NRL live updates: Sydney Roosters vs Penrith Panthers, Melbourne Storm vs Brisbane Broncos
NRL Friday — live scoreboard
14′ Toia almost grabs a double
An excellent Tedesco kick return and a set restart puts the Roosters on the attack.
They sweep right and Toia powers towards the line, he looks like he’s going to score but loses the ball juuuuust short. Penrith hang on.
6′ Toia powers over for opening try
Back-to-back set restarts puts the Roosters on the attack and a grubber from Robson forces a drop out after Edwards just manages to drag down Toia short of the line.
Tedesco ventures right and gets some early ball to Toia, he takes on McLean and beats him cold to score the opening try.
Very nice stuff from the Toia and good lead-up work – normal shape isn’t going to beat Penrith, it needs to come in broken-field situations like that.
Walker from wide out…but he can’t swing it around. Roosters lead 4-0.
And we’re underway at the SFS
The Panthers kick us off, running left to right.
Tips
Hard to go past the Panthers for this first game – they’ve looked so strong through the opening fortnight with their defensive resolve particularly standing out.
But I’m no writing off the Roosters’ chances though, they’ve got plenty of attacking firepower they started to unlock last week.
Let’s go Penrith by four with Papali’i to score the first try.
Reece Robson is on debut for the Roosters
The big inclusion for the Roosters this week is NSW Origin hooker Reece Robson, who’s making an early comeback from a broken hand after joining the Bondi club from the Cowboys over the summer.
Hooker has been a bit of a problematic spot for the Roosters since Jake Friend retired and they’ll be looking for Robson to make the spot his own.
The 27-year old has an excellent workrate and is more dangerous out of dummy half than he gets credit for. I’m expecting him to be a big success this year.
Final teams: Roosters vs Panthers
Both teams are 1-17 as named on Tuesday with Cody Ramsey and Toby Rodwell rounding out the bench for the Tricolours while Izack Tago and Jack Cole are doing the same for the Panthers.
Hello and welcome to the ABC’s NRL live blog
Hey everybody, hope you’re pumped for a massive Friday night footy double header.
First up we have the Roosters and the Panthers at the SFS before we head south to Melbourne where the Storm will play the Broncos in the grand final rematch.
That’s four big teams in two big games, so kick back, relax and let me do all the work – I’ll have updates and news from both matches from go to woah.
I’m Nick Campton, this is the ABC NRL live blog, let’s make some plays out there tonight.
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