2017 NRL Rd 17: Teams and Game Day

[Matt]

Thaiday drops one cold.
Bronx on tilt

[Matt]

Harris nearly has the offload for Slater.
He would have scored too.
That was zero tackle after the drop

[Matt]

Hunt with a speculator kick for Pearson.
Pearson regathers but cut down by Slater.

Couple of plays later
Hunt steam rolls Slater to score

[Matt]

BRONCOS 6
STORM 14
22nd minute

Kahu converts the Hunt try

[Matt]

McGuire failed the HIA.
Gone for tonight

[Matt]

Cronk with a good touch finder down the shortside. Class play

[Green eyed Mick]

If we had the same attitude in defence and half the kicking game of Melbourne we'd be unstoppable.

[LP Raider]

In typical fashion, Benji plays out of his skin against the Raiders, then passes to no one the next week.

[Matt]

Bronx with an awful last play.
2 flick passes and no kick.

[Matt]

Munster with the cross field bomb.
Vunivalu leaps.
He comes down with it.
Ref says try.
Bunker agrees.
TRY #2 for him tonight

[Matt]

BRONCOS 6
STORM 18
30th minute

Smith converts the Vunivalu try

[Matt]

Funicane back to Cronk.
Long scraggy half break.

Next play
Storm spin it right.
Shoulder charge by Moga on Slater.
Penalty

[Matt]

Funicane dies with it on the last.
Weird mistake by Smith to give it to him there

[Matt]

NAS held on too long. Penalty Bronx

[Matt]

Hunts kick ricocheted off Slater and goes out.
Not played at.
Storm ball

[Matt]

Slaters kick goes dead.
Tried to copy Cronk.
Didnt come off.
7 tackle set Bronx

[Matt]

Penalty Bronx.
Offside

[Matt]

Smith with a big hit on TPJ.
Then Munster creams Hunt on the next one.
Kaufusi with a try saver on the next.

Now its 6 again.

[Matt]

Terrible offload.
Harris comes up with it.
Now he gets a penalty

[Matt]

Munster with a bullet kick to JAC.
JAC stumbles.
That was a try saving stumble.
Bronx lucky not to conceed on the halftime break.

[Matt]

HALFTIME
BRONCOS 6
STORM 20

[Matt]

Meter eaters
Vunivalu 79
Smith 68
Pearson 58
Funicane 58

Tackle machines
McCullough 25
Funicane 22
Gillett 21

NRL Fantasy flyers
Hunt 42
Smith 38
Kaufusi 31

[Matt]

Storm to kickoff the 2nd half

[Matt]

Half break by Scott

[Matt]

Cronks kick keeps bouncing.
Bounces dead.
7 tackle set Bronx

[Matt]

Hot potato by Bronx.
TPJ at the heart of it.

[Matt]

Chambers lost it

[Matt]

Slater with a try saver on Pearson off the scrum

[Matt]

Players falling over everywhere chasing the Hunt kick.
Harris holds someone back. Its Roberts.
No Bronx player takes it cleanly.
Ref says no try.
But saw the penalty.
Bunker agrees.
Harris is in the sin bin.

[Matt]

FORWARD PASS!!!
Oh dear.
Hunt throws it forward into a Storm player who touched it before Pearson grabbed it and dived over.

[Matt]

Smith finds touch.
Chews clock.
Smart move

[Matt]

Smith INTERCEPT

[Matt]

Nicholls on. Former Raiders player

[greeneyed]

Ridiculous call to bin Tohu Harris for that.

[Matt]

Slater puts a foot in goal.
Draws the 7 tackle set