1h agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 8:58amLive updates: Sea Eagles vs Roosters
1m agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 10:55am
80′ Sam Walker with a field goal!
There you go!
The most casual drop goal you’ll ever see.
He got the ball off the goal line drop out, looked around, took a couple of walking steps and clipped the ball over the bar.
It ends 33-16.
2m agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 10:54am
79′ Naufahu Whyte brutalises the Sea Eagles defence
Wow, Mark Nawaqanitawase leaped like a modern-day Israel Folau and claimed the short-ish kick off.
Then Naifahu Whyte powers his way through the line and makes the best part of 20 metres post-contact.
Then the Roosters get a penalty for offside, but they can’t do anything with it.
4m agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 10:53am77′ The Roosters score another!
This might take some explaining.
The Roosters kicked the ball dead BUT then challenged whether there was a touch or not.
It was a hail Mary play from the Roosters, who felt that there wasn’t a touch from Whyte as he went to ground and Ben Trbojevic kicked it dead over his own dead ball line.
It was a mutual infringement?
Because the referee didn’t signal a six again call, the Roosters get to take the last play again.
From that play, Rob Toia leaped up, out-duelled Tom Trbojevic and fell over the line.
Try confirmed.
I am not really sure why the Roosters needed to get that play again, but I’m sure there was a reason for it that the NRL can explain.
The kick is good and it’s 32-16.
14m agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 10:42am72′ SAAB SMASHES SAVALA! IS ON REPORT AND SENT TO THE SIN BIN!
OH MY WORD!
Jason Saab has made direct contact with the head of Hugo Savala and this could be a send off.
It’s just 10 minutes off – a sin bin.
It was an enormous shot. There was a bit of a slip from Savala but his head was rocked back by the point of the shoulder.
Wowza.
16m agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 10:40am
71′ Saab drops it cold!
James Tedesco just did enough as the Sea Eagles moved the ball really well down the right side.
Trbojevic created the extra man and then passed to Jason Saab, who had open space to run into but Tedesco’s lunge was just distracting enough.
20m agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 10:36am66′ Manly get a try!
Perhaps it’s not done yet?
Luke Brooks does really well, offloading to Tom Trbojevic, who sends Lehi Hopoate away down the left.
He draws Tedesco wide and passes inside to Trbojevic who scores untouched.
There was suspicion that the pass to Brooks was forward, a Rooster voice called that loudly but it wasn’t given.
The kick, important from Fogarty, is made.
It’s 26-16.
27m agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 10:29am
60′ Jake Trbojevic off with an HIA
It’s a Cat 2 according to Fox Sports.
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It does mean Simione Laiafi is on the field, the 191cm, 116kg, 19-year-old kid prop, for his NRL debut.
He is an absolute monster of a teenager. Wow.
29m agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 10:27am
59′ Error Roosters!
Lindsay Collins fumbles the ball off the kick off and Manly have to score here!
They have the scrum 15 metres out from the Roosters line.
Fogarty almost breaks through the line! Collins with a try-saving grab of the Sea Eagle!
The kick comes in from Brooks but it’s gathered and the Roosters get away from it.
31m agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 10:25am57′ Penalty try Roosters!
Tupou dots down, but was he being tackled without the ball by Reuben Garrick?
James Tedesco gets up ahead of Tom Trbojevic to claim the bomb.
The ball is kicked wide to Daniel Tupou.
It’s wonderful from Daniel Tupou really, gathering, grubbering through and still getting the ball down, but Reuben Garrick grabbed him well after the kick was made.
He should have let go – Tupou would have scored comfortably in the corner if he didn’t.
It’s a penalty try and a pretty clear one to be honest.
The kick from in front of the posts is an easy one.
It’s 26-10.
The game is getting away from Manly.
35m agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 10:22am55′ Try Roosters!
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There were moments of magic all over the pitch there from the Roosters.
Daly Cherry-Evans with a delightful spin move earned a break.
