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Monday Morning Halfback: Round 7
Mon April 25, 2011
by Will Joseph
Happy Easter Monday to MMHB readers, here's hoping you've been spending time with the ones you love while soaking up a great weekend of footy.

Now to look back on a...charitable Easter Sunday. At least, two players in particular were exceptionally charitable.

As has long been our culture's custom, Easter is synonymous with the giving of eggs and other gifts. Yesterday, two grizzled veterans took the concept of gift-giving a little too far. Mark Minichiello and Alan Tongue both had moments that no doubt left them feeling like they scoffed one too many creme eggs when they woke this morning.

In the nation's capital, Tongue was essentially making his season debut, having played all of five minutes in the season opener before doing an A/C joint in his shoulder. Starting on the bench, he finally entered the field in the 49th minute to a warm welcome from the Canberra faithful.

Less than 3 minutes later, after a very harsh holding-down penalty on Kurt Gidley piggybacked the Raiders upfield, Josh Dugan made a half-break, spun inside of Jarrod Mullen and found Bronson Harrison on his inside. Harrison took the ball to the opposition 15 metre line, drew in the fullback and passed to a wide-open Tongue.

The Raiders captain initially looked like he'd caught the ball and looked certain to score. But before he properly corralled it, he looked to his left for the cover defense. And before you can say "six losses on the trot", the pill was spilt and the try went begging.

That the drop occurred in almost the exact same spot as Matt Orford's now-infamous scrum bungle versus the Titans three weeks ago was quite fitting, because this was yet another example of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. The Raiders would have gone up 18-6 after Tongue slid over beside the posts and the Knights, who had just scored a few minutes earlier through James McManus, would have been right back to where they started the second half (two converted tries down) with a massive mountain to climb.

Instead, it was a key turning point in the contest. Remember Darius Boyd's spectacular intercept try two weeks ago versus the Bulldogs which completely transformed the contest in his team's favour? Well, this was similar, except for instead of dooming the opposition, it doomed the Raiders.

After trading a few sets, Knights centre Junior Sau brought the ball out on 1st tackle in the 57th minute from his own 30. As he tried to step outside Josh McCrone, he lost the ball in the tackle attempt of the Raiders five-eighth, and McCrone scooped up the Steeden and raced away, looking a good chance to score with only Mullen coming across in cover to beat.

But referee Matt Cecchin incorrectly judged that McCrone had played at the ball and awarded a scrum to the Knights, letting them off the hook. Three plays later, a late-at-the-line ball from prop Evarn Tuimavave sucked in Tongue and put Matt Hilder through for a line-break. Only the 'worst kick of Kurt Gidley's career' (as pronounced by commentator Mark Braybrook) prevented the Knights from cashing in.

But you could just sense the trouble brewing for Canberra. On the next set, Jarrod Croker tried to free his arms for a miracle ball and fumbled. Five plays later, as Mullen hoisted a bomb on the Raiders' goal line, a lack of communication between Croker and Trevor Thurling caused both to contest the kick and knock it on, restarting the tackle count. However another uncharacteristic error from Gidley gave the local fans hope.

That hope evaporated three minutes later when consecutive Shaun Fensom ruck-penalties positioned Newcastle 30 metres out from the stripe. They worked their way to the right hand corner just 8 metres out on 3rd tackle, and Aquila Uate went into acting dummy-half.

Like he did so many times last season, Uate went for one of his trademark sorties, initially taking four steps toward the centre before throwing a lethal left foot step to cut upfield. A-defender David Shillington was so thrown off by the footwork, he decided to use a little footwork of his own, desperately throwing his leg out in a move that will surely earn him the ire of the citing commission.

The lazy foot-trip was no match for the bustling Fijian, who barged straight through and managed to ground the ball despite the full attention of marker Fensom and fullback Dugan. Gidley's conversion leveled the score at 12-all and the Raiders, who looked so lively and energetic while shutting the Knights out in the first half, suddenly had their heads down and hands on hips.

So it was no surprise five minutes later when Josh Miller put down a McCrone pass that was slightly behind him, handing over possession on his own 40. Three plays later, the proverb "fortune favours the bold" sprung to mind when a Wes Naiqama grubber from 10 metres out hit Croker in the shin, bounced into Daniel Vidot's knee, rebounded back off Croker's knee and finally dribbled through Vidot's legs, straight to a gleeful Uate who picked up the ball and fell over the line.

The go-ahead score sucked out what little life Canberra had remaining, and five minutes later Newcastle fullback Shannon McDonnell took full advantage of the home team's lethargy when he embarrassed three forwards up the middle of the ruck to clinch the game with a 70 metre runaway try.

Full credit to Tongue for immediately fronting for a post-match interview with former teammate Simon Woolford, where he characterised his blown opportunity as "pretty disappointing".

Even more disappointing is the six game losing streak the Raiders find themselves mired in, and with the next month's schedule showing the Tigers, Sea-Eagles, Storm and Bulldogs, the Raiders will be doing well to have more than two wins by the time their bye rolls around in Week 12.

Meanwhile, about 250 kilometres north of Canberra, the Eels hosted the Titans in a sloppy yet enthralling clash at Parramatta Stadium.

