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Newcastle Knights
18
South Sydney Rabbitohs
24
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Newcastle Knights
South Sydney Rabbitohs
H1
12
10

    Newcastle Knights Events

  • 24 mins - Try, T.Hodkinson
  • 25 mins - Conversion, T.Hodkinson
  • 30 mins - Try, P.Mata'utia
  • 39 mins - Penalty goal, T.Hodkinson

    Newcastle Knights and South Sydney Rabbitohs Events

  • 7 mins - Try, A.Johnston
  • 21 mins - Try, J.Sutton
  • 22 mins - Conversion, A.Reynolds
H2
6
14

    Newcastle Knights Events

  • 78 mins - Try, K.Sio
  • 79 mins - Conversion, B.Lamb

    Newcastle Knights and South Sydney Rabbitohs Events

  • 42 mins - Try, B.Goodwin
  • 43 mins - Conversion, A.Reynolds
  • 58 mins - Try, B.Burns
  • 60 mins - Conversion, A.Reynolds
  • 74 mins - Penalty goal, A.Reynolds
ET
0
0

    Newcastle Knights Events

    Newcastle Knights and South Sydney Rabbitohs Events

Scorers

Newcastle Knights
South Sydney Rabbitohs
Goal Scorers Newcastle Knights South Sydney Rabbitohs
Tries Hodkinson (1), Mata'utia (1), Sio (1) Johnston (1), Sutton (1), Goodwin (1), Burns (1)
Conversions Hodkinson (1/2), Lamb (1/1) Reynolds (3/4)
Penalty Goals Hodkinson (1/1) Reynolds (1/1)
Field Goals

Team Statistics

Newcastle Knights
South Sydney Rabbitohs

Statistics

Newcastle Knights South Sydney Rabbitohs
Tries 3 4
Conversions 2 3
Penalty Goals 1 1
Field Goals 0 0
Newcastle KnightsGoal Scorers
Players R RM OF LB TA K T MT PC ER
M.Barnett 7 55 0 0 0 0 44 1 1 2
J.Buhrer 9 79 1 1 1 1 40 0 0 0
B.Elliot 8 58 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 0
D.Gagai 11 111 1 0 0 0 16 3 1 0
T.Hodkinson 1 11 0 1 0 3 13 5 1 1
B.Lamb 6 32 1 0 0 9 16 0 0 0
D.Levi 2 23 0 0 0 0 27 1 0 1
P.Mata'utia 10 93 1 1 0 0 14 1 0 2
S.Mata'utia 10 89 0 0 1 1 12 0 1 1
N.Ross 15 154 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 1
D.Saifiti 14 125 1 0 0 0 22 0 0 0
J.Saifiti 1 6 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 1
K.Sio 12 122 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 1
J.Starling 7 63 2 0 0 0 32 0 3 0
J.Stockwell 10 100 1 0 0 0 18 0 0 2
S.Stone 1 6 0 0 0 0 17 1 0 1
L.Yates 8 73 0 0 0 0 30 0 0 0
South Sydney RabbitohsGoal Scorers
Players R RM OF LB TA K T MT PC ER
G.Burgess 8 70 0 0 0 0 13 1 1 2
S.Burgess 15 170 0 0 0 0 38 1 1 2
B.Burns 7 54 0 1 0 1 6 1 0 1
J.Clark 12 97 0 0 0 0 30 1 1 0
D.Cook 4 34 0 0 0 1 16 1 1 0
A.Crichton 10 71 1 0 0 0 14 1 0 0
R.Farah 8 59 0 0 0 1 21 1 0 0
B.Goodwin 8 75 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 1
H.Hunt 10 87 0 0 0 0 19 0 1 1
R.Jennings 9 93 0 0 0 0 8 3 0 0
A.Johnston 13 130 1 1 0 0 11 0 0 2
Z.Musgrove 10 97 0 0 0 0 17 0 1 1
A.Reynolds 2 18 0 0 2 8 20 2 0 0
R.Rochow 3 26 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 1
J.Sutton 7 71 0 1 0 3 23 2 0 0
K.Turner 9 87 0 0 0 0 33 2 0 0
C.Walker 6 86 1 0 2 3 16 3 0 0

Match Details

Newcastle Knights
South Sydney Rabbitohs
START TIME
1:30PM
WEATHER
Showers Windy
VENUE
McDonald Jones Stadium
Referees
Bryan Norrie, Chris Sutton, David Munro, Jared Maxwell, Michael Gordon, Russell Turner
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South Sydney Rabbitohs make improved Newcastle Knights pay for second-half lapses

South Sydney racked up their eighth successive win against Newcastle with a 24-18 victory at McDonald Jones Stadium on Saturday.

The Knights led 12-10 at half-time, despite running into a stiff wind, but paid the price for errors and ill-discipline after the break.

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Souths top Knights in sin bin dominated game

The Rabbitohs have managed to claim a tough victory in Newcastle after overcoming the Knights 24-18 in a game marred by two incidents that saw players from both sides sent to the sin bin.

It was nonetheless their best performance against Souths since they last beat the Rabbitohs in 2011, and a vast improvement on some of the hidings they have endured in recent seasons.

Newcastle had Souths prop George Burgess to thank for turning an early 10-0 deficit into a two-point half-time lead.

With his team in possession, Burgess was sin-binned after throwing an elbow and punches during a confrontation with Knights lock Mitch Barnett.

A minute later, Newcastle skipper Trent Hodkinson stepped inside Sam Burgess to score next to the posts, then converted his own try.

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Newcastle scored a second try, by centre Peter Mata'utia in the left-hand corner, while George Burgess was serving his penance. 

A 38th-minute penalty goal by Hodkinson, after a late hit on Newcastle five-eighth Brock Lamb, put the home side in the lead.

George Burgess capped off a frustrating half when he barged across the line seconds before the siren, only to spill the ball trying to ground it.

Souths drew first blood in the seventh minute when fullback Alex Johnston extended his freakish try-scoring record against Newcastle.

It was Johnston's 10th try against the Knights in five games.

When Souths-back-rower John Sutton charged over after a Cody Walker short ball, it was 10-0 to the visitors, who were looking in ominous form.

The Knights, with a howling southerly at their backs, gifted Souths great attacking position at the start of the second half when Lamb inexplicably caught the kick-off, instead of allowing it to go out on the full, and Jacob Saifiti was trapped in-goal.

From the ensuing set of tackles, Walker grubber-kicked and winger Bryson Goodwin was on the spot to score.

Reynolds threw a classy cut-out pass in the 58th minute to gift-wrap a try for winger Braidon Burns, then converted for a 22-12 lead.

Any hopes of a Newcastle fightback were seemingly torpedoed in the 70th minute, when Hodkinson was sin-binned for dissent, apparently after telling referee Dave Munro: "You've just cost us the game."

Hodkinson was reacting after Souths won a scrum against the feed, denying Newcastle a prime attacking opportunity.

But with two minutes left in the game, the Knights gave 15,212 spectators hope when winger Ken Sio scored from a Jamie Buhrer grubber, and Lamb converted from the sideline.