Round 13
Souths Logan Magpies 34 d. Easts Tigers 14

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Location: Australia > Queensland > State/Metropolitan Level Competition: Wizard Queensland Cup

Classy Fullback Makes Raid
Sun June 15, 2008
Source: www.qrl.com.au

Aruguably the best performance of Quentin Laulu-Togagae's career has steered South Logan to a 34-14 victory over the Easts Tigers.

But the Magpies may not have their star fullback for long as the Canberra Raiders begin to circle the New Zealand product.

The electric custodian, known as 'Q', was simply brilliant, delivering perhaps the best individual performance of the Wizard Cup season so far.

Laulu-Togagae stepped, dummied, jinked and sprinted all day long, making a mockery of Easts defenders and earning high praise from his coach Paul Bramley.

"Q was simply outstanding and I spoke to Neil Henry (Canberra Raiders coach) this morning and told him exactly that," said Bramley, while watching a potential young recruit play on the Gold Coast.

"He is in the mix now (for NRL duty). He's had a good month of football and the Raiders guys when they meet during the week will certainly be discussing him."

The other crucial ingredient to Souths Logan's win was their ability to keep their line in tack from a mountain of Easts offloads.

The Tigers resembled the Auckland Warriors of 2002, as they threw the ball around with immense skill.

Wallace Solomona, making his first Wizard Cup appearance of the season, led the way, producing a series of impossible offloads.

But Souths simply held their line and waited for the offload to occur, before pouncing.

"When I watched the video of their last two performances they were offloading a lot, so I spoke to the guys about trying to shut down the offloads and then just holding your line when it happens," Bramley revealed.

"They followed that pretty well and even though they got a lot of balls away they weren't able to do much with it."

Two of Easts three tries were scored out wide from scrum plays, a sign of how resilient Souths were in the middle of the park

But it wasn't so comfortable in the first half, when Easts were going blow for blow with Souths.

But an intercept try to Magpies centre Shea Moylan in the 43rd minute seemed to break Easts resolve and the Tigers began falling off tackles.

SOUTHS LOGAN 34 (Quentin Laulu-Togagae, Jack Reed, Shea Moylan, Phil Dennis, Brad Cross, Josh White tries; Marc Herbert 5 goals) def EASTS TIGERS 14 (Luke Archer, Matt Lockyer, Jason Connors tries; Trent Henrick goal) at Meakin Park.

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