Quentin LAULU TOGAGAE [
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Sat September 13, 2008
by Queensland Rugby League
Source: www.qrl.com.auA SEA of black and white swarmed over the North Ipswich Reserve today as the Souths Logan Magpies clinched the Queensland Cup with an epic 24-18 victory over the Ipswich Jets.
In an amazing match, the Magpies sealed the win in the final minute of play when Kyle Lodge broke out of a desperate tackle to snap an 18-18 deadlock.
Referee Justin Eastwood went to the video referee, who ruled a fair try despite protests of a double movement.
An army of Magpies supporters invaded the ground before the conversion had been taken, sparking wild scenes as the proud club celebrated a maiden Queensland Cup premiership
"This is one of the best feelings ever. I'm just so pumped right now," said star Magpies fullback Quentin Laulu Togagae.
"Even at the end, I knew we could get it done. We just had to believe in ourselves."
Magpies assistant coach Mark Tookey praised his team's courage.
"We only had one interchange left with about 15 minutes to go," Tookey said.
"There were three blokes who kept telling us they have to come off. I just sent the message out, 'I don't care if you're about to die, you're staying on'.
"I've never had premiership success at this level and it's just a great achievement for everyone in the club."
Jets skipper Danny Coburn heaped praise on the Magpies in his post-match speech and thanked his own players for a tremendous season.
The Jets paid the price for a sloppy first-half.
Ipswich made a nightmare start, with prop Aaron Sweeney losing the ball in the opening tackle of the game.
The Magpies made the Jets pay when Cy Lasscock sliced through to score.
Souths Logan pulled further in front in the seventh minute when crafty hooker McKanah Gibson snuck over from dummy half.
Tim Cannard landed the conversion to make it 10-0.
The Jets first real scoring opportunity came after 22 minutes when Kurtis Lingwoodock received a perfect inside pass and set sail for the try-line.
But the video referee ruled that Lingwoodock had lost the ball over the line.
Just as the Jets looked to be gaining the ascendancy, Souths Logan winger Matt Templeman intercepted an Ian Lacey pass and sprinted 50m to score.
Cannard converted for a 16-0 lead.
Souths Logan's ferocious defence continually repelled the Jets, who repeatedly spilt the ball close to the line.
The Magpies took an 18-0 lead into half-time after Josh White kicked a penalty goal.
The massive contingent of Ipswich fans who packed into the North Ipswich Reserve finally had something to cheer about in the 44th minute when Michael Ryan sliced through to score.
The momentum was firmly with the Jets when Donald Malone scored in the corner from a lucky grubber kick deflection.
Josh Lewis raised the flags, although a furious Souths Logan camp claimed the ball had missed to the left upright.
It proved to be a crucial ruling as the scores were soon locked up when big prop Aaron Sweeney scored an outstanding solo try and Lewis converted.
Both sides traded field goal attempts but it was not a one-pointer which decided the result.
The Magpies set up for a field goal in the final minute, but caught the Jets napping when Alby Talipeau elected to run the ball.
The ball found its way to Lodge, who did the rest to win the game.
Talipeau received the Duncan Hall Medal as the game's best and fairest player.
SOUTHS LOGAN 24 (Kyle Lodge, Cy Lasscock, McKanah Gibson, Tim Cannard tries; Tim Cannard 2, Josh White 2 goals) def IPSWICH 18 (Michael Ryan, Donald Malone, Aaron Sweeney tries; Josh Lewis 3 goals).
Venue: North Ipswich Reserve
Crowd: 6,000
Duncan Hall Medal: Alby Talipeau (Souths Logan)
Report Source:
www.qrl.com.auSun June 15, 2008
by Queensland Rugby League
Source: www.qrl.com.auAruguably 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.
News Source:
www.qrl.com.au
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 2007 Queensland Cup
Souths Logan Magpies
7 games; 4 tries, 16 points.
[View] Round 1 [17 Mar 07] W 36-20 v Central Comets (H). [FB] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 2 [24 Mar 07] L 0-40 v Young Guns (A). [WG]
[View] Round 3 [01 Apr 07] L 14-34 v Dolphins (H). [FB]
[View] Round 4 [07 Apr 07] L 18-36 v Aspley Broncos (A). [WG] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 6 [21 Apr 07] L 24-38 v Burleigh (H). [FB] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 7 [28 Apr 07] W 20-10 v Easts Tigers (A). [FB] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 10 [20 May 07] L 12-16 v Wynnum Manly (H). [FB]
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