Sydney City Roosters vs. Western Suburbs Magpies | Round 2, 1997 | Condensed Match | NRL

The Roosters host the Magpies during the 1997 season.

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row looking to do the damage for the magp up front Jack ell good the man on screen I guess many rooster supporters probably wondering how Darren juny found himself in reserve grade today he probably is entitled to feel a little peeved with in all seven newcomers to The Roosters outfit compared to their lineup from last year leads with a first kick of the day now that was I think from just outside the 40 clearly on his own goal line first there as a series L good tackle been a very strong start from the magpies that’s what ronus would have been looking for a high shot there will be penalized Harvey Howard in fact it might be meser Cherry meser being called out the aggressive young [Applause] player see there Robert Miles coming in off the wing and taken up around the head penalty will be sufficient the magp have come up with a good Chase on that Andrew leed’s kick Dy halfen he was hit hard and their tackle of goule to the right side with langmack good ball the leads the mag Pi here comes the first try mcginness it’s a forward pass but the way they work The Blind Side was very impressive oh they bombed the try western suburbs a couple of unmarked players on the outside magnificent pass here from Paul langmack putting Leeds into the hole bad defense and if Leeds had have looked a little bit earlier he could have popped the pass to mcginness and given him a free run it was Hermanson now now for his front row partner Larry good shot on Larry good offload as well though goule with a step off the left made 5 m JIS was up to make the tackle Shear some good service there for ricketson ricketson is off the left the pass has floated forward fielded by fitler and he caught the high shot in the meantime as well and there’s plenty of concern for Freddy fitler well this time it was Harvey Howard who came up with the high tackle the mistake had been made the pass went forward fitler took the bouncing ball and then Harvey Howard cleaned him up tremendous run from Luke ricketson straight over the top of Willie [Applause] Newton carrying the ball in the left arm trying to keep it free the basketball pass back inside well and truly forward and there’s The Swinging y from Howard and the problem for fitler was that he he’ relaxed he had heard the whistle and that’s a pretty pretty harsh one no doubt about the first point of contact back right around the cheek of Brad fitler and he’s still [Applause] down W is calling cribs left right and Center langmack is with him at the moment fitler gaining his senses only now they want an enthusiastic start but he’s just overstepped the line yeah well that’s a thing you can’t do against a side like Sydney City that’s the third time that they are going to be penalized and they’re making it easy for Sydney City to come out of their own end but there’s TLA interesting to see that he’s picked it lock this week I was talking to Desi a little bit earlier they put him at half back to start with but he admitted that he is not an organizer he’d rather get in and do the hard work so good to see Desi Hasler at the Lock forward position for western suburbs so Brad fidler The Roosters Captain leads the ground courtesy of the medic cab he’s with the roosters trainer Ronnie Palmer I think it’s a very very tough call against J is good here again from Sydney City take them 11 out Hermanson it was to the 10 m line now with Lowry there’s the follow up they’ve gone high this could be a send off Daman Kennedy he’s G he’s off Kennedy is off for a high tackle after only 10 and 1 half minutes Damen Kennedy has been sent from the field and you got to go with First Impressions he’s collected him right across the face Jason Larry following up from the good one from Terry Herman the second rck clar taking the ball towards the line and Damen Kennedy has poxed him he’s in the 11 Jersey right armor to Clumsy one and it probably looks better than it actually was from front on this will look worse oh that’s a bad tackle that has come over the top well over the top of the shoulder oh and there’s a high tackle from The Roosters going over the top well checked up there by Eddie Ward it was the 14 Julian Troy that crept up a little high Pearson has gone without it the roosters have possession it’s Troy with it for the roosters they’re now 25 out from the West line here is ricketson again a high shot and called out again well it’s just careless from the mag pies this one is a loose arm over the top and chrises claiming that the player ducked into the tackle Luke ricketson and I think he’s got some some cool for argument the step oh he did swing the arm take that [Applause] back Target area was half a meter of really where it should have been now inside Rooster’s territory Mesa Newton he’s only got two men on his outside a lot of players around the center of the rck the center field bomb on clear never took his eyes off the football a very competent player Ivan clear and I’m just wondering whether the the touch judge from this side has come on for some interference in the the kick Chase obviously the the far touch judge had a better view but Steve georgees who was one of the outside men chasing the kick was taken wide and certainly interfered with I think by Jason Sinclair now georis going to the left there you can see the furthest two players one