NRL Match Thread - Finals - Week 1 - 2021

[JohnM]

Don't panic!

[Farmduck]

Tyrone Peachey misses the field goal.

less than 5 mins left.

[Farmduck]

77min: Sam Walker nails the drop goal.

 

Chooks 25 - 24

[Graham]

Nervous times at the end of this game. 
Who will win?

Will Farmduck’s groceries arrive before or after the final whistle?

What if there’s extra time?

[Futtocks]

Oh my, that was nearly the winner!

[Farmduck]

Roosters win.

 

FT:  Roosters  25  Titans  24

[Dave T]

Christ, what a finish! 

First NRL game I've watched for a while, great stuff. 

[Graham]

Roosters win with the slimmest of margins. Couldn’t have been a closer finish. I thought Titans were going to win at the last gasp but … no.

[JohnM]

What a finish!!!!!!!!! Wife's just run in to see what I'm screaming about!!!

[Dave T]

Whilst the fullback did well, that Gold Coast left flank should have finished that break. The 2nd rower should have kept space between him and the winger and drew the fullback. Instead he ate into his space forcing him to cut inside. 

Give the winger the chance to finish that. 

[dkw]

Gold Coast managed to bomb tries both sides of the pitch in 60 seconds, incredible.

[Farmduck]

[Farmduck]

I refer again to Fifita - 9 runs. It's like they're under orders - don't give him the ball until you're in the 20m zone.

[Farmduck]

I have to go out and meet the drivers because I need an electronic beeper to open the gate and de-activate the land mines and machine gun nests. Fortunately they revised the time to 7:45 - 8:45 now.

[Farmduck]

Souths get an early lead with a Reynolds penalty goal in the 4th minute.

2-0

[Farmduck]

Crowd: est.17K

I might contact the NRL and tell them to have the GF at my place. My suburb is now 90% 1-jabbed and 80%+  2-jabbed.

[JohnM]

A Taffe gaffe.

[Farmduck]

8min: Crichton try from a Cleary banana kick then a Momirovski pass from over the dead ball line.

[Futtocks]

That's one for the highlights reel.

[Farmduck]

1 minute ago, JohnM said:

A Taffe gaffe.

What do you think the origin of that name is? Dutch? Afrikaans, maybe?

[Farmduck]

Cleary converts.

Panthers 6 - 2

[Graham]

Cleary shaping up to run this game.

Panthers absorbed the early Souths pressure and then …

[Farmduck]

Eyes'n'hoof to HIA, coincidentally right on Kikau time.

[Farmduck]

25min: Codey Walker try.

[Farmduck]

Reynolds converts

Souths  8 - 6