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Brisbane continued on their winning ways with a lacklustre 22-10 win over South Sydney at Suncorp Stadium on Sunday.
The Rabbitohs missed a great opportunity to slip past Newcastle and the Bulldogs into outright eighth spot with one NRL round to play.
The loss leaves the three sides on 26 points with Newcastle and Souths to play for their season on Friday night. The Bulldogs’ only real chance is if they defeat Canberra and there’s a draw between the Knights and Rabbitohs.
The challenge ahead of Souths got a little harder when star centre Greg Inglis, who had a subdued opening 40 minutes, hobbled from the field in the 55th minute with what looked like an injured left ankle.
After an amazing weekend of wild brawls, send-offs and golden point results, the much-hyped clash proved a let down for the 40,094 crowd anticipating a cracker contest.
It didn’t help that Rabbitohs coach John Lang was forced into two late changes to two key positions with try-scoring whiz Nathan Merritt and playmaker John Sutton both scratched.
Sutton’s replacement James Roberts made the most of his call up, crossing for the opening try after just two minutes when halfback Chris Sandow caught Brisbane’s left side defence napping.
The first half was littered with errors and turnovers as both sides elected to throw the ball wide early rather than bash it up the middle.
Brisbane levelled at 6-6 in the 14th minute when a neat-stepping Alex Glenn left rival Shaune Corrigan stranded before going 12-6 up when he came down with a Darren Lockyer cross-field kick in the 25th minute.
The second half produced just one try to Brisbane utility Ben Te’o off a lovely Darren Lockyer pass.
Te’o, who has had a tough season, breaking his arm twice, got outside winger Dylan Farrell and then wrestled his way over the line for his second try of the season.
Lockyer didn’t have one of his best games, knocking on once, dropping the ball on two occasions and missing several tackles.
Corey Parker was again outstanding for Brisbane with 42 tackles and almost 200 metres carrying the football.
He was well backed up by fullback Josh Hoffman who had 216 metres for the game.
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August 29th 2011 @ 10:36am
Buttery said | August 29th 2011 @ 10:36am | Report comment
Not real happy with the video ref, Thaidays try was a clear case of obstruction, when a decoy runner crosses in front of the ball runner 1 meter from the line, the defender is unsighted & has no chance to stop someone the size of Thaiday, Thaiday was so close to the decoy runner he coild have kissed him on the ear, the video ref got it wrong
One other disappionting decision was Taylor being penalized for pushing the marker off, does he wait for the marker to remove his hand which has not been removed to slow down the play the ball, the Ref got it wrong again, the marker should have been penalized for not releasing the tackled player.
Once again Souths have been shafted.
August 29th 2011 @ 4:47pm
Gaz said | August 29th 2011 @ 4:47pm | Report comment
Buttery the word is belted not shafted, Souths never looked the goods at any stage. Broncs never got out of second gear. They didn’t need to! Always next year if Russel can afford some more superstars, the old ones just aren’t up to it but then again you get that if you don’t look after your juniors.
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August 29th 2011 @ 5:36pm
oikee said | August 29th 2011 @ 5:36pm | Report comment
They let one of their juniors go, Sandow, the best queensland local junior they had, at least they have Inglis, another local junior from the border.
The Broncos showed the bunnies the big stage, and tapped danced on their party shoes, who’s next, arh Manly thats right. Next.