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2008 Telstra NRL Premiership

Round 25

Newcastle Knights 17 def. Melbourne Storm 16

2008 Telstra NRL Premiership
Round 25
Newcastle
Knights
17
16 Melbourne
Storm
Match Info
Match URL www.rugbyleagueproject.org/matches/14665
Status Completed
Date Saturday, 30th August, 2008
Kick Off 5:30pm (local time)
Referee Shayne Hayne
Touch Judges Bernard Sutton (Coonabarabran), Paul Holland
Video Ref Paul Simpkins
Venue EnergyAustralia (Newcastle)
Crowd 19,568
Match Stats
Halftime Score 10 6
Scrums 9 13
Penalties 8 6
Newcastle Scoresheet Melbourne
Matt HILDER T Israel FOLAU
Jesse ROYAL   Greg INGLIS
      Sika MANU
 
Kurt GIDLEY 4/4 G 2/3 Cameron SMITH
 
Scott DUREAU FG    
Newcastle Teams Melbourne
Kurt GIDLEY (c) 1 FB 1 Billy SLATER
James McMANUS 2 W 3 Matt GEYER
Junior SA'U 3 C 4 Israel FOLAU
Adam MacDOUGALL 4 C 19 Russell AITKEN
Wes NAIQAMA 5 W 5 Anthony QUINN
 
Jarrod MULLEN 6 FE 6 Greg INGLIS
Scott DUREAU 7 HB 7 Cooper CRONK
 
Matthew WHITE 17 FR 8 Jeff LIMA
Matt HILDER 14 HK 9 Cameron SMITH (c)
Ben CROSS 10 FR 10 Brett WHITE
Steve SIMPSON 11 2R 11 Michael CROCKER
Cory PATERSON 20 2R 16 Sika MANU
Mark TAUFUA 13 L 13 Dallas JOHNSON
 
Jesse ROYAL 15 B 12 Jeremy SMITH
Chris BAILEY 16 B 14 Aiden TOLMAN
Chris HOUSTON 18 B 15 Adam BLAIR
Marvin KARAWANA 21 B 17 Antonio KAUFUSI
 
Brian SMITH   HC   Craig BELLAMY
   
 

Team Info

Newcastle

Previous Game:
Round 24 vs. North Qld
Next Game:
Round 26 vs. Brisbane
Out:
Daniel Tolar (front row), Danny Buderus (hooker), Cameron Ciraldo (second row), Richard Fa'aoso (bench), Danny Wicks (bench)
In:
Matthew White (front row), