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2018 NRL Round 25: Teams and Game Day

RABBITOHS V TIGERS
Thursday 30 August, ANZ Stadium, 7.50pm

Rabbitohs: 1. Alex Johnston, 2. Campbell Graham, 3. Greg Inglis, 4. Dane Gagai, 5. Robert Jennings, 6. Cody Walker, 7. Adam Reynolds, 8. Thomas Burgess, 9. Damien Cook, 10. George Burgess, 11. John Sutton, 12. Angus Crichton, 13. Sam Burgess

Interchange: 14. Hymel Hunt, 15. Cameron Murray, 16. Jason Clark, 17. Dean Britt
Reserves: 18. Braidon Burns, 19. Tyrell Fuimaono, 20. Tevita Tatola, 21. Matt McIlwrick

Tigers: 1. Moses Mbye, 2. David Nofoaluma, 3. Esan Marsters, 4. Mahe Fonua, 5. Kevin Naiqama, 6. Benji Marshall, 7. Luke Brooks, 8. Matthew Eisenhuth, 9. Robbie Farah, 10. Ben Matulino, 11. Chris Lawrence, 12. Michael Chee-Kam, 13 Elijah Taylor

Interchange: 14 Alex Twal, 15. Sauaso Sue, 16. Robbie Rochow, 17. Josh Aloiai
Reserves: 18. Jacob Liddle, 19. Luke Garner, 20. Tyson Gamble, 21. Malakai Watene-Zelezniak

WARRIORS V RAIDERS
Friday 31 August, Mt Smart Stadium, 6pm

Warriors: 1 Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, 2 David Fusitu’a, 3 Peta Hiku, 4 Solomone Kata, 5 Ken Maumalo, 6 Mason Lino, 7 Shaun Johnson, 8 James Gavet, 9 Issac Luke, 10 Agnatius Paasi, 11 Adam Blair, 12 Tohu Harris, 13 Simon Mannering

Interchange: 14 Jazz Tevaga, 15 Isaiah Papali’i 16 Bunty Afoa, 17 Gerard Beale
Reserves: 18 Leivaha Pulu 20 Anthony Gelling 21 Chris Satae, 22 Karl Lawton

Raiders: 1 Brad Abbey, 2 Nick Cotric 3 Michael Oldfield, 4 Joseph Leilua, 5 Jordan Rapana 6 Blake Austin, 7 Sam Williams 8 Dunamis Lui, 9 Josh Hodgson, 10 Shannon Boyd, 11 Iosia Soliola, 12 Elliott Whitehead, 13 Josh Papalii

Interchange: 14 Emre Guler, 15 Junior Paulo, 16 Siliva Havili, 17 Luke Bateman
Reserves: 18 Jack Murchie, 19 Liam Knight, 20 Makahesi Makatoa, 21 Aidan Sezer

STORM V PANTHERS
Friday 31 August, AAMI Park, 7.55pm

Storm: 1. Billy Slater, 2. Justin Olam, 3. Cheyse Blair, 4. Curtis Scott, 5. Josh Addo-Carr, 6. Cameron Munster, 7. Brodie Croft, 8. Jesse Bromwich, 9. Cameron Smith, 10. Tim Glasby, 11. Felise Kaufusi, 12. Joe Stimson, 13. Dale Finucane

Interchange: 14. Kenneath Bromwich, 15. Christian Welch, 16. Tui Kamikamica, 17. Sam Kasiano
Reserves: 18. Ryan Hoffman, 19. Jahrome Hughes, 20. Albert Vete, 21. Ryley Jacks

Panthers: 1. Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, 2. Josh Mansour, 3. Waqa Blake, 4. Tyrone Peachey, 5. Christian Crichton, 6. James Maloney (capt), 7. Nathan Cleary, 8. Trent Merrin, 9. Wayde Egan, 10. Reagan Campbell-Gillard, 11. Viliame Kikau, 12. Isaah Yeo, 13. James Fisher-Harris

Interchange: 14. Tyrone May, 15. Moses Leota, 16. Corey Harawira-Naera, 17. James Tamou
Reserves: 18. Sione Katoa, 19. Jack Hetherington, 20. Kaide Ellis, 21. Tyrone Phillips

