{"id":598930,"date":"2026-04-11T00:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598930\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T00:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:10:30","slug":"match-report-nrl-round-6-vs-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598930\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Report: NRL Round 6 vs Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manly Warringah Sea Eagles have made it back-to-back wins after defeating the St George Illawarra Dragons 28-18 in Round 6 at WIN Stadium, Wollongong.<\/p>\n

The Sea Eagles trailed the Dragons 18-16 early in the second half after surrendering a 16-0 lead but fought back to seal their second victory in as many weeks.<\/p>\n

A couple of errors from the Dragons out of their own end saw Manly open the scoring in the seventh minute.\u00a0 Jason Saab tapped back a pin-point cross field kick from Jamal Fogarty with Reuben Garrick there to finish it off.<\/p>\n

The Dragons went close to scoring in the 11th minute but for some desperate defence from Manly.\u00a0 A kick in behind from Luciano Leilua found winger Christian Tuipulotu who was cut down by Garrick just metres from the line.<\/p>\n

Manly jumped out to a 10-0 lead in the 16th minute on the back of a wonderful 40-20 kick from Fogarty.\u00a0 After a couple of ruck infringements from the Dragons, Tom Trbojevic then sliced through, stepping of his right foot to beat Kyle Flanagan.<\/p>\n


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Manly then scored from the kick restart to make it 16-0 in the 18th minute.\u00a0 It was an audacious play with Jason Saab taking the catch and then sending Garrick on an 85-metre race down the eastern touchline to score.<\/p>\n

The Dragons were denied a try due to an obstruction call in the 22nd minute but their first four-pointer was not too far away.<\/p>\n

Manly lock Jake Trbojevic was forced from the field on the half hour mark with a cut below the eye and did not return.\u00a0 Although passing his HIA, he watched the remainder of the match from the bench.<\/p>\n

Momentum was slowly starting to turn in the Dragons\u2019 favour and their first try came in the 22nd minute.<\/p>\n

A cheeky quick tap from Luciano Leilua resulted in the edge forward diving over from a couple of metres out and with the conversion from Valentine Holmes, had the Dragons behind 16-6.<\/p>\n


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The Dragons were in again a few minutes later, again a close-range effort, this time from Jacob Liddle who scooted out of dummy half beating a couple of defenders to ground the ball over the line.<\/p>\n

The home side almost crossed again on the stroke of half time but a desperate tackle by Turbo dislodged the ball just in time.<\/p>\n

After being ahead 16-0, Manly went into the sheds up 16-12.<\/p>\n

The home team took the lead five minutes into the second half when they scored a third unanswered try.<\/p>\n

After being stripped of possession, Manly were made to pay.<\/p>\n

The Dragons quickly went to their right with Tyrell Sloan throwing a long pass for winger Setu Tu who slipped over, regained his feet, and crossed in the corner.<\/p>\n

Manly regained the lead in the 55th minute when Kobe Hetherington crashed over underneath the black dot to score his first try in Manly colours.\u00a0 The tireless No.10 played a key role in the lead up as well, gaining some good metres through the middle.<\/p>\n

The Sea Eagles gave themselves a 10-point buffer with about 14 minutes remaining when Lehi Hopoate crossed in the southeastern corner after receiving a crafty pass from Turbo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fogarty\u2019s conversion from wide out were the final points of the match, putting his team ahead 28-18<\/p>\n


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The five-tries-to-three victory for Manly, with a double to Garrick, consigned the Dragons to their sixth loss of the season, and handed new coach Kieran Foran a second win in as many games.<\/p>\n

It caps one of only a few successful visits to Wollongong for Manly, just their third win at WIN Stadium in thirteen games.<\/p>\n

Next up is a trip to Townsville to face the Cowboys on Thursday 16th April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manly Warringah Sea Eagles have made it back-to-back wins after defeating the St George Illawarra Dragons 28-18 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-598930","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\/598930","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=598930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}