Gutherson and this time Smith passes to Tedesco, but the Fullback drops the pass.

65min

SCRUM DRAGONS - 30m from their own line

63min

SCRUM DRAGONS - 10m from their own line

62min

PENALTY ROOSTERS - They find touch 30m from the Dragons line

61min

Captains Challenge. Roosters challenge ruling of knock on near the Dragons line. Bunker says no.

59min

Penalty Goal: Roosters
Kicked by Sandon Smith.

Smith takes a shot at penalty goal and nails it.

Roosters lead Roosters 36 - 12 Dragons
58min

PENALTY ROOSTERS - first tackle after finding touch and Guler gets pinged for a high tackle

58min

PENALTY ROOSTERS - They find touch 25m from the Dragons line

58min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Sandon Smith.

Smith converts.

Roosters lead Roosters 34 - 12 Dragons
57min

Try: Roosters
Scored by James Tedesco. Kick to come.

Sandon Smith with a clever run into a small gap and then puts in a cleverer grubber while tackled and Tedesco plants it for a try.

Roosters lead Roosters 32 - 12 Dragons
55min

Sloan makes a break down the right wing and turns it inside but the ball is knocked on,

53min

Conversion: Dragons
Kicked by Valentine Holmes.

Holmes from wide on the left converts.

Roosters lead Roosters 28 - 12 Dragons
52min

Try: Dragons
Scored by Kyle Flanagan. Kick to come.

Gutherson on the left edge gets a lovely offload away to Holmes. Holmes made a break down the left wing before turning it inside to Flanagan who scores.

Roosters lead Roosters 28 - 10 Dragons
50min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Hugo Savala.

Savala converts.

Roosters lead Roosters 28 - 6 Dragons
49min

Try: Roosters
Scored by Blake Steep. Kick to come.

Dockar-Clayy out of dummy half, gets an offload away in the defensive line to Steep in the clear and throws a dummy and Gutherson falls for it again. Steep scores under the posts.

Roosters lead Roosters 26 - 6 Dragons
47min

Penalty Goal: Roosters
Kicked by Hugo Savala.

Savala kicks a penalty goal.

Roosters lead Roosters 22 - 6 Dragons
47min

PENALTY ROOSTERS - Ilias touched a Roosters player in the back leading up to the disallowed try. Roosters take a shot at the 2.

47min

A bomb has been contested by the two fullbacks - it came out and Toia regathered and scored. Bunker ruled no try.

47min

Off to the bunker to see if the Roosters have scored

46min

Gutherson throws a pass to a shadow and the Dragons turn it over 10m from the Roosters line

45min

Before the scrum sets, the Ref calls over Sandon Smith and puts him in the bin for a high shot on Lachlan Ilias

44min

SCRUM DRAGONS - Roosters with accidental offside.

43min

back to back set restarts for the Dragons

42min

Cook makes a break and pinches 35m

39min

Set restart - a Leilua brainfart late in the set.

37min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Sandon Smith.

Smith converts from in front

Roosters lead Roosters 20 - 6 Dragons
36min

Try: Roosters
Scored by Sandon Smith. Kick to come.

A Roosters pass is almost intercepted by Liddle, who knocked the ball up. As Liddle went to regather it, Sandon Smith claimed it, ran through the defensive line that turned into statues. He raced up to Gutherson who fell for a semi-shimmy and Smith scored under the posts.

Roosters lead Roosters 18 - 6 Dragons
32min

Penalty Goal: Roosters
Kicked by Sandon Smith.

Smith to the right of the posts and 20m out, adds the 2.

Roosters lead Roosters 14 - 6 Dragons
32min

PENALTY ROOSTERS - Dragons offside. Roosters going to take a shot at 2

31min

Finau loses it in the first tackle and Mark Nawaqanitawase regathers and then sets off down the right wing, makes 70m before he gets tackled

30min

SCRUM DRAGONS - 20m from the Roosters line

29min

PENALTY DRAGONS - They find touch 36 metres from the Roosters line

28min

Damien Cook coming off for an HIA

27min

SCRUM DRAGONS - Savala drops the ball in a tackle. Scrum sets 15m inside the Dragons half

22min

SCRUM ROOSTERS - De Belin drops it 8m from the Roosters line

21min

Flanagan had an overlap on the left, he chose to put in a grubber that the Roosters cleaned up. Dragons force a drop out and get the ball back.

20min

SCRUM DRAGONS - Tupou knocks on while trying to field a bomb, 13m from his own line.

19min

Drgaons get a 7 tackle set.

18min

SCRUM ROOSTERS - 10m from the Dragons line

18min

Gutherson ruled to have knocked on when trying to field a contested bomb 10m from the Dragons line. Dragons challenging. Challenge failed.

18min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Sandon Smith.

Smith converts

Roosters lead Roosters 12 - 6 Dragons
16min

Try: Roosters
Scored by Mark Nawaqanitawase. Kick to come.

Billy Smith switches from the left side to the right, then throws a ball behind Toia and bounces to Mark Nawaqanitawase, who fields the ball and just gets across the line for a try

Roosters lead Roosters 10 - 6 Dragons
13min

PENALTY ROOSTERS - They find touch on halfway.

12min

Smith bombs to his right winger, but its too deep and Finau takes it cleanly. 7 tackle set for the Dragons.

9min

Conversion: Dragons
Kicked by Valentine Holmes.

Holmes converts

Tied up at Roosters 6 - 6 Dragons
7min

Try: Dragons
Scored by Sione Finau. Kick to come.

Savala got absolutely poleaxed in a tackle by Holmes, who loses the ball backwards. Finau cleans up and races 80m to score.

Roosters lead Roosters 6 - 4 Dragons
6min

SCRUM ROOSTERS - 20m from the Dragons line. Suli rushed up and shut down the Roosters attack.

4min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Sandon Smith.

Smith out wide on the left side, converts

Roosters lead Roosters 6 - 0 Dragons
2min

Try: Roosters
Scored by Sandon Smith. Kick to come.

Roosters go to the left edge this time and Tupou gets put into space before he flicked the ball inside to Smith, who brushed off Gutherson and goes in for a beautiful try.

Roosters lead Roosters 4 - 0 Dragons
1min

Entertaining opening minute. Roosters make a brilliant break down the right edge. On the next play a kick went to Tupou on the left and he was taken into touch and everyone got together to have a cuddle.

Gutho kicks off

Referees & scorers:

Referee: Todd Smith

Touch Judges: Dave Munro, Ziggy Przeklasa-Adamski

Video Referee: Grant Atkins

SYDNEY ROOSTERS (46)
Tries: Sandon Smith (2), Mark Nawaqanitawase, Hugo Savala, Blake Steep, James Tedesco (2)
Conversions: Sandon Smith (5/6), Hugo Savala (1/1)
Penalty Goals: Sandon Smith (2/2), Hugo Savala (1/1)

ST GEORGE ILLAWARRA DRAGONS (18)
Tries: Sione Finau, Kyle Flanagan, Tyrell Sloan
Conversions: Valentine Holmes (3/3)