KNIGHTS V DRAGONS
Saturday 1 September, McDonald Jones Stadium, 3pm

Knights: 1. Nick Meaney, 2. Ken Sio, 3. Sione Mata’utia, 4. Cory Dennis, 5. Shaun Kenny-Dowall, 6. Jack Cogger, 7. Mitchell Pearce (capt), 8. Herman Ese’ese, 9. Danny Levi, 10. Daniel Saifiti, 11. Jamie Buhrer (capt), 12. Aidan Guerra, 13. Mitchell Barnett

Interchange: 14. Tom Starling, 15. Chris Heighington 16. Jacob Lillyman 17. Josh King
Reserves: 18. JJ Felise 19. Pasami Saulo 20. Brock Lamb 21. Luke Yates

Dragons: 1 Matt Dufty, 2 Nene MacDonald, 3 Zac Lomax, 4 Tim Lafai, 5 Jordan Pereira, 6 Kurt Mann, 7 Ben Hunt, 8 James Graham, 9 Cameron McInnes, 10 Leeson Ah Mau, 11 Tyson Frizell, 12 Tariq Sims, 13 Jack de Belin

Interchange: 14 Jeremy Latimore, 15 Jai Field, 16 Blake Lawrie, 17 Luciano Leilua
Reserves: 18 Reece Robson, 19 Patrick Herbert, 20 Hame Sele, 21 Jacob Host

TITANS V COWBOYS
Saturday 1 September, Cbus Super Stadium, 5.30pm

Titans: 1. Alexander Brimson, 2. Anthony Don, 3. Konrad Hurrell, 4. Brenko Lee, 5. Phillip Sami, 6. Kane Elgey, 7. Ash Taylor, 8. Jarrod Wallace, 9. Nathan Peats, 10. Ryan James (capt), 11. Kevin Proctor, 12. Keegan Hipgrave, 13. Jai Arrow

Interchange: 14. Mitch Rein, 15. Moeaki Fotuaika, 16. Jack Stockwell, 17. Will Matthews
Reserves: 18. Bryce Cartwright, 19. Jai Whitbread , 20 Leilani Latu , 21 Brendan Elliot

Cowboys: 1. Ben Hampton, 2 Kyle Feldt, 3 Justin O’Neill, 4 Kane Linnett, 5 Gideon Gela-Mosby, 6 Te Maire Martin, 7 Johnathan Thurston, 8 Matthew Scott, 9 Jake Granville, 10 Jordan McLean, 11 Gavin Cooper, 12 Coen Hess, 13 Jason Taumalolo

Interchange: 14 Ethan Lowe 15 John Asiata 16 Shaun Fensom 17 Scott Bolton
Reserves: 18 Francis Molo 19 Jake Clifford 20 Javid Bowen 21 Shane Wright

EELS V ROOSTERS
Saturday 1 September, ANZ Stadium, 7.45pm

Eels: 1. Jarryd Hayne, 2 Bevan French, 3 Michael Jennings, 4 Clinton Gutherson, 5 George Jennings, 6 Corey Norman, 7 Mitchell Moses, 8 Siosaia Vave, 9 Reed Mahoney, 10 Tim Mannah, 11 Marata Niukore, 12 Brad Takairangi , 13 Tepai Moeroa

Interchange: 14 Jaeman Salmon, 15 Kane Evans, 16 David Gower 17 Oregon Kaufusi
Reserves: 18 Ray Stone, 19 Cameron King, 20 Josh Hoffman 21 Greg Leleisiuao

Roosters: 1 James Tedesco, 2 Daniel Tupou, 3 Latrell Mitchell, 4 Joseph Manu, 5 Blake Ferguson, 6 Luke Keary, 7 Cooper Cronk, 8 Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, 9 Jake Friend, 10 Siosiua Taukeiaho, 11 Boyd Cordner, 12 Isaac Liu, 13 Victor Radley