No doubt discouraged by Parra's lacklustre form as of late, just 10,000 fans came out to watch their team play. But the faithful few who showed up witnessed what may turn out to be one of the few bright spots in a bleak Eels season.

In a game marred by a 65% completion rate, 31 errors and no less than 8 balls dropped completely cold, it was Parramatta who prevailed courtesy of a little skill, a lot of luck, a never-say-die attitude and a mind-boggling gift.

Right from the 8th minute, when Steve Michaels opened the scoring by crashing through some soft right side defense, the Titans held the ascendancy. They gained almost 300 metres more than their counterparts and always looked the more likely team with ball in hand. Greg Bird and Mark Minichiello ran wild on the fringes, combining for 255 metres, 10 tackle-breaks and 4 offloads.

Five-eighth William Zillman had a whale of a game with 9 tackle-breaks and 2 line-breaks, including a stunning 30 metre solo effort where he pierced the marker and A-defender, evaded Luke Burt and Nathan Hindmarsh with a 360 degree spin and scored under the black dot.

But the Eels just kept hanging round like a pesky bush fly, unable to be swatted away. They did construct one nice try: in the 18th minute Justin Horo ran a convincing decoy line to freeze Bodene Thompson, allowing young sensation Jacob Loko to get on Thompson's outside and cross for his first career try.

However, it was mostly luck that allowed them to stay in the game. After a stone-cold-drop from Ash Harrison with just 90 seconds remaining in the first half, Jeff Robson launched a bomb for Luke Burt with less than a minute remaining.

Although Burt looked in good position to receive the kick, he would have had to contend with Gold Coast winger David Mead flying in to level him. Instead, the kick ricocheted off the left upright straight back into the arms of Robson, who scored under the posts to keep the Eels within striking distance, down 12-10 at the break.

Later in the 60th minute, after an ill-advised Daniel Mortimer chip led to a midfield change-over, the Titans were very unlucky not to go ahead 22-10 when a beautiful double cut-out ball from Scott Prince to Mead was adjudged forward. Replays showed it was a flat ball that went backwards out of the hands, prompting commentator (and former Eel) Peter Sterling to remark that Parramatta were "very fortunate".

Just five minutes later Gold Coast were hot on attack again after a Mortimer kick was partially charged down. Thompson advanced the ball inside the opposition 40 on just the 2nd tackle. Mortimer effected the tackle and was draped all over the Titans centre's back, so Thompson crawled forward a metre in an effort to free himself and play the ball.

Despite being something that referees were instructed to clamp down on, we've seen this exact scenario occur dozens of times already this year without so much as a warning from the officials, let alone a penalty. But Ashley Klein blew his whistle and the massive momentum swing resulted in Joel Reddy crashing over five plays later to bring the Eels within two points.

But try as they might, other than an astounding non-try to Etuate Uaisele that was correctly brought back due to Ben Smith being in front of the play-the-ball, the Eels couldn't muster any sort of threat to take the lead after their 67th minute try. In fact, they did extremely well not to concede another score in the 75th minute with only a superb Robson tackle 3 metres out stopping Minichiello from icing the game.

So in the 77th minute, the match seemed all but over with the Titans just needing to play sensible, ball-control footy to finish the game off.

Then, on 2nd tackle at his own 40, Minichiello experienced a brain explosion rivaling any we've seen this season.

It had been a great 15 metre run from "Ferrari" and he almost broke through the tackles of Hindmarsh and Casey McGuire. If only he'd been tackled straight away, then Luke Capewell wouldn't have had the opportunity to loom up on his outside and call for the offload...

However Minichiello couldn't resist the siren song of Capewell's call, and began to launch an absolute prayer of a pass. At the last second he realised the stupidity of his move and tried to reel the ball back in. But it was too late, the pill went to ground and a scrum was set.

2 minutes later, as you're no doubt already aware, Mortimer's Hail-Mary bomb was batted back into the arms of reserve prop Shane Shackleton and the Eels claimed a dramatic victory on the final play of the game.

Without their best player Jarryd Hayne, the Eels were no threat whatsoever to go the length of the paddock to score. Which makes Minichiello's extremely low-percentage offload attempt all the more perplexing. Titans coach John Cartwright remarked post-game that he was "cranky with the arrogance of where we turned it over" and that the pass attempt showed "total disrespect for the opposition".

It is this kind of play that will likely keep Mark Minichiello as one of the best backrowers to never represent New South Wales. Blessed with extraordinary strength, footwork and impact, his career has only been held back by his inability to contain himself.

While Blues selector Bob McCarthy proclaimed in last week's Daily Telegraph that Minichiello was "as good a chance as anyone else" to claim his maiden sky-blue jumper, it seems extremely unlikely that NSW will team the City Origin representative with virtual-certainties Bird and Paul Gallen, themselves both renowned for their impetuousness with ball-in-hand.

So the Eels snuck away with one they didn't deserve to win and lumped the Titans with an "L", in spite of them being the far superior side on the day.

But in the context of the season, this was a justified result. For Gold Coast had been very lucky to have two wins entering the match after a fluky Round 4 win in Canberra and a despicable Tigers performance handed them the lollies a week ago.