Hugo Savala got the ball to Daniel Tupou that beggared belief, spun around in the tackle and still passing out the back,
And then it was a brilliant kick from Reece Robson, a curling grubber that Conor Watson puts down.
Brilliant stuff from the Roosters.
All of a sudden the visitors lead 20-10.
38m agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 10:18am
54′ Penalty Roosters
High shot from Luke Brooks there, or was it Jake Simpkin?
Someone hit a Rooster high off the return and they’ll get some extra distance for free, the Roosters.
39m agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 10:17am
52′ Roosters score the first try of the second half
Conor Watson got the ball off an error by Manly, Corey Waddell just lost it in the tackle – perhaps a strip?
There were a lot of players in the tackle.
The Roosters move the ball down towards the Manly line.
There is a repeat set won.
Robert Toia gets the ball from Daly Cherry-Evans, puts a step on Luke Brooks and then bumps him off, lovely footwork.
The kick is good!
Roosters lead 14-10.
41m agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 10:15am
49′ Tom Trbojevic saves a try
Lovely kick from Sam Walker, just a short one for Nat Butcher to chase.
But Trbojevic is there to save the day with a neat slide.
That move started with one of the most outrageous offloads from Mark Nawaqanitawase
– it was barely picked up by the commentators but it was utterly remarkable, the way he held the ball in one hand, stood up in the tackle and waited for support, before flicking the ball to a teammate.
Then Angus Crichton took up the charge and made it deep into Manly territory.
The goal line drop out was long again from Fogarty, another insane 60+ metre kick.
48m agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 10:09am
43′ Billy Smith off the field with a knee injury
The Roosters have just 15 players to chose from at the moment.
Billy Smith is off, Hugo Savala is on in the centres in his place.
Egan Butcher failed his HIA earlier in the contest too.
52m agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 10:04am
41′ We’re back underway
The rain appears to have blown away for now.
That will be a relief to the crowd.
And the players, too.
1h agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 9:52am
HT: Manly leads Roosters 10-8
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Goodness, what a stunning first 40 minutes.
Two length of the field tries from the Sea Eagles – including the fastest ever try in this fixture – means that despite having barely any territory and just nine tackles in the Roosters half of the field, they lead 10-8.
The Roosters, by the way, have had 49 tackles in Manly’s half.
Daly Cherry-Evans has been relentlessly booed throughout but has been steady, helping the Roosters to a 100 per cent completion rate of 22/22 despite the appalling wet conditions.
But it’s very much game on in Manly at the moment.
1h agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 9:45am
37′ Roosters knock on
Trbojevic sets off again down the left edge and passes back inside alongside Luke Brooks, who has really burst into space.
The ball goes to deck but there was a knock on.
The Sea Eagles can’t keep hold of the ball from the resulting move to the right though and the Roosters come away with it.
But hang on, Sam Walker is forced off the field with a head clash – it was friendly fire but he does look a big groggy.
1h agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 9:42am
34′ Roosters have had all the territory
The Roosters have had 73 per cent of the territory in this game.
They’ve completed 16 from 16.
It’s stunning that the Sea Eagles are leading this game.
But they are starting to look a lot better with the ball in hand.
Brooks does brilliantly there, delaying a pass to Trbojevic who burst through the line, passing to Hopoate who almost gets through towards the line before being cut down viciously by Nawaqanitawase.
There is a threat there though now, where there hadn’t been for 30-odd minutes.
1h agoThu 26 Mar 2026 at 9:34am29′ TOLU KOULA WITH A STUNNING TRY!
INCREDIBLE 20-METRE TRY!
Tolu Koula picked up the ball inside his own 20.
He was fronting up against Robert Toia but a little skip and a jump and a step off the left foot and suddenly he was accelerating away, bursting like a shot away from Toia and then sliding between Siua Wong and Daly Cherry-Evans.
Up against the fullback Tedesco, he shows another great move and leaves the former Blue on his backside, then shows a clean pair of heels to Siua Wong.
And he’s over.
Remarkable.
The kick is no good but Manly leads 10-8 thanks to one of the best tries you’ll ever see.