Saturday’s NRL 2018 Round 3 match is between South Sydney Rabbitohs and Manly Sea Eagles. The opening kick is set to commence at 17:30 local time with the game to be played at ANZ Stadium. The away team Manly Sea Eagles are the favourites for the match. View our preview and teams for the game between South Sydney Rabbitohs and Manly Sea Eagles.
When: 17:30 | Saturday 24/03/2018
Where: ANZ Stadium
Preview:
It has been a forgettable week for Greg Inglis who in addition to a head knock against the Panthers was subject to a distasteful racial slur from a Penrith fan.
To the NRL and Panthers’ credit, they’ve launched an immediate investigation and vowed to punish the Penrith offender.
Inglis, as he’s done throughout his career, has held his head high throughout the furore and after being cleared to play this Sunday, he’ll be a vital weapon for the Rabbitohs against the rampant Sea Eagles.
Manly head into the contest on the back of a 54-0 romp against the Eels and they’ll be looking to continue that momentum in a contest they enjoy a slight edge in.
The peninsula side lead 9-8 since 2010 and have saluted in 3 of the last 5 including a 46-8 win in their last clash in April last year.
The Bunnies are 12-18 (40.0 percent) after a loss playing as a home team since 2012.
Manly has a 7-12 (36.8 percent) line record as an away team playing within its home state since 2016.
The Verdict
GI is rapidly regaining his fitness and it won’t be too long before he retakes his customary position at fullback.
Manly were firing on all cylinders against the Eels but it won’t be all one-way traffic this week.
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Teams:
Rabbitohs:
1 Alex Johnston, 2 Richie Kennar, 3 Dane Gagai, 4 Greg Inglis (c), 5 Robert Jennings, 6 Cody Walker, 7 Adam Doueihi, 8 Thomas Burgess, 9 Damien Cook, 10 Sam Burgess, 11 John Sutton, 12 Angus Crichton, 13 Cameron Murray.
Interchange: 14 Hymel Hunt, 15 Mark Nicholls, 16 George Burgess, 17 Tevita Tatola.
Reserves: 18 Robbie Farah, Jason Clark, 20 Braidon Burns, 21 Kyle Turner.
Sea Eagles:
1 Tom Trbojevic, 2 Jorge Taufua, 3 Brad Parker, 4 Brian Kelly, 5 Akuila Uate, 6 Lachlan Croker, 7 Daly Cherry-Evans (c), 8 Addin Fonua-Blake, 9 Apisai Koroisau, 10 Martin Taupau, 11 Joel Thompson, 12 Curtis Sironen, 13 Jake Trbojevic.
Interchange: 14 Jackson Hastings, 15 Shaun Lane, 16 Lloyd Perrett, 17 Kelepi Tanginoa.
Reserves: 18 Matthew Wright, 19 Jack Gosiewski, 20 Frank Winterstein, 21 Darcy Lussick.
NRL News:
Manly have announced themselves as a premiership force this season with a historic 54-0 thrashing of arch rivals Parramatta at Lottoland.
As temperatures soared close to 40 degrees on Sunday, the Eels got burnt in what was their biggest ever loss to the Sea Eagles.
The nine-try romp also marked the fifth biggest win in Sea Eagles history, as well as the Eels’ largest defeat in the Brad Arthur era.
Compounding the loss for Arthur was a heavy concussion to hooker Cameron King, who was stretchered from the field after copping a knee to the head from Shaun Lane in the first half.
Tepai Moeroa and Brad Takairangi also headed for early showers after picking up head knocks in the second half, while Mitchell Moses was sin-binned for the second week in a row.
The Sea Eagles were leading 30-0 when Jake Trbojevic scored their sixth try in the 54th minute, prompting the ground announcer to lay the boot into the visitors.
“Scoreboard matching the temperature here at Lottoland,” he told the 10,502 crowd.
But the home side went on to heap further misery on a stunned Eels outfit, with Curtis Sironen and Lloyd Perrett crossing for soft tries against a tiring Eels forward pack.
Cherry-Evans rubbed salt into the wounds by sealing their first win of the season with a 68th minute penalty goal that brought up the half-century.
His only flaw was a missed conversion of Jorge Taufua’s 79th minute try from the sideline, finishing with a personal tally of 22-points.
The Eels completed the first set of the match but it was all downhill from there, failing to get through a play-the-ball for the next 15 minutes.
And it was Cherry-Evans that almost single-handedly put the Eels to the sword in a 25-minute burst, beginning with his individual effort in the fifth minute.
He then nailed a 40-20 that led to Api Koroisau’s try from dummy half, forced a line drop out that resulted in Addin Fonua-Blake’s try, and assisted on Sironen’s try soon after that.
A Lachlan Croker four-pointer gave the Sea Eagles a five-try advantage at the break.
