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World of Rugby League | Queensland
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Grandstand
2001 Queensland Cup -
Round 2: March 16-18
East Coast Tigers
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Burleigh Bears
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EAST COAST
TIGERS 12
Tries: Brett McPherson
Goals: Scott Thorburn 4
Team: 1. Dustin Cooper, 2. Aseri
Laing, 3. David Baildon, 4. Jason Bulgarelli, 5. Jason
Wendt, 6. Scott Thorburn, 7. Brett McPherson, 8. Joe
Taylor, 9. Jamie Tomlinson, 10. Graham Cotter, 11.
Jeff Doyle (c), 12. Chris Nahi, 13. Scott
Sipple. Interchange: 14. Ricky Taylor, 15.
Clinton Peters, 16. Charles Tonga, 17. Wade Liddell. Coach:
Graham Herlihy.
defeated BURLEIGH BEARS 10
Tries: Aaron Douglas, Nick Shaw
Goals: Greg
Bourke
Team: 1. Jamie Mahon, 2. Greg Bourke,
3. Jim Lenihan, 4. Nick Shaw, 5. Aaron Douglas, 6.
Adam Hayden, Grant Adamson (c), 8. Ali Brown,
9. Blair Tonkin, 10. Shane O'Flanagan, 11. Bill Dunn,
12. Hudson Smith, 13. Dean Allen. Interchange:
14. Adam Cook, 15. Jeremy Schloss, 16. Tony Gray, 17.
Darren Anderson. Coach: Rick Stone.
Venue: Langlands Park
Date: Saturday March 17
Referee: Rob Alexander
Half-time: East Coast 8-4
Penalties: East Coast 13-10
When They Scored: 15 min: East Coast 2-0 (Thorburn
goal). 23 min: East Coast 8-0 (McPherson try,
Thorburn goal). 32 min: East Coast 8-4 (Douglas
try). 53 min: East Coast 10-4 (Thorburn
goal). 57min: 10-all (Shaw try, Bourke
goal). 80 min: East Coast 12-10 (Thorburn goal).
East Coast have managed to get away with a
12-10 win after Scott Thorburn kicked a penalty goal
right on full-time. Burleigh conceded a penalty right
in front of the goal posts when their defenders were
found to be off-side by referee Rob Alexander and
Thorburn had no trouble kicking the goal. It was an
anti-climax to what was a very tight and hard fought
match in which both forwards packs slugged it out all
afternoon.
The Tigers scored the first try of the match when
half-back Brett McPherson ducked underneath two Bears'
defenders and placed the ball over the line. The try
came off a Burleigh error after centre Nick Shaw was
crunched by the Tigers' defence and lost the ball.
The home side could have had another try (and it would
have been a spectacular one at that too), just moments
later, had the video referee not ruled it as a double
movement. Prop Joe Taylor started the move when he
off-loaded the ball to Jason Bulgarelli who put Aseri
Laing into a gap. Laing raced down the field and was
eventually halted thanks to an ankle-tap by Grant
Adamson. However, he passed the ball back to
Bulgarelli who was brought down just 10 metres of the
Bears' line. East Coast spread the ball to the other
side of the ground and it looked they would get over
the line except for the fact that David Baildon made a
double movement and was penalised for doing so.
Burleigh struck back when Aaron Douglas finished off a
fantastic back-line try. The Bears received
back-to-back penalties which brought them down to East
Coast's half. They spread out wide to Grant Adamson
who flighted a pass between two dummy runners to Jamie
Mahon. Mahon then gave the ball to Jim Lenihan and he
overhanded it to Aaron Douglas, who scored in the
corner. Greg Bourke missed the conversion and East
Coast had a 8-4 lead. That's how it remained up to
half-time.
After several raids at East Coast's line, Burleigh
finally got over the line to draw the game at 10-all (Thorburn
kicked a penalty goal to the Tigers just minutes
before). Bill Dunn ran across the field, drawing a
couple of defenders, and a slipped a nice little pass
to Nick Shaw and Shaw crossed for the try.
In the dying minutes of the game, Burleigh forward
Hudson Smith got sent to sin-bin for fighting in the
75th minute. Smith had just crunched Tiger Joe Taylor
in a tackle and Taylor lost the ball. However, Smith
decided to go on with it and Rob Alexander had no
choice but to banish the big forward to the sin-bin.
Thorburn missed the shot at conversion but he was not
to be denied again when given the chance, on
full-time, to win the game for the home side.
All-in-all it was a great game of rugby league despite
the amount of dropped ball from both sides (mainly
brought on by the warm conditions). Both forwards
packs slugged it out all afternoon with many big hits
and crunching tackles being put on. Burleigh had their
opportunities in the second half to score more tries
but thwarted by East Coast's great defence. The game
probably deserved a draw but the Bears' discipline
cost them in the end and the home team escaped with
the 2 points.
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