Smith from in front, converts
Radley offloads inside to Tedesco who draws Gutherson before passing inside to Savala who strolls in to score.
Smith out on the right sideline, just misses the conversion
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.
Holmes converts from in front
Sloan goes in for a simple try
SCRUM DRAGONS - Leniu dropped it cold, 5m shy of halfway.
SCRUM ROOSTERS - 10m from their own line
PENALTY DRAGONS - 10m from the Roosters line
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.
SCRUM DRAGONS - 30m from their own line
SCRUM DRAGONS - 10m from their own line
PENALTY ROOSTERS - They find touch 30m from the Dragons line
Captains Challenge. Roosters challenge ruling of knock on near the Dragons line. Bunker says no.
Smith takes a shot at penalty goal and nails it.
PENALTY ROOSTERS - first tackle after finding touch and Guler gets pinged for a high tackle
PENALTY ROOSTERS - They find touch 25m from the Dragons line
Smith converts.
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.
Sloan makes a break down the right wing and turns it inside but the ball is knocked on,
Holmes from wide on the left converts.
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.
Savala converts.
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.
Savala kicks a penalty goal.
PENALTY ROOSTERS - Ilias touched a Roosters player in the back leading up to the disallowed try. Roosters take a shot at the 2.
A bomb has been contested by the two fullbacks - it came out and Toia regathered and scored. Bunker ruled no try.
Off to the bunker to see if the Roosters have scored
Gutherson throws a pass to a shadow and the Dragons turn it over 10m from the Roosters line
Before the scrum sets, the Ref calls over Sandon Smith and puts him in the bin for a high shot on Lachlan Ilias
SCRUM DRAGONS - Roosters with accidental offside.
back to back set restarts for the Dragons
Cook makes a break and pinches 35m
Set restart - a Leilua brainfart late in the set.
Smith converts from in front
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.
Smith to the right of the posts and 20m out, adds the 2.
PENALTY ROOSTERS - Dragons offside. Roosters going to take a shot at 2
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
SCRUM DRAGONS - 20m from the Roosters line
PENALTY DRAGONS - They find touch 36 metres from the Roosters line
Damien Cook coming off for an HIA
SCRUM DRAGONS - Savala drops the ball in a tackle. Scrum sets 15m inside the Dragons half
SCRUM ROOSTERS - De Belin drops it 8m from the Roosters line
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.
SCRUM DRAGONS - Tupou knocks on while trying to field a bomb, 13m from his own line.
Drgaons get a 7 tackle set.
SCRUM ROOSTERS - 10m from the Dragons line
Gutherson ruled to have knocked on when trying to field a contested bomb 10m from the Dragons line. Dragons challenging. Challenge failed.
Smith converts
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
PENALTY ROOSTERS - They find touch on halfway.
Smith bombs to his right winger, but its too deep and Finau takes it cleanly. 7 tackle set for the Dragons.
Holmes converts
Savala got absolutely poleaxed in a tackle by Holmes, who loses the ball backwards. Finau cleans up and races 80m to score.
SCRUM ROOSTERS - 20m from the Dragons line. Suli rushed up and shut down the Roosters attack.
Smith out wide on the left side, converts
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.
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)