![]() ![]() You can see why they’re at the top of the ladder but we weren’t far away from them in patches today.” “The Magpies are a very well drilled side. SP PNG Hunters Head Coach Stanley Tepend was bitterly disappointed with the end result. Those small moments eventually added up for the Hunters while Souths Logan showed why they sit atop the QRL Hostplus Cup ladder after 14 rounds played. They kept themselves in the fight through until the fulltime siren, but just lost too many small moments throughout the match. They were competitive in yardage and the more aggressive side in defence for most of the contest. The craft and speed of Mozer from dummy-half picked apart the Hunters ruck defence around the posts and prop-forward Logan Bayliss was the beneficiary in the 73rd minute, taking the Magpies tally to 40 points.ĭespite finishing on the wrong end of a lopsided scoreboard, the Hunters weren’t far off the competition leading Magpies in this one. Souths Logan’s NRL-contracted players continued to star in the closing stages. They played most of their footy in PNG territory and the pressure eventually told when fullback Braden Whittaker broke into the backfield on a kick return.Ī great individual effort from Morea denied Whittaker briefly, but Souths Logan winger Jack Smith iced the play on the following tackle to give the Magpies a 34-10 lead. A four-pass shift to the left edge ended in the hands of Mire, who broke through the line but lost possession in the cover tackle.īuoyed by their defence, the Magpies dominated the next 10 minutes. The Hunters rolled downfield and found easy metres on the edges before setting up on the right tram line. Mire almost went back-to-back in the kickoff set. A great run from Trevor Solu burned the markers and split the ruck defence, and Mire backed it up with another clever run from dummy-half to score. They were matching the Magpies in the yardage battle until another sinbin once again gave Souths Logan a numerical advantage on the field, and Jennings made the most of it to score in the 48th minute.Ībsorbing a mountain of pressure in their own half, the Hunters exploded to life the first time they worked into Magpies territory. ![]() PNG Kumuls representative Cruise Ten gifted Callum Eggerling a slick four-pointer when he got an offload away close to the line, and then five-eighth Radean Robinson latched onto a Campagnolo kick to score beside the posts.ĭespite being down 24-4 going into the sheds, the Hunters weren’t far away and again looked likely in the opening exchanges of the half. When Casey Dickson was sent to the sinbin in the 31st minute for a tackle gone wrong, Souths Logan struck with two opportunistic tries in the shadows of halftime. ![]() Kot was the man on the spot to collect the loose ball from there, completing an athletic, diving effort in the corner to score the Hunters first points. The Hunters made the most of their possession to work upfield and into position for an attacking kick.Ī perfectly weighted Joshua Mire bomb was well supported by Brandon Nima and Lau in the kick-chase, forcing the error from the Magpies defence. Kot was rewarded for his efforts without the ball soon after. Stopping Mozer in his tracks with a huge shot, Kot denied the Magpies a certain try and won possession back for his team. They came close to scoring again when Mozer darted from dummy-half late in the count, only for Kot to again produce a big defensive play for his teammates. Some desperate cover defence from Benji Kot and Joshua Lau saved the day for the Hunters on this occasion, but the Magpies went quickly back on the attack. Mozer was at it again for the visitors shortly afterwards, bamboozling the Hunters ruck defence with great deception to pass another Broncos-affiliated player – Benjamin Tu Kura – into another try scoring situation beside the posts.įull of running and confidence, Souths Logan made a linebreak from the following kick off and looked like going the length. With the ensuing field position, Italian international representative Jack Campagnolo orchestrated a slick left edge movement that ended with centre Jesse Jennings steaming through the line to score. The Hunters looked confident working through their opening sets until a great tackle from Brisbane Broncos-contracted hooker Blake Mozer forced an error in yardage. ![]()
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