Interchange: 14 Nat Butcher 15 Zane Tetevano 16 Mitchell Aubusson 17 Ryan Matterson
Reserves: 18 Lindsay Collins, 19 Sean O’Sullivan 20 Paul Momirovski 21 Kurt Baptiste

BULLDOGS V SHARKS
Sunday 2 September, ANZ Stadium, 2pm

Bulldogs: 1 Will Hopoate, 2 Brett Morris, 3 Josh Morris, 4 Kerrod Holland, 5 Reimis Smith, 6 Lachlan Lewis, 7 Matt Frawley, 8 Aiden Tolman, 9 Michael Lichaa, 10 David Klemmer, 11 Josh Jackson, 12 Rhyse Martin, 13 Adam Elliott

Interchange: 14 Jeremy Marshall-King, 15 Danny Fualalo, 16 Ofahiki Ogden, 17 Greg Eastwood
Reserves: 19 Francis Tualau, 20 Fa’amanu Brown, 21 Renouf Toomaga 23 John Olive

Sharks: 1 Valentine Holmes, 2 Sosaia Feki, 3 Josh Dugan, 4 Kurt Capewell, 5 Edrick Lee, 6 Matt Moylan, 7 Chad Townsend, 8 Andrew Fifita, 9 Jayden Brailey, 10 Matt Prior, 11 Luke Lewis, 12 Wade Graham, 13 Paul Gallen

Interchange: 14 Scott Sorensen, 15 James Segeyaro, 16 Aaron Woods, 17 Jason Bukuya
Reserves: 18 Joseph Paulo, 19 Ava Seumanufagai, 20 Jesse Ramien, 21 Kyle Flanagan

BRONCOS V SEA EAGLES
Sunday 2 September, Suncorp Stadium, 4.10pm

Broncos: 1. Darius Boyd, 2. Corey Oates, 3. James Roberts, 4. Jordan Kahu, 5. Jamayne Isaako, 6. Anthony Milford, 7. Kodi Nikorima, 8. Addin Fonua-Blake, 9. Jake Turpin. 10. Sam Thaiday, 11. Alex Glenn, 12. Tevita Pangai Jr, 13 Josh McGuire

Interchange: 14. Patrick Mago, 15. Joe Ofahengaue, 16. Korbin Sims, 17. David Fifita
Reserves: 18. Sam Tagataese, 19. Todd Murphy, 20. Kotoni Staggs, 21. Jack Bird

Manly: 1. Tom Trbojevic, 2. Matthew Wright, 3. Moses Suli, 4. Brian Kelly, 5. Brad Parker, 6. Dylan Walker, 7. Daly Cherry-Evans (c), 8. Addin Fonua-Blake, 9. Manase Fainu, 10. Martin Taupau, 11. Joel Thompson, 12. Shaun Lane, 13. Jake Trbojevic

Interchange: 14 Trent Hodkinson, 15. Kelepi Tanginoa, 16. Jack Gosiewski, 17. Taniela Paseka
Reserves: 18. Frank Winterstein, 19. Tevita Funa, 20. Tom Wright, 21. Toafofoa Sipley
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Any chance we can get a translator for Inglis for his halftime interview?
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Ivan Cleary is the biggest con-artist in the NRL.

Thieved a career for 12 years where he's done **** all, and still gets considered underrated.
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My god. Sutton is the worst referee in the game.
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gergreg wrote:My god. Sutton is the worst referee in the game.
I think he’s the worst referee there has ever been. I suspect he is EDIT.
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gergreg wrote:My god. Sutton is the worst referee in the game.
This is only data up until May by the looks, I don’t know an easy way to check from then onwards but it’s definitely more of the same

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Thank god JT’s career is over.