While Parramatta were overdue for a bounce and a call to go their way, after they were robbed blind of two early scores versus the Rabbitohs in Week 3.


The Single Worst Play of the Season

Last Wednesday, the South Sydney Rabbitohs announced that John Sutton had extended his contract with the club until the end of the 2014 season. Oft-criticised for his lackadaisical approach to the game, Saturday's match against the Bulldogs was Sutton's chance to repay the faith shown in him by Souths management and silence his many critics.

And five minutes in, he looked to be on pace for a decent showing after he put Dave Taylor over with a nice pass at the line to put the Bunnies in front early.

However we should expect this by now from Sutton, who since beginning his first grade career as a 19-year-old in 2004 has been Rugby League's ultimate tease.

The man just oozes with potential. His ability to free his arms and offload is rivaled by only a select few in the modern era. He possesses a monstrous left boot capable of raking off huge metres with little effort. And he flashes the ability to ball-play at the line when every so often he throws a ball that makes your jaw drop.

But for his vast oceans of promise, time and time again he has failed to deliver. He is renowned for disappearing for long stretches. He always seems to play best when his team is either far ahead or far behind. To sum him up, he's consistently inconsistent.

Every year, around this time, the inevitable "Sutton has matured, he's ready for rep footy" articles pop up in the media. But, like the Bunnies team he plays for, these stories are far more style than substance. There is a very good reason why Sutton has never achieved representative honours: his obvious lack of burning desire would be blatantly exposed in the cauldron of Origin/Test football.

So it was wholly unsurprising when Sutton decided his night was effectively over after 5 minutes and turned in an abhorrent, shameful performance that not even a Mother could love.

The horror started in the 12th minute. Canterbury half Trent Hodkinson had the ball 10 metres out from the Rabbitohs line and threw a dummy to Jamal Idris. The hulking centre was easily covered by his opposite man, Greg Inglis, yet Sutton chose to keep sliding away from the ballcarrier towards Idris until a large enough gap had been created between himself and inside man Sam Burgess for the nippy halfback to step through and level the scores.

Later in the 25th minute, Sutton's defensive ill-discipline cost him again. As the lone marker on a play-the-ball 45 metres out, his job was to patiently react to the dummy-half's movement. However, as Steve Turner scooped up the pill, Sutton couldn't resist making a futile lunge at the 'Dogs winger.

This left Turner an easy passage to scoot around the flailing five-eighth, behind the ruck in between the two A-defenders and make a simple draw-and-pass to Ben Barba for the Bulldogs' 2nd try.

Then in the 30th minute, Sutton spilled an Issac Luke pass that was slightly out in front of him, but should have been reeled in all the same. Straight off the back of this, Canterbury advanced to Souths' 25 metre line on the 3rd tackle.

Michael Ennis chose to attack the short-side (the Rabbitoh's left side) and passed to David Stagg, who turned the ball back inside to Idris. Sutton, who as marker was covering from the inside, got a face-full of palm from Jamal and slipped off the tackle.

After Idris shook off two more would-be tacklers, Sutton came back for a second bite at the cherry. His pathetic grab was met by another Idris fend, this time straight to his chest.

At this point, Idris offloaded infield to his support. With the play obviously centralising, Sutton dawdled towards the middle, being overtaken by two teammates in the process. He eventually arrived near the posts, but it was too late to stop Grant Millington who broke Sutton's weak tackle attempt to cross for Canterbury's 3rd try of the half.

Three Bulldogs tries; on all three, Sutton was directly responsible. The latter try was particularly obscene; on Fox's Super Saturday halftime show, Gordon Tallis couldn't help but snicker while describing the play as "as pretty soft from John".

Pretty soft was a pretty big understatement. It was by far the worst individual play of the season to-date. Three of Sutton's nine missed-tackles occurred on that play alone. And it epitomised his woeful lack of effort throughout his career.

It's public knowledge that Brad Fittler has reached out to Sutton on multiple occasions offering to help the talented footballer improve his overall game. Yet has this generous offer ever been accepted? No. Fittler's made it clear that all Sutton has to do is pick up the phone, yet the Fittler-clone refuses to take advantage of what would be undoubtedly beneficial to him.

That the "Bra Boy" turns down such a golden opportunity from one of the all-time greats of our game speaks volumes about Sutton's approach to Rugby League. To him, it is nothing more than a job, a way to make ends meet. And that's okay, if he's content with a career destined to never rise above the mediocre. Hell, I'm sure when his latest contract expires he'll bolt off to Super League and do better for himself than he has in the NRL.

But don't think for one second that he'll EVER get to pull on a jumper for state or country. There's no place at the highest level for those who don't love the Greatest Game of All, and it's blindingly apparent he doesn't.

Just as culpable in this sorry saga are the Rabbitohs. Despite being far more suited to the 13 jersey, Souths have continued to try and jam a square peg into a round hole by persisting with Sutton at stand-off. And the fact that they would extend his contract so early in the season is mystifying, particularly when fellow half Chris Sandow is off contract too.