knocked to the ground that was Geor alas right in front of the the touch judge on The Far Side yet we’ve had the near side touch judge come in and deal with the matter big baseball M went out there was a couple of couple of Western suburb support players in good position and now another high tackle chane rigon will result in a further penalty against the Black and [Applause] Whites well Hasler cops the caution here now langmack will come over I mean w has to basically say look another high tackle and you have to go it is five or six for the match now L Ma and W going to finish this match either the best of friends or the the worst of enemies now he’s going to caution all the western suburbs I don’t think I have ever seen this on a football field oh certainly haven’t he’s calling them all out this is like an under Sev game it is a committee meeting we’ve got the Wingers coming in Paul langmack directing traffic out there he does that pretty well well he’s putting on the theatrics Andrew luds can’t be bothered coming he’s back on the 30 m line but we’ve got the 11 western suburbs players out there keeping in mind Kennedy is already off the field having a shower if I see two coins go up in the air I’m out of this box [Applause] andry I have never seen that happen ever here’s the tackle from Hasler that’s the way he’s been tackling for the past five or six seasons Ed that so 20 M out the roosters working this rum Nathan wood is now on at halfback here is ell good how weak it would be if he suddenly ends up being the first try scorer here it is with Nathan wood working now for Shira standing wide Dale sheir he gets there himself they may claim double move at the Western suburb side but there was plenty of momentum going the way of Dale sheir he gets the first four-pointer and it’s 10- n CL dou movement but to no avail and Willie Newton gave possession back from the scrum how fickle this game can be plenty of SP in the old leg still for Dale sheir he sliced through the outside Western sub Defender staying with their men the one-on-one situation exploited by Dale Sher there you can see the Gap opened up between mcginness and the Inside Man and Shear close enough to the line to get across Rowdy sheir 31 years of age also Julian Troy rotating the three front rowers Shir again oh Dale sheir he’s left them clutching a thin air over halfway Dale sheir then runs into a bumping tackle and up he gets oh it’s vintage stuff from rowdy [Music] out now the mag Pi meser is back on Newton oh Newton he’s just lost the football looking for a long ball just come back with it look for a long Ball but he threw a pretty short [Applause] one oh that’s we’ve got a knock on there Willie Newton made a pretty ordinary mistake in the first and he’s back up with this effort looking to get it out wide and the ball’s just popped out got to feel for it but it is a touch comical Nesha Newton this time safe with a pass to Howard there was a certain amount of caution with the pass from Willie Newton that time wasn’t looking to fire it out at any great speed Newton then langmack chance for the magp is better than a chance for mcginness a 12-man side against 13 they found a yawning Gap langmack planting one for Ken mcginness he’s throwing some beautiful passes in this game Paul langmack but I also give some credit to one of his support players who really didn’t come into the play but he he put the defense in two minds langmack catches the football there as we freeze it I think that this player who’s come through opened up the hole out wide this play continues we see they slide straight through in fact it was the big front rower out there who just caught the the eye of the defensive player Matt Singh had come in a little bit that opened it up he’s got enormous speed mcginness and Jim Smith lurking out there for the mag pies he helped in that try without even touching the football the Black and Whites comes back for Newton last tackle Newton now they would be sweating on a rooster’s error clear is there he comes up with a ball but West get the penalty the Chaser georis was taken out of the action for the second time in the match Shane rigon got him this time the number 16 and it’s a good decision because there’s no way known that rigon was concerned where the football was coming down he just wanted to make sure that he was getting rid of one of the Chasers there’s George Alis there’s the shoulder George Alis ends up on the ground kick for goal here from this infringement from Shane rigon [Applause] benetti again he had Hermanson in support he goes himself and cops a big tackle from Shane Millard 5 m out from the western suburbs line now for sheir kicking that was last tackle for the roost this is a high ball from D Shira leads again is impeccable at the back jez a quality player Andrew Leeds he a joy to watch isn’t he I don’t think there’s anybody safer under the high ball mha Lang Ma bump his way through the defense Troy was there first and Shir is throwing a punch in the tackle and will be penalized saw a signal from I think it was Mesa saying send him off I think that may be a little bit too much but there was definitely a swinging arm there they may have watched last night’s game with Neil teny off for the [Applause] punch this time it was the elbow being used the forearm being used eight points in the first half langmack oh good tackle that is a great tackle from Julian Troy just stopped him Cole and looked like a forward pass from dummy half allowing Howard to