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You mean the immortal in waiting
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At times the send off for JT has been a bit over the top but the NRL needs to be better at acknowledging some of the greats of the game. So i actually see it as a step in the right direction.
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What an embarrassment the NRL refereeing is. “Accidental knee contact”, no penalty to Manly.
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Gee doesn't Josh Dugan look stoooooopid with that dumb hair cut ?
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Great ball from DCE
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How many head high tackles/swinging arms by the Broncos are the referees going to ignore?
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Is there a more unlikeable player in the NRL than McGuire? He's the bloke that will smack talk a player who is writhing in agony on the ground. Always has that **** eating grin. When an opposition player makes an error he's the first one there to pat him on the back or give him a shove. Surely the NRL turns a blind eye if Gallen was to plant one on him?
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gergreg wrote: September 2, 2018, 5:43 pm Is there a more unlikeable player in the NRL than McGuire? He's the bloke that will smack talk a player who is writhing in agony on the ground. Always has that **** eating grin. When an opposition player makes an error he's the first one there to pat him on the back or give him a shove. Surely the NRL turns a blind eye if Gallen was to plant one on him?
I hate McGuire.

They turned a blind eye to Nate Myles repeated dog acts ... until Gallen had to sort him out and it literally fixed the problem immediately. Will never happen today, but gee the NRL are dropping the ball. Pretending they are doing the right thing by player welfare and a clear case of a player sliding in to stop a try with his knees, collects Tom Turbo flush in the head and the call from the refs is “accidental knees, play on”. Every day is the week, that is a clear penalty.

Tom Turbo was rubbed out for the rest of the game due to it.

Oh and, Adam Blair is a massive dog too.
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yeh raiders wrote: September 2, 2018, 8:01 pm
gergreg wrote: September 2, 2018, 5:43 pm Is there a more unlikeable player in the NRL than McGuire? He's the bloke that will smack talk a player who is writhing in agony on the ground. Always has that **** eating grin. When an opposition player makes an error he's the first one there to pat him on the back or give him a shove. Surely the NRL turns a blind eye if Gallen was to plant one on him?
I hate McGuire.

They turned a blind eye to Nate Myles repeated dog acts ... until Gallen had to sort him out and it literally fixed the problem immediately. Will never happen today, but gee the NRL are dropping the ball. Pretending they are doing the right thing by player welfare and a clear case of a player sliding in to stop a try with his knees, collects Tom Turbo flush in the head and the call from the refs is “accidental knees, play on”. Every day is the week, that is a clear penalty.

Tom Turbo was rubbed out for the rest of the game due to it.

Oh and, Adam Blair is a massive dog too.
I actually agree with the decision. It was clearly accidental, however the precedent is there for it to be a penalty. But these are the rules that are thrown out the window when the Broncos play. Early in the game a bomb was put up and the red head winger for manly knocks on in a contest for the ball with Oates but clearly you could see that Oates actually impedes the Manly bloke while in the air. Again the knock on was the right call, but again if the roles were reversed Oates gets a penalty. I've seen him awarded penalties this year in the exact same scenario.

Broncos face a massively out of form Dragons this week. If they were playing any other side the NRL would have chosen Klein and Sutton to referee. My guess is they will win easy this week then in the 2nd week Sutton will get the Broncos game.
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I agree that it was probably an accident but it was careless, he knee’d him in the head, potentially fractured his cheekbone and that’s simply a penalty every day of the week.
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Totally. That would have been a penalty in any other game. How many times have we seen the referees awarding penalties for dangerous contact despite acknowledging that the contact was accidental. I recall Rapana accidentally collecting Mansour in the cheekbone while doing nothing but contesting for the ball in the air but was still penalised for it. The ref said "...yeah, but it was still dangerous contact!"

And Oates actually grabbed Brad Parker's arm while Parker was still in air which forced the drop ball but somehow that was not considered tackling in the air!!?? Yet how often do we see a penalty being awarded for a tackling in the air when the player catching the ball simply landed on the chaser who wasn't even trying to make a tackle but happened to be in the landing zone. Oldfield got penalised in the controversial loss against the Sharks for being a 'blocker' when all he did was turn his shoulder slightly and made the most innocuous contact with the chaser who dramatised the fall.

The inconsistencies in how the rules are interpreted and applied, and so often in favour of the Broncos, are baffling and frustrating.
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Speaking of inconsistencies, was chatting with gangers snr on Father’s Day who said that in the Dragons game during one of the pivotal tries a player who knocked on in the act of making a tackle was ruled not to have played at it! Will have to check it out.

It’s amazing how often the officials clearly don’t know the rules. Idiots.

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