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Game over and Canterbury win 24:20. Great game.

Burton's gone for one... and scored.

He's blossoming now he's back in proper Rugby.

If Nawaqanitawase has scored that, that's ridiculously good.

Burton sends up a kick so high it comes down with a packet of complimentary airline peanuts on it. Mark Nawaqanitawase fails to field it and the Dogs take the lead!

Back to back Bulldog tries and the game is very much back on. CBY 10:14 SYD

So far, Mark Nawaqanitawase has scored one try and almost made another with an outrageous flick pass to Toia, who just failed to touch down correctly. CBY 0:8 SYD

Some chat by the comms of KPP maybe heading to the Tigers.

Knights with a try at last, and quite a good one too.

KPP binned! A stupidly obvious shove after the tackle.

And Australia's entry was affected by not being very good.

Out of the final: Australia Czechia Georgia Ireland Montenegro Serbia

While we wait for the votes, we have a few performances from the COVID-cancelled acts from 2020. A genuinely nice touch, giving them their big night after all.

Australia: "Milkshake Man" is (oh, ease my aching sides) a very limited novelty act in retro clothes. He's so wacky! Or possibly zany! Urgh. Montenegro's Flying Circus: Huge tonal swing now, as Nina's one of those throbbing-voiced Eurodivas, apparently wearing a meringue. Quiet at the start, but everyone knew she was about to unleash some Big Notes. Ireland: A song about Laika the Undead Space Dog. Oh dear, she has one of those ickle-girl voices - she'll be doing the John Lewis Christmas advert with a slow acoustic cover of Napalm Death's You suffer, but WHY?, then. Might do okay, this. Latvia: Rylan reckons this is one for the girls and the gays. I'm neither, but this is kinda cool. Interesting harmonies, and they look a bit like the Water Amazons from Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone. #OneForTheTeenagersThere Armenia: He's oily, topless and sporting very silly trousers, singing about being a survivor while running on a treadmill. Parg Life! Austria: JJ starts off in wispy falsetto and goes cod-operatic, before hitting the Euro-Dance turbochargers for the finale. Batcrap crazy, and this is the kind of thing that could go down very well. United Kingdom: The song's a bit of a stylistic mongrel, but they're selling it well. How the Euro-voters will take it, I have no idea. Greece: I, Klavdivs! Another tonal swing as this is a slow-burner with folky overtones. But there's some jarringly intrusive artificial-sounding percussion. Lithuania: An earnestly floppy-haired dirge by teenagers dressed in gulag chic. "Plucky" (it's the law) Malta: A technicolour overdose of camp. The staging is in danger of overpowering the song and performance though. Ooh, Spacehoppers at the end! Georgia: Another dramatic balladeer in (then out of) a meringue, but this time with Cossack dancers. A properly good singer, too. I liked that. France: Louane appears to be in the basement of a mill, given the amount of grain falling on her. The song is... lucky it doesn't have to qualify. Denmark: This should wake people up after France. A dancey kind of thing that sounds like an awful lot of previous Eurovision entries. Czechia: Keen on showing off his vocal range, mullet and cloak. The song's a bit of an afterthought. Luxembourg: Their second year back in Eurovision, after a three-decade hissy fit. A bouncy pop effort considered to be a bit of a dark horse if they make the final. Israel: A multi-lingual ballad with little else to distinguish it. Germany: A neon cello kicks things off, followed by a lot of "Ba-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la" One of the dancers looks like a young Kate Humble. Serbia: The artist currently known as Prince, plus some very intense-looking dancers. The song's a bit ho-hum. I can't recall much about it, and it has only just ended. Finland: The last song of the night is another plus-size diva, which is a bit of a theme this year. I can see this doing well, just by being OTT and very singalong/clapalong.

Great noisy crowd, considering the torrential rain. They cheered all the way through.

I don't listen to any of the songs before the semi-finals unless I stumble upon them by accident, so I haven't yet given the UK entry any attention. But a left-hand column finish would be nice.

Actor Joe Don Baker, aged 89.

NSW 26:6 QLD at full time, as the Blues win the Origin series.

NSW 12:6 QLD at half time.

Filthy weather for this match. Despite the Maroons scoring first, the pressure's mainly come from the Blues, whose second try has just given them the lead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umarell

We have to use it at work, and every time a large file gets uploaded or moved, it kills my bandwidth stone dead. Even with the settings on the lowest upload speed.

More insanity from Japan.

When it finally happened, it was like a hostage video.