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Melbourne Storm 0 Canterbury Bulldogs 0 – Storm keeping it simple here. They go right on the 3rd tackle and make a little space. Center it back up and they kick on the last on the half way line. Turner brings it back for the Bulldogs 20 meters out from his own line.
Melbourne Storm vs Canterbury Bulldogs: NRL live scores, blog
Melbourne Storm 0 Canterbury Bulldogs 0 – So Bulldogs 40 out from the Storm line. They are looking good up the middle. Pritchard makes good meters down the left. They come back right and they are 10 meters out. They drop the ball though and Slater cleans it up on his goal line.
Melbourne Storm vs Canterbury Bulldogs: NRL live scores, blog
Melbourne Storm 0 Canterbury Bulldogs 0 – Melbourne struggling to make meters here as the Storm look to spread it left. They center it back up through Hoffman and Cronk kicks within his 40 but hits Barba on the chest. he gets out to 35 from his own line and gets a penalty for holding down.
Melbourne Storm vs Canterbury Bulldogs: NRL live scores, blog
Melbourne Storm 0 Canterbury Bulldogs 0 – The Bulldogs just working it out of their own end of the field. Keeping is simple early on. They kick through Ennis from just inside his 40 and Slater takes it 15 hour from his own line.
Melbourne Storm vs Canterbury Bulldogs: NRL live scores, blog
Melbourne Storm 0 Canterbury Bulldogs 0 – The Storm in the field now. They will be kicking off……and we are underway!
Melbourne Storm vs Canterbury Bulldogs: NRL live scores, blog
Melbourne Storm 0 Canterbury Bulldogs 0 – So the Bulldogs run out onto the field. perfect footy weather.
Melbourne Storm vs Canterbury Bulldogs: NRL live scores, blog
Sam Kasiano may have picked up an injury in the warmup. Will keep you updated.
Melbourne Storm vs Canterbury Bulldogs: NRL live scores, blog
I’m here in the interactive studio ready to roll! Enjoy the game!
Melbourne Storm vs Canterbury Bulldogs: NRL live scores, blog
I think of the Bulldogs are going to be any chance in this game Frank Pritchard needs to put in a man of the match performance.
Melbourne Storm vs Canterbury Bulldogs: NRL live scores, blog
Hope everyone’s has a good Saturday afternoon so far. We are about 20 minutes away from kickoff here in the match between the Storm and the Bulldogs. Really interesting game this. Can’t wait to see how the Bulldogs go after their terrible performance last week.
Melbourne Storm vs Canterbury Bulldogs: NRL live scores, blog
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Congratulations to the Manly Sea Eagles! Great win tonight!
Manly Sea Eagles vs Penrith Panthers: NRL live scores, blog
Sea Eagles 30 Panthers 0 – A great win for Manly at home, a terrible performance away for Penrith. Showed a real gulf between these two teams. Very different goals this season.
Manly Sea Eagles vs Penrith Panthers: NRL live scores, blog
Sea Eagles 30 Panthers 0 – As for Penrith, that was pathetic really. They just didn’t turn up for a tough contest. Too soft, they looked terrible when they went wide. Up the middle they were not in the contest. Only Coote can really hold his head high.
Manly Sea Eagles vs Penrith Panthers: NRL live scores, blog
Sea Eagles 30 Panthers 0 – Hard to pick Manlys best. Jason King and Daley Cherry-Evans were both brilliant. Lyon set up a couple of tries, Williams got the job done. Just a great win for the Manly club after dealing with so many injuries. They crowd was over 14,000 too.
Manly Sea Eagles vs Penrith Panthers: NRL live scores, blog
Sea Eagles 30 Panthers 0 – Penrith kick the ball deep. Kite runs it back. On that last run it looks like Panthers Kevin Kingston has hurt his forearm or shoulder. That sums up Penriths night really. That was a great win by Manly. Dominant and composed. Game over!
Manly Sea Eagles vs Penrith Panthers: NRL live scores, blog
Sea Eagles 30 Panthers 0 – Lyons conversion is off the upright. No goal! 45 seconds left.
Manly Sea Eagles vs Penrith Panthers: NRL live scores, blog
Sea Eagles 3- Panthers 0 – 77 minutes gone. manly have completed 32/36 sets of six. Thats says it all. They are ino the Panthers half now. Evans chips it for himself, kicks again, and Watmough scored on the right hand side of the field. Now the score line really shows the difference between these two teams. Kick to come.
Manly Sea Eagles vs Penrith Panthers: NRL live scores, blog
Sea Eagles 26 Panthers 0 – penrith knock the ball forward from the short kick off. Manly scrum feed 30 meters out from their own line. More good meters up the middle. They have dominated the Panthers pack. They get to the Panthers 40 meter line and kick deep. Coote juggles it but its play on. Get get its 20 out from his own line with an elusive tackle.Penrith just dont even looked bothered right now. They get to the half way line and Weston maked 15 meters with a good run. Walsh puts up a bomb and Burns knocks it on. Manly have the ball 12 out from their line.
Manly Sea Eagles vs Penrith Panthers: NRL live scores, blog
Sea Eagles 26 Panthers 0 – Lyons conversion is brilliant. Between the sticks! The six longest minutes of my week coming up here…
Manly Sea Eagles vs Penrith Panthers: NRL live scores, blog
Sea Eagles 24 Panthers 0 – Oh its a try. Not even a question. A good wingers try by Williams.
Manly Sea Eagles vs Penrith Panthers: NRL live scores, blog
Sea Eagles 20 Panthers 0 – manly punching holes in the middle. They go right again and David Williams may have scored in the corner again. We are going to the video referee.
Manly Sea Eagles vs Penrith Panthers: NRL live scores, blog
Sea Eagles 20 Panthers 0 – A good set by Manly. DCE kicks deep and gets a 40/20. With all their stars available, this would have been a 40 point slaughtering. 8 minutes left, Manly have the scrum 20 meters out from the Panthers line.
Manly Sea Eagles vs Penrith Panthers: NRL live scores, blog
Sea Eagles 20 Panthers 0 – Short kick off for Penrith. They are showing urgency now. They get the ball to the Sea Eagles 20 meter line. They go left and Manlys defense is solid. Back to mid field now. They look to go right and Walsh is tackled on the 5th. Burns bombs to the left hand side and the Wolf Man takes an easy catch.
Manly Sea Eagles vs Penrith Panthers: NRL live scores, blog
Sea Eagles 20 Panthers 0 – Lyons conversion is successful!
Manly Sea Eagles vs Penrith Panthers: NRL live scores, blog
Melbourne Storm 0 Canterbury Bulldogs 0 – The Dogs cross half way and on the last are 40 out from the Storm line. They kick down the left hand side of the filed and find touch about 8 out from the Storm line.
Melbourne Storm vs Canterbury Bulldogs: NRL live scores, blog