Now, Sandow has more than his fair share of detractors, including yours truly. His laughable shoulder-charges have aged poor John Lang at least a decade in the last couple of seasons.

However, Sandow has the one key ingredient that Sutton will never have: an infectious enthusiasm for footy and a genuine love of the game. It manifests itself in the reckless shoulder-charges he loves to go for, despite giving up 30-40 kgs on most of his targets.

All Sandow needs is someone to channel his love for the game into the correct outlets. He needs a coach who will sit down with him for a couple of months during the offseason and get down to the nitty-gritty of fundamental Rugby League concepts with him.

With someone closely mentoring him, the Souths halfback has the ability to become a true superstar of the game. And if the rumours are true, Stephen Kearney will get the opportunity to mould Sandow into a premier playmaker at Parramatta over the next three seasons. Considering they currently have the worst halves combination in the NRL, count me as a massive supporter of the signing if it does eventuate.

As for Sutton and the Rabbitohs, they seemed destined to keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Souths fans can only hope that Michael Maguire has the sense to shift Sutton into the forwards and end the abysmal Sutton-as-playmaker experiment once and for all.


Field Goals

Beau Knows...he *ahem* blows


Beau Ryan is a funny dude. His footy show segments are good value and a long career in media awaits him after his retirement. Unfortunately, that retirement may be coming sooner than anyone ever expected.

Okay okay not really, I'm sure Beau's still got a few good years left in him. But it's undeniable that the 25 year-old Tigers winger has been in a prolonged form slump. Since about midway through last season, Ryan has shown a worrying tendency to commit basic errors. It got so bad at one point that Mark Geyer told him, via national television, to give up his media career and focus on footy for the time being.

Now I don't know if it needs to be that drastic, but it's clear something has to change because it's just not working for poor Ryan. Last Friday, his zero-tackle goal-line fumble just prior to oranges was recovered by Peter Wallace who scored to dig Wests a 24-6 hole which they couldn't climb out of. He had an opportunity to atone later in the 2nd half but couldn't get a finger on a Robert Lui toe-poke. He also failed to field a Wallace bomb in the 67th minute resulting in Darren Lockyer scoring three plays later.

Maybe Ryan would benefit on scaling back his media activities just a little. They may not be related to his on-field struggles, but his poor form does seem to coincide with the explosion of his media profile. The cameras will always be there for a charismatic talent like Beau, but footy will not. It can't hurt to ease back his television exposure a tad, just to see if it correlates with an improvement in his game.


The next Cam Smith? Not quite yet...

Andrew McCullough has massive wraps on him. The Australian Schoolboys rep was named Broncos Rookie of the Year in 2009, and has been touted by many as the eventual long-term replacement for Queensland hooker Cameron Smith.

And he may indeed get there. McCullough combines great defensive work-ethic with an acute sense of smell for the try-line: his goal-line dummies have become well known amongst rival NRL players.

But early in his career, McCullough has shown a penchant for making boneheaded errors at inopportune times. Versus the Tigers on Friday night, his poor ball security in the 3rd minute cost his a team a shot at points when Simon Dwyer forced the ball free as McCullough was shaping to pass 20 metres out. Four minutes later, he squandered another goal-line chance when he carelessly passed forward to Sam Thaiday. A further four minutes and the same result when Andrew Fifita hit his arm and McCullough fumbled the ball just 12 metres out from the tryline.

When was the last time you saw Cam Smith fluff three red-zone opportunities in the first 11 minutes? Never. From then on, McCullough managed to have a servicable game until the 78th minute when his last-tackle touch-finder sailed out-on-the-full, a dozen rows into the grandstand.


Be careful out on the roads because "Car Crash" is back

Anyone who watched the Eels edge home versus the Titans couldn't help but notice the tremendous impact Fuifui Moimoi had on the contest. Although he had a couple of errors, he more than made up for it with his trademark bulldozing carries. The slimmed-down Moimoi racked up a staggering 21 carries yesterday, with 5 tackle-breaks, a line-break and 26 tackles thrown in for good measure.

Moimoi has surpassed 100 metres in all six of his games this season. While he's not quite back to his career best 2009 form (when he was arguably the best prop in the world), Stephen Kearney has given the 31 year-old Tongan-turned-Kiwi a new lease on life. A New Zealand jumper surely beckons for the upcoming Trans-Tasman clash on the Gold Coast.


Save the Sharks

It was bad enough when star fullback Nathan Gardner went down against the Cowboys after less than five minutes with suspected ankle ligament damage. But when shining-light Albert Kelly suffered a suspected broken leg trying to tackle Gavin Cooper in the 32nd minute, it was curtains for Cronulla.

Maybe it was the football gods' way to punish Sharks supporters after only 7000 turned up to Toyota Stadium, despite their team having been perilously unlucky to lose the past two weeks.

Wade Graham was having a hard enough time being the dominant playmaker with Kelly around. By himself, he was hopelessly out of his depth. Many second half last-tackle opportunities ended up being taken by forwards such as Jeremy Smith, Josh Cordoba and Kade Snowden. Graham failed to step up the mark and the final 18 point victory margin was very flattering to the home side.

