{"id":104012,"date":"2025-08-31T00:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T00:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/104012\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T00:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T00:40:07","slug":"toulouse-olympique-edge-dramatic-finale-at-bradford-bulls-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/104012\/","title":{"rendered":"Toulouse Olympique edge dramatic finale at Bradford Bulls \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BRADFORD BULLS \u200b\u200b10 TOULOUSE OLYMPIQUE \u200b12
CHRISTIAN LEE, Bartercard Odsal, Saturday<\/p>\n

JAKE SHORROCKS\u2019 late penalty snatched victory for Toulouse in a dramatic encounter with play-off rivals Bradford.<\/p>\n

Luke Hooley had the chance to level the game for the Bulls after the hooter but his effort sailed agonisingly wide.<\/p>\n

Toulouse had the best of the chances early, and looked to have scored through Mathieu Jussuame off a kick, however, the knockdown into his path was deemed to be forward.<\/p>\n

Reubenn Rennie also came close to getting on the end of a delicately placed kick but the ball just ran into touch. However, Bradford were ruled offside and Shorrocks edged the visitors ahead with his first penalty-goal.<\/p>\n

Bradford were given a boost moments later, however, as Toulouse found themselves down to 12 men after Olly Ashall-Bott was sent to the sin bin for a late tackle on Hooley as he kicked the ball.<\/p>\n

Despite appearing to still be suffering the effects of the collision, Hooley stepped up and knocked over the resulting penalty to level the scores.<\/p>\n

Playing with the man advantage, Bradford eventually found their way to the line as Jayden Okunbor acrobatically crossed for the game\u2019s opening try.<\/p>\n

Set up by a barrelling run by Matty Gee, Bradford spread the ball wide and Waqa Blake bumped off a would-be tackler before finding Okunbor who made no mistake in the corner.<\/p>\n

Hooley couldn\u2019t add the extras from the touchline.<\/p>\n

A Toulouse high tackle gave Bradford one more chance before the break, and the Bulls capitalised as Hooley kicked his second penalty-goal following ruck interference.<\/p>\n

Bradford began the second half on the front foot but a perfectly weighted kick from Thomas Lacans forced a goalline drop-out and changed the momentum.<\/p>\n

From the resulting set, the Frenchmen chose to run it on the last and found Ashall-Bott who bounced off his defender and dived over.<\/p>\n

Shorrocks made no mistake adding the extras to tie the game.<\/p>\n

With almost an hour gone, Okunbor made a mess of trying to prevent Shorrocks\u2019 long kick from heading out of play, conceding a drop-out.<\/p>\n

From the resulting kick, Bradford were penalised for stripping the ball as Toulouse charged in and Shorrocks put his side back ahead with his second penalty-goal.<\/p>\n

Bradford pushed hard to come back and were given a second chance with less than ten to go as Joe Keyes\u2019 wayward pass was touched by a Toulouse player.<\/p>\n

The visitors were then penalised for stripping the ball from Logan Bayliss-Brow and Hooley kicked the simple penalty to level the game once more.<\/p>\n

With two minutes on the clock, Bradford were penalised again, this time for a high tackle, and Shorrocks stepped up and edged Toulouse ahead with what looked to be the winner.<\/p>\n

However, as Toulouse looked to play out the clock, Bradford were given a penalty of their own on the hooter, metres inside Toulouse\u2019s half after a fracas in the middle.<\/p>\n

Hooley stepped up but his effort sailed wide and he fell to his knees as Toulouse rejoiced.<\/p>\n

They have now moved into second place and taken a big step towards a home semi-final.<\/p>\n

GAMESTAR: Jake Shorrocks was rock solid off the tee all night and his late penalty was the difference between the two sides.<\/p>\n

GAMEBREAKER: Luke Hooley had a chance to level the game for the Bulls on the hooter but his effort fell agonisingly wide.<\/p>\n

MATCHFACTS
BULLS
26 Luke Hooley
37 Jayden Okunbor
3 Waqa Blake
4 Kieran Gill
5 Guy Armitage
1 Tom Holmes
7 Joe Keyes
8 Michael Lawrence
9 Jordan Lilley
15 Logan Bayliss-Brow
11 Zac Fulton
12 Matty Gee
20 Ronan Michael
Subs (all used)
14 Ebon Scurr
34 Mitch Souter
35 Zane Musgrove
34 Chris Hill<\/p>\n

Tries: Okunbor (33)
Goals: Hooley 3\/5<\/p>\n

OLYMPIQUE
1 Olly Ashall-Bott
19 Benjamin Laguerre
5 Paul Marcon
3 Reubenn Rennie
2 Paul Ulberg
20 Thomas Lacans
7 Jake Shorrocks
8 Lambert Belmas
35 Brendan Hands
17 Rob Butler
4 Mathieu Jussaume
11 Maxime Stefani
13 Anthony Marion
Subs (all used)
15 Joe Cator
16 Joe Bretherton
10 James Roumanos
28 AJ Wallace<\/p>\n

Tries: Ashall-Bott (50)
Goals: Shorrocks 4\/4<\/p>\n

SCORING SEQUENCE: 0-2, 2-2, 6-2, 8-2; 8-8, 8-10, 10-10, 10-12<\/p>\n

Rugby Leaguer & League Express Men of the Match
Bulls: Luke Hooley; Olympique: Jake Shorrocks<\/p>\n

Penalty count: 7-6
Half-time: 8-2
Referee: Liam Rush
Attendance: 4,792<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRADFORD BULLS \u200b\u200b10 TOULOUSE OLYMPIQUE \u200b12CHRISTIAN LEE, Bartercard Odsal, Saturday JAKE SHORROCKS\u2019 late penalty snatched victory for Toulouse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-104012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}