steam onto it make 15 M that is the margin they are from the tri line Kevin mcginness georgalis then for Pearson 5 m out from the roosters line Ellis was tackled for the roosters 25 out here’s Young met and put an Abrupt end to his run by John scandales shear up no one to pass inside onto the ball they come Jason Sinclair he throws a forward pass inside it was juggled but it was definitely forward J was spectacular at the end of it but the roosters have blown a try and straight over the top of Kevin mcginness a strong charge there looked like it was a tri money and in fact he was over the line when he thrown the [Applause] pass juny What A Catch pinch neck around the shoulder and a pinch nerve around the shoulder and neck it’s caused him an awful lot of problems in his time at St George air he wasted no time from dummy half on the restart tried to sneak one in Down The Blind Side last play here for the roosters wood AC Crossfield looking to link up with Hermanson he’s called for a ship the wood goes under the posts but Hermanson had taken out one of the West Defenders yeah the referee got that one right quick restart from Dez Hasler D the return and kicking early was Pearson I thought Pearson may have lost control of the football and was forced to kick and then well here’s a penalty to western suburbs for the late challenge is it on Pearson and I think that Steve George Alis is in a lot of trouble out there he was the face coming through he really lashed out at the football and made contact I think with the roosters player and that would have hurt field of play he probably could have got the roosters for offside again Mesa tries to borrow his way from dummy half they don’t really have the troops on the right side of the field they come back to the left with Newton long ball has to be intercepted but knocked down by elgore we’ll take a break still right in front of the roosters posts Pearson he has a go closer to the r and now 5 m out from the line neser langman can he come up with a Money Ball for leads channels back in field and well tackled by GLE they’ve used up five Newton kicking this time for the wing of aeri Lang Lang is steaming through Weston subers with mcginness they’re penalized Eddie Ward rules a penalty pushing players chasing pushing and this is a very interesting decision they were on side there’s no doubt about that it was a perfect kick from Willie Newton let’s just see if there’s any interference on the Winger oh gee I I don’t know I I think it’s a try well I can’t get pushing anywhere in the challenge for the football AI Lang never took his eyes off the ball the only the only think I could see there maybe was a play on Matt sing but 14 points to six inside the final 6 minutes right now Aira pointing look he’s trying to direct the runners Sinclair along for Clear ‘s good comes back infield got the call from Sinclair it wasn’t a good pass from Jason Sinclair and we’ll take a guess on who came up with the football El good has it now oh well hasler’s conceded the penalty I reckon El Good’s probably let go go of the football Ward was calling on El good to play it Hasler thought well there’s the ball I might as well pick it up H back the tacklers Shir dummy again from Dale for Sinclair a one-handed there’s the sort of quality work Sinclair can come up with and El’s good in his first game in the tricolors has scored for the roosters but Jason Sinclair has shown a glimpse of what he is capable of with a little one-hander that’s why we’ve seen Sinclair play state of origin lovely little pass opened up the try line for Jack El good and he’ll feel very good about that his first game in the new colors of the roosters and this is the the penalty that went against western suburbs very hard to is is picking up the football if it is free and Jack El good certainly did not have control and Desi Hazard doesn’t blow up too often on a footb ball field but he’s given the the touch judge a serve and Dale Shear threw the dummy inside couple of plays committed there two plays committed with Jason Sinclair flicking one out the side and that gave them the overlap he’s played well D Shir Sinclair it’s not an easy thing to do to flick one out the back like that he won’t scor too many easyier tries El’s good we hope that he’ be scoring a few more in the tri colors [Applause] so what a week for Jack ell good on the Footy Show on Thursday night there was still continued speculation on the $11,000 man of the match goes to Luke rickinson tough day at the office today Luke losing Freddy fitler so early yeah it was uh bit of a shock to our plans earlier on but uh you know we stuck to it they lost the man very early and it made it uh a lot tougher for us cuz they tried so many different things but uh you know it was a good for win yeah that’s a trap you can fall into against 12 men you think it’s going to come easy uh yeah you know you’re sort of uh try and play the game a little bit wider and you know they’re very enthusiastic trying to uh get the ball a bit wide of us too so M it was a as I said it was a very very tough win today what about yourselves a lot of new players into the side it looked like a little cusion missing there today yeah you know uh Gus played a lot of BLS in different positions today and uh you know we don’t sort of train a lot a lot of those bles positions so it made it uh made it very tough in the communication department so all right mate congratulations on your consistent performance yeah thanks to CH no think