Western Suburbs Magpies have powered to a 42-24 victory over South Sydney Rabbitohs in Round 24 of the NSW Cup at Redfern Oval, overcoming an early deficit to run away with the points.<\/p>\n
Souths struck first in the 4th minute when winger Haizyn Mellars soared high to collect a bomb and score.<\/p>\n
Three minutes later, Mellars again showcased his aerial skills, offloading brilliantly behind his head for second-rower Cody Kelso to crash over.<\/p>\n
But the Magpies responded strongly, with Charlie Staines crossing in the 16th minute off a sharp cut-out pass from Brent Naden.<\/p>\n
Momentum swung Wests\u2019 way soon after when a spilled bomb deflected into the arms of hooker Tristan Hope, who scored under the posts.<\/p>\n
Front-rower Peter Taateo then added to the tally off a short ball from Hope, putting the Magpies ahead 18-8.<\/p>\n
Souths narrowed the gap through Mellars\u2019 second try in the 29th minute, before a late penalty goal from Kurt Falls gave Wests a 20-12 half-time lead.<\/p>\n
The Magpies continued their surge after the break.<\/p>\n
A Souths error under a high ball allowed Elie El-Zakhem to offload for Luke Laulilii to score, before fullback Heath Mason broke the line off a clever inside pass from Falls to extend the lead.<\/p>\n
Souths hit back through Fletcher Myers and prop Salesi Ataata, closing the gap to just eight points with 12 minutes to play.<\/p>\n
But Wests had the final say.<\/p>\n
Izaac Tu\u2019itupou finished a slick left-edge movement in the 72nd minute, before a late offload from Hope sent Falls under the posts to seal the 42-24 win.<\/p>\n
Adding to the occasion, teenage prop Christian Taupau-Moors made his NSW Cup debut, impressing against a big Souths pack.<\/p>\n
Magpies 42\u00a0(Staines, Hope, Taateo, L. Laulilii, Mason, Tu’itupou, Falls tries; Falls 6\/7 goals, L. Laulilii 1\/1 goal) defeated Rabbitohs\u00a0(Mellars 2, Kelso, Myers, Ataata tries; Humphries 2\/5 goals)\u00a0at Redfern Oval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western Suburbs Magpies have powered to a 42-24 victory over South Sydney Rabbitohs in Round 24 of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-72739","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\/72739","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=72739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}