With by far their two best backs seemingly out for an extended period, Cronulla may be in real trouble. The vacant half spot will be filled by either Tim Smith or Scott Porter, the former's chances dealt a blow after he was fined $550 by police last Saturday night for remaining in the vicinity of licensed premises after being refused entry. Whichever option is chosen will be a large downgrade from the pleasantly surprising Kelly.


Fantasyland

Rising

Ben Ross

As the Rabbits forwards keep dropping like flies, one man stands tall. While names like Geddes, Stuart, Lowe and now Burgess falling by the wayside, the unlikely (based on the career-threatening neck injuries that have plagued his last two seasons) Ross continues to soldier on. A Dream Team bargain to begin the season ($84k), Ross is all but certain to secure a starting spot now that the starstruck Burgess is facing up to four months on the sidelines with a shattered left ankle. While Ross is set to rise to around $155k after his 42 vs the Bulldogs, this is still cheap for a guy who should churn out consistent early-mid 30 scores from here on out.

Casey McGuire
Played big minutes for the second week in a row as the only true hooker in the Parramatta 17. With Matt Keating out another few weeks and Indigenous representative Anthony Mitchell appearing to be out of favour, McGuire could be a nice quick-turnaround cash cow if he keeps hitting mid-late 40s.

Michael Gordon
Mimicking his stellar form in real life, Gordon is flying high in fantasyland after recording his 3rd consecutive 40+ score. After totaling a gargantuan 650 metres in the past 3 games in the custodian role, Gordon seems like the rare sure-thing in the CTW/FB position when you add his goal-kicking to the mix. While he may be displaced from fullback when the injured Lachlan Coote returns, he remains a tantalizing prospect in the meantime.

Falling

Shaun Fensom

Fantasy owners have vented their frustration with Raiders coach David Furner this season due to the chopping-and-changing of his young tackling-machine's minutes. After going the full 80 in Weeks 5 and 6, Fensom was a late switch to the bench versus the Knights. Although he came on in the 21st minute and played the remainder of the contest, the wide-running style of the Knights meant he only made 29 tackles, well below his usual tally. If you're going for overall honours in the Dream Team competition, hold tight on Fensom. Canberra have the best byes in the NRL and the lock's minutes and tackles will surely increase over Origin with both David Shillington and Tom Learoyd-Lahrs all but assured of Origin berths.

Scott Prince
The Titans skipper is set to bottom out at around $230k after posting a 31 in his team's gut-wrenching loss to the Eels yesterday. Prince is a proven Dream Team performer who has showed signs of form the past two weeks. With no potential for Origin duties, Prince may be an astute swap for those fantasy owners looking to get rid of the injured Albert Kelly.

David Stagg
Along with having his minutes kept down by coach Kevin Moore, Stagg is making far less tackles-per-minute in 2011 than in his previous two seasons playing lock for the bulldogs. Although his runs are slightly up, it's nowhere near enough to make up for his considerable tackle-count drop. If he's still on your team, dump him before you lose another $50k.


Who I like tonight:

Roosters-Dragons


After the recent Todd Carney fiasco combined with the fact they're still hurting from October's grand-final toweling, one might assume this pressure would galvanise the Roosters into delivering a great performance and take down the Dragons in the process. I just don't see it happening, I'm not sure that the Roosters have hit rock bottom yet. Plus it's hard to go past the uber-consistent St George, winners of 10 of their past 12 clashes with Sydney and traditionally dominant in Anzac day matches. Dragons by 10.

Storm-Warriors

Despite the Warriors having an above-league-average record in recent years when visiting Melbourne, the current gap in class between the two sides is far too much for the New Zealanders to overcome. Smith, Cronk, Slater and the newest addition to the big four, Widdop, will run absolutely riot. Storm by 22.


Anasta to miss City-Country clash
Mon May 3, 2010
by ABC Sport
Source: www.abc.net.au

Roosters five-eighth Braith Anasta has been ruled out of the City Origin team to play Country in Port Macquarie on Friday night.

Anasta sustained an ankle injury in the Roosters' last-gasp 12-8 win over the Tigers at Campbelltown Sports Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

Parramatta's Kris Keating will slot into the five-eighth role while Eels team-mate Joel Reddy has been called up to the squad.

Tigers utility Liam Fulton has been named as the team's 18th man.

Meanwhile, City coach John Cartwright says he is expecting a big performance from hooker Robbie Farah on Friday night.

Farah will line up against his main rival for the Blues' number nine jersey, incumbent hooker Michael Ennis.

Cartwright says it should be a mouthwatering contest between the pair.

"I don't know what the New South Wales Origin selectors are thinking, whether they're going back to last game last year or they're on a fresh slate," he said.

"But Robbie was outstanding in the City-Country game last year and he got the gig, so I'm sure that's in the forefront of his mind."

Source: ABC Sport

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Minichiello, Mark Statistics
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2011 NRL Telstra Premiership
Gold Coast Titans 
23 games; 3 tries, 12 points. 
		 
