{"id":39912,"date":"2025-08-02T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/39912\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:03:10","slug":"match-report-round-22-vs-roosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/39912\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Report: Round 22 vs Roosters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manly Warringah Sea Eagles have suffered a 20-4 defeat to the Sydney Roosters at a drenched 4 Pines Park in Round 22 of the Telstra NRL Premiership.<\/p>\n

The Roosters went to the break leading 12-4 despite only having a few attacking sets in Manly\u2019s end, with both first half tries coming from the boot of halfback Sam Walker.<\/p>\n

It was Manly with the first try scoring opportunity 30 minutes into the match when Reuben Garrick crossed in the north-west-corner however the final pass was ruled to be forward.<\/p>\n


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The home side then saw fullback Lehi Hopoate sent for a head injury assessment after he collected the knee of opposite number James Tedesco when contesting a kick.\u00a0 Hopoate was cleared by the medical staff and later returned with his team leading 4-0.<\/p>\n

The Sea Eagles opened the scoring in the sixteenth minute when Tolu Koula powered his way over on the left edge.<\/p>\n

The home side then had a couple more opportunities on that same side of the ground \u00a0but came up empty handed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Garrick looked to be on his way over again before being trapped by the Roosters scrambling defence and dropping the ball short of the line.<\/p>\n


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Ben Trbojevic was then sent for a HIA after a head clash, failing the test and not returning.<\/p>\n

The Roosters scored their first try against the run of play.\u00a0 Right centre Robert Toia forced a mistake from Tom Trbojevic when defending his own line.<\/p>\n

The Roosters then raced the length of the field with Billy Smith collecting a neat in-goal grubber grom Sam Walker.<\/p>\n

The visitors were in again the very next set, scoring a freakish try to extend their lead to 12-4.<\/p>\n

The play started with Connor Watson offloading on halfway to Tedesco who split through the middle, then a cross-field kick from Walker to Daniel Tupou who passed off the deck for Angus Crichton to score.<\/p>\n


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The rain got even heavier in the second half has the near 13,000-strong crowd scurried to find dry and unoccupied seats.<\/p>\n

The first scoring play of the second half was a penalty kick from in front to put the Roosters up14-4 in the 48th minute.<\/p>\n

A short time later they jumped out to a 20-4 lead when Egan Butcher collected a cross field kick from Walker and dived over next to the posts.<\/p>\n

Given the conditions and the ball resembling a cake of soap, a 16-point deficit suddenly looked a bridge too far as both sides struggled to maintain possession.<\/p>\n

With about 10 minutes left Manly lost another player to a HIA when replacement hooker Jake Simpkin collected a knee to the head when attempting a tackle.<\/p>\n

And, as the rain continued to tumble and time remaining diminished, hopes of a miracle comeback grew fainter by the minute.<\/p>\n

The Roosters prevailed after an error-strewn second half to collect the Gotcha4Life Cup for a fourth time and keep their finals hopes alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manly Warringah Sea Eagles have suffered a 20-4 defeat to the Sydney Roosters at a drenched 4 Pines…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-39912","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\/39912","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=39912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}