NRL Match Thread Finals Week 1 - Sunday : Souths v Knights

[Graham]

Game 1 - Friday

UK kick off time 10:50 am

Australian kick off times:

Finals Week 1
Fixture	Venue	TV	Kick-off
Friday, Oct 2
Panthers vs Roosters	Panthers Stadium	Nine/Fox	7:50 PM

[Graham]

Panthers 15 game winning streak is the longest winning streak heading into a Finals series since Jack Gibson’s 1975 Roosters team, which won 19 straight.

Roosters have now made the Finals for a fourth consecutive season, their best run since qualifying for nine straight seasons from 1996-2004.

[Graham]

The finalised teams for this game:

[Graham]

Josh Mansour needs one try to equal Brad Izzard on 73 tries and equal fifth on the Panthers all-time try scorers list.

[Graham]

Just time to enter our tipping competition  if you want to add an extra element to the weekend’s NRL fun.

Just name the four winning teams if you want:

 

[Futtocks]

Morning!

Guess what? A Morris is the first to score.

[Graham]

Morning Futtocks

[Farmduck]

I missed the tipping cut-off but I'm too far behind to catch the leaders now.

Dumb by Kikau. He'll miss a game for that.

Then Freddie Lussick scores, 10-0

[Graham]

If Roosters get another then that'll be it - finito. kaputski, diddlydun4

[Futtocks]

Panthers 0:10 Roosters after 10 minutes.

[Graham]

From a neutral point of view the Panthers need to get some more ball and score!

[Futtocks]

Freddie Lussick looks about 14 years old.

[Graham]

What a stunning start!

[Graham]

Everything going Roosters' way. They have started soooo fast and pressurised the Panthers

[Graham]

They needed Morris in touch there!

[Graham]

Amazing and quite worrying for me here in the UK to see the crowd packed so close together!

[Graham]

Mansour is in at the corner, but of course it is checked by the bunker.

yes a try, no mistake.

[Graham]

The game needed that I reckon.....

10-4 Rooster.

KTC from touchline

[Farmduck]

2 minutes ago, Graham said:

Amazing and quite worrying for me here in the UK to see the crowd packed so close together!

We only had 18 cases nationwide yesterday including 11 off a Filipino ship in WA.

[Graham]

Voss and Ennis on the microphone for me here

[Graham]

This is excitement in a bottle!

Try judged for Panthers under the sticks by Nathan Cleary.

Ball judged lost backwards earlier. 

[Graham]

17 minutes left of the first half and it's now

10 all

[Futtocks]

Cleary goes over by the posts. Try given.

[Futtocks]

Cleary does it again!

[Graham]

Cleary the man at full speed and great pick up. Wow.

He's having a great season and is on fire in this game.