[View] Round 2 [19 Mar 11] L 12-40 v Melbourne (A). [BE]
[View] Round 3 [25 Mar 11] L 8-14 v Broncos (H). [SR]
[View] Round 4 [02 Apr 11] W 23-22 v Canberra (A). [SR]
[View] Round 5 [08 Apr 11] L 12-22 v Cowboys (A). [SR]
[View] Round 6 [15 Apr 11] W 20-14 v Wests Tigers (H). [SR] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 7 [24 Apr 11] L 18-22 v Eels (A). [SR]
[View] Round 8 [30 Apr 11] W 24-13 v Roosters (H). [SR]
[View] Round 9 [08 May 11] L 14-34 v Warriors (H). [BE]
[View] Round 10 [16 May 11] L 12-16 v Sea Eagles (H). [SR]
[View] Round 12 [27 May 11] L 6-28 v Canterbury (A). [SR]
[View] Round 13 [04 Jun 11] L 10-23 v Panthers (H). [SR]
[View] Round 14 [10 Jun 11] W 28-14 v Dragons (A). [SR] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 15 [17 Jun 11] L 8-31 v Rabbitohs (A). [SR]
[View] Round 16 [25 Jun 11] L 12-36 v Cronulla (H). [PR]
[View] Round 18 [08 Jul 11] L 6-22 v Warriors (A). [SR]
[View] Round 19 [15 Jul 11] L 10-30 v Broncos (A). [SR]
[View] Round 20 [23 Jul 11] L 20-28 v Cowboys (H). [SR]
[View] Round 21 [31 Jul 11] L 20-50 v Knights (A). [SR]
[View] Round 22 [06 Aug 11] W 20-16 v Cronulla (A). [SR]
[View] Round 23 [13 Aug 11] L 16-40 v Storm (H). [SR]
[View] Round 24 [20 Aug 11] W 26-18 v Canberra (H). [SR]
[View] Round 25 [29 Aug 11] L 10-39 v Wests Tigers (A). [SR] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 26 [03 Sep 11] L 12-32 v Parramatta (H). [SR]
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2011 City vs Country
City Origin 
1 games; 
[View] Place of Origin [06 May 11] L 12-18 v Country Origin (A). [SR]
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2010 NRL Telstra Premiership
Gold Coast Titans 
26 games; 8 tries, 32 points. 
		 
[View] Round 1 [14 Mar 10] W 24-18 v Warriors (H). [SR]
[View] Round 2 [19 Mar 10] W 19-18 v Rabbitohs (A). [SR]
[View] Round 3 [27 Mar 10] W 24-4 v Raiders (H). [SR]
[View] Round 4 [03 Apr 10] L 18-32 v Cowboys (A). [SR] 8 Pts; 2t
[View] Round 5 [09 Apr 10] W 20-16 v Storm (H). [SR]
[View] Round 6 [16 Apr 10] L 6-19 v Dragons (H). [SR]
[View] Round 7 [26 Apr 10] W 24-22 v Sea Eagles (A). [SR]
[View] Round 8 [01 May 10] W 38-24 v Panthers (H). [SR]
[View] Round 9 [09 May 10] W 38-36 v Knights (A). [BE] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 10 [14 May 10] L 6-28 v Broncos (A). [SR]
[View] Round 12 [31 May 10] L 16-30 v Roosters (H). [SR]
[View] Round 13 [06 Jun 10] L 24-28 v Raiders (A). [SR] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 14 [11 Jun 10] W 28-14 v Sea Eagles (H). [SR] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 15 [18 Jun 10] W 25-24 v Bulldogs (A). [LK] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 16 [27 Jun 10] L 16-24 v Knights (H). [SR]
[View] Round 18 [09 Jul 10] L 14-15 v Tigers (A). [SR]
[View] Round 19 [16 Jul 10] L 10-24 v Broncos (H). [SR]
[View] Round 20 [23 Jul 10] W 11-10 v Dragons (A). [SR]
[View] Round 21 [01 Aug 10] W 28-20 v Warriors (A). [SR]
[View] Round 22 [06 Aug 10] W 34-12 v Eels (H). [SR] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 23 [14 Aug 10] W 37-18 v Cowboys (H). [SR] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 24 [23 Aug 10] W 23-14 v Roosters (A). [SR]
[View] Round 25 [28 Aug 10] L 16-30 v Sharks (A). [SR]
[View] Round 26 [03 Sep 10] W 21-18 v Tigers (H). [SR]
[View] Finals Week 1 [10 Sep 10] W 28-16 v Warriors. [SR]
[View] Finals Week 3 [24 Sep 10] L 6-32 v Roosters. [SR]
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2009 NRL Telstra Premiership
Gold Coast Titans 
22 games; 3 tries, 12 points. 
		 
