{"id":19026,"date":"2025-07-24T17:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/19026\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T17:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:20:11","slug":"melbourne-storm-survive-bunker-howler-in-win-over-sydney-roosters-james-tedesco-offside-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/19026\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Storm survive Bunker howler in win over Sydney Roosters; James Tedesco offside, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melbourne<\/a> have survived a highly controversial decision in their thrilling 34-30 win against the Sydney Roosters<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

In a dramatic game at Allianz Stadium that saw superstar halfback Jahrome Hughes forced off with a dislocated shoulder<\/a>, the visitors managed to walk away with the two points despite a bizarre miss from the Bunker in the second half.<\/p>\n

With both teams trading the lead, the hosts moved clear again in the 64th minute as utility Zach Dockar-Clay cleaned up a loose ball from a Sam Walker bomb.<\/p>\n

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Roosters players celebrated in jubilation, but replays would show that James Tedesco was offside as he chased through Walker’s kick and became involved in the play.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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James Tedesco chases through Sam Walker’s kick\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

“Is Teddy onside here? We’ll have a look at this one, I think he might be offside. He normally never gets that wrong either,” Andrew Johns said on Nine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Johnathan Thurston agreed and was critical of Tedesco’s attention to detail.<\/p>\n

“I think he is offside the skipper – you just can’t get that wrong Teddy,” he said.<\/p>\n

Watch the 2025 NRL premiership live and free on Nine and 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But in an incredible twist, video official Chris Butler gave it the all clear.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Are they looking at it? I’m watching the referee – try confirmed,” Johns said in disbelief.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thurston could only offer the word “wow” as an aerial shot painted a clear picture.<\/p>\n

Melbourne managed to take the lead through Stefano Utoikamanu with less than 10 minutes remaining, before the Tricolours looked to steal it in the dying stages.<\/p>\n

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The aerial shot of James Tedesco’s kick chase\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

But a forward pass on the final play of the game was ruled and the Storm held on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“One of their great wins \u2026 they have prevailed in an absolute epic,” Mat Thompson said as the full-time siren went at Moore Park.<\/p>\n

Harry Grant was at his brilliant best, willing the wounded Storm to victory in enemy territory with Cameron Munster, Ryan Papenhuyzen and Nelson Asofa-Solomona all on the sidelines and Hughes going off after half time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne have survived a highly controversial decision in their thrilling 34-30 win against the Sydney Roosters on Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-19026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}