Canberra’s life without Jamal Fogarty has started in astonishing fashion, with new No.7 Ethan Sanders scoring a field goal to win a golden point thriller against Manly.<\/p>\n
After a late Sea Eagles flurry forced the contest at Brookvale Oval to extra time, 22-year-old Sanders needed just one attempt to seal the 29-28 round one win.<\/p>\n
Xavier Savage celebrates after scoring his second try.\u00a0Photo by Izhar Khan\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Fogarty, in his Manly debut against his former team, had forced golden point with the last kick of normal time after Canberra players were ruled offside on his two-point field goal attempt.<\/p>\n
He slotted the penalty goal after the fulltime siren, before his Canberra replacement got the last laugh with his first chance in the extra period.<\/p>\n
In an extraordinary game, Manly led 14-0 inside 20 minutes before five unanswered tries flipped the script for a Raiders’ 28-14 advantage.<\/p>\n
Late tries for Tolutau Koula and Fogarty brought the Sea Eagles within two, before the half’s penalty goal forced extra time.<\/p>\n
Two tries each for emerging second-rower Noah Martin and pacey winger Xavier Savage, along with a bursting run from Sanders, had helped Canberra overcome their poor opening 20 minutes where ill discipline put them into their 14-0 hole.<\/p>\n
In the Raiders’ first start without halfback Fogarty, who swapped Canberra green for Manly maroon in the off-season, Sanders and five-eighth Ethan Strange hardly put a foot wrong and created a try each in the comeback win.<\/p>\n
A cross-field kick from Fogarty created a try for second-rower Haumole Olakau’atu for Manly’s 14-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Martin, in just his second NRL start, got Canberra going after their lamentable start when they did not touch the football for the first 12 minutes.<\/p>\n
They gave away three penalties, six set restarts and tries to Tom Trbojevic and Olakau’atu, before Martin beat two tacklers for his side’s first points.<\/p>\n
Three tries in seven minutes, including Martin’s second from a delightful Kaeo Weekes ball, put Canberra in the box seat.<\/p>\n
Savage scored two in four minutes, his second courtesy of a deft kick from second-rower Hudson Young.<\/p>\n
Sanders’ try, after a slicing run from close range, looked to have punctuated the victory, before his one-pointer showed Canberra fans the quality he could bring for the next decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canberra’s life without Jamal Fogarty has started in astonishing fashion, with new No.7 Ethan Sanders scoring a field…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-524621","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\/524621","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=524621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}