[View] Round 1 [15 Mar 09] W 34-20 v Knights (H). [SR]
[View] Round 2 [21 Mar 09] L 10-16 v Dragons (A). [SR]
[View] Round 3 [27 Mar 09] W 20-12 v Bulldogs (H). [SR]
[View] Round 4 [04 Apr 09] W 18-6 v Storm (A). [SR]
[View] Round 5 [11 Apr 09] W 14-10 v Cowboys (A). [SR]
[View] Round 6 [17 Apr 09] W 16-10 v Raiders (H). [SR]
[View] Round 7 [27 Apr 09] L 20-34 v Panthers (A). [SR]
[View] Round 8 [02 May 09] W 22-14 v Rabbitohs (H). [SR]
[View] Round 9 [10 May 09] L 18-23 v Knights (A). [SR]
[View] Round 10 [15 May 09] L 18-32 v Broncos (A). [SR]
[View] Round 11 [24 May 09] W 18-17 v Sea Eagles (H). [SR]
[View] Round 18 [13 Jul 09] W 18-12 v Eels (H). [SR]
[View] Round 19 [17 Jul 09] L 16-23 v Bulldogs (A). [SR]
[View] Round 20 [24 Jul 09] W 34-18 v Broncos (H). [SR] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 21 [31 Jul 09] L 18-34 v Cowboys (H). [SR]
[View] Round 22 [09 Aug 09] W 30-10 v Warriors (A). [SR]
[View] Round 23 [14 Aug 09] W 22-14 v Rabbitohs (A). [SR] 8 Pts; 2t
[View] Round 24 [23 Aug 09] W 20-10 v Sharks (H). [SR]
[View] Round 25 [29 Aug 09] W 36-24 v Tigers (H). [SR]
[View] Round 26 [05 Sep 09] L 4-38 v Sea Eagles (A). [SR]
[View] Finals Week 1 [12 Sep 09] L 32-40 v Broncos. [SR]
[View] Finals Week 2 [18 Sep 09] L 2-27 v Eels. [SR]
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2008 NRL Telstra Premiership
Gold Coast Titans 
16 games; 4 tries, 16 points. 
		 
[View] Round 1 [14 Mar 08] W 36-18 v Cowboys (H). [SR]
[View] Round 2 [24 Mar 08] L 12-30 v Dragons (A). [SR] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 3 [29 Mar 08] W 18-4 v Sharks (H). [SR]
[View] Round 4 [05 Apr 08] W 32-12 v Raiders (H). [SR] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 5 [11 Apr 08] W 28-20 v Eels (A). [SR]
[View] Round 6 [18 Apr 08] W 26-24 v Broncos (H). [SR]
[View] Round 7 [27 Apr 08] W 36-24 v Warriors (H). [SR]
[View] Round 8 [03 May 08] L 12-13 v Knights (A). [SR] 4 Pts; 1t (72)
[View] Round 10 [16 May 08] W 24-20 v Bulldogs (H). [SR]
[View] Round 11 [25 May 08] L 18-20 v Tigers (A). [SR]
[View] Round 12 [01 Jun 08] L 14-30 v Sharks (A). [SR] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 13 [09 Jun 08] W 18-0 v Storm (H). [SR]
[View] Round 15 [23 Jun 08] L 23-24 v Rabbitohs (A). [SR]
[View] Round 16 [28 Jun 08] L 22-26 v Dragons (H). [SR]
[View] Round 17 [04 Jul 08] L 14-34 v Sea Eagles (H). [SR]
[View] Round 22 [11 Aug 08] L 12-32 v Knights (H). [SR]
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2008 City vs Country
City Origin 
1 games; 
[View] Country v City [02 May 08] D 22-22 v Country Origin (A). [SR]
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2007 NRL Telstra Premiership
Gold Coast Titans 
24 games; 4 tries, 16 points. 
		 
[View] Round 1 [18 Mar 07] L 18-20 v Dragons (H). [BE]
[View] Round 2 [26 Mar 07] W 18-16 v Sharks (H). [BE] 4 Pts; 1t (56th)
[View] Round 3 [01 Apr 07] L 6-22 v Bulldogs (A). [BE]
[View] Round 4 [08 Apr 07] W 24-22 v Panthers (A). [SR]
[View] Round 5 [13 Apr 07] W 28-16 v Broncos (H). [SR] 4 Pts; 1t (27th)
[View] Round 6 [22 Apr 07] L 6-20 v Sea Eagles (A). [SR]
[View] Round 7 [29 Apr 07] W 38-12 v Eels (H). [SR]
[View] Round 8 [07 May 07] L 10-24 v Cowboys (H). [SR]
[View] Round 9 [13 May 07] L 18-24 v Roosters (A). [SR]
[View] Round 10 [18 May 07] L 10-28 v Dragons (A). [SR]
[View] Round 11 [26 May 07] W 25-18 v Rabbitohs (H). [SR] 4 Pts; 1t (4th)
[View] Round 12 [03 Jun 07] W 28-8 v Raiders (H). [SR]
[View] Round 14 [17 Jun 07] W 16-14 v Tigers (A). [SR]
[View] Round 15 [23 Jun 07] W 28-22 v Knights (H). [SR]
[View] Round 16 [30 Jun 07] L 6-22 v Warriors (H). [SR]
[View] Round 17 [06 Jul 07] L 18-19 v Broncos (A). [SR]
[View] Round 18 [15 Jul 07] L 10-56 v Raiders (A). [SR]
[View] Round 19 [20 Jul 07] L 12-36 v Bulldogs (H). [SR]
[View] Round 20 [28 Jul 07] L 14-20 v Rabbitohs (A). [SR]
[View] Round 21 [04 Aug 07] W 30-14 v Tigers (H). [SR]
[View] Round 22 [11 Aug 07] L 6-30 v Warriors (A). [DH]
[View] Round 23 [19 Aug 07] W 22-18 v Roosters (H). [SR]
[View] Round 24 [25 Aug 07] L 12-28 v Cronulla (A). [SR]
[View] Round 25 [02 Sep 07] L 6-50 v Storm (A). [SR] 4 Pts; 1t
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2007 City vs Country
City Origin 
1 games; 
[View] Place of Origin [03 May 07] W 12-6 v Country Origin (A). [BE]
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2006 NRL Telstra Premiership
South Sydney Rabbitohs 
19 games; 2 tries, 8 points. 
		 
[View] Round 6 [17 Apr 06] L 18-26 v Bulldogs (H). [BE]
[View] Round 7 [22 Apr 06] L 14-46 v Warriors (A). [BE]
[View] Round 8 [30 Apr 06] L 18-24 v Knights (H). [BE]
[View] Round 9 [06 May 06] L 14-38 v Storm (H). [BE]
[View] Round 10 [14 May 06] L 20-32 v Panthers (A). [BE]
[View] Round 11 [21 May 06] L 26-28 v Roosters (A). [LK]
[View] Round 12 [28 May 06] L 4-44 v Tigers (H). [LK]
[View] Round 13 [03 Jun 06] L 22-24 v Raiders (A). [SR]
[View] Round 14 [10 Jun 06] W 34-14 v Broncos (H). [SR]
[View] Round 15 [17 Jun 06] L 10-30 v Eels (A). [SR]
[View] Round 16 [25 Jun 06] L 0-66 v Warriors (H). [SR]
[View] Round 17 [01 Jul 06] L 14-16 v Cowboys (A). [SR] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 18 [09 Jul 06] L 28-38 v Dragons (A). [BE]
[View] Round 19 [15 Jul 06] L 20-26 v Sea Eagles (H). [BE]
[View] Round 20 [22 Jul 06] L 18-24 v Knights (A). [BE]
[View] Round 22 [06 Aug 06] W 32-26 v Panthers (H). [BE] 4 Pts; 1t
[View] Round 24 [20 Aug 06] L 16-38 v Sea Eagles (A). [DH]
[View] Round 25 [27 Aug 06] L 12-34 v Cowboys (H). [DH]
[View] Round 26 [03 Sep 06] L 18-52 v Tigers (A). [DH]
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2005 NRL Telstra Premiership
South Sydney Rabbitohs 
24 games; 5 tries, 20 points. 
		 
[View] Round 1 [12 Mar 05] L 12-24 v Roosters (A). [BE]
[View] Round 2 [20 Mar 05] W 49-26 v Eels (H). [BE]
[View] Round 3 [28 Mar 05] L 18-25 v Raiders (H). [BE]
[View] Round 4 [03 Apr 05] L 14-46 v Warriors (A). [BE]
[View] Round 5 [10 Apr 05] W 37-12 v Knights (H). [SR] 8 Pts; 2t (16th, 36th)
[View] Round 6 [16 Apr 05] L 6-36 v Panthers (H). [SR]
[View] Round 7 [24 Apr 05] L 14-48 v Sea Eagles (A). [SR]
[View] Round 9 [07 May 05] L 10-42 v Dragons (A). [LK]
[View] Round 10 [14 May 05] L 12-38 v Storm (H). [BE]
[View] Round 11 [21 May 05] L 16-34 v Warriors (H). [BE]
[View] Round 12 [28 May 05] L 12-36 v Broncos (A). [LK]
[View] Round 13 [04 Jun 05] D 21-21 v Bulldogs (A). [SR] 4 Pts; 1t (25th)
[View] Round 14 [11 Jun 05] W 44-6 v Sea Eagles (H). [SR]
[View] Round 15 [19 Jun 05] L 10-28 v Dragons (H). [SR]
[View] Round 16 [25 Jun 05] L 6-48 v Storm (A). [BE]
[View] Round 17 [03 Jul 05] L 16-52 v Eels (A). [LK]
[View] Round 18 [09 Jul 05] W 24-14 v Sharks (H). [BE] 8 Pts; 2t (53rd, 71st)
[View] Round 19 [16 Jul 05] W 16-14 v Cowboys (A). [BE]
[View] Round 20 [24 Jul 05] L 20-42 v Tigers (A). [BE]
[View] Round 21 [31 Jul 05] W 37-24 v Bulldogs (H). [BE]
[View] Round 23 [13 Aug 05] W 29-16 v Raiders (A). [BE]
[View] Round 24 [20 Aug 05] W 17-16 v Roosters (H). [BE]
[View] Round 25 [28 Aug 05] L 16-30 v Cowboys (H). [SR]
[View] Round 26 [03 Sep 05] W 26-22 v Sharks (A). [SR]
======================================================================================================
2004 NRL Telstra Premiership
South Sydney Rabbitohs 
1 games; 
[View] Round 1 [14 Mar 04] L 16-26 v Roosters (A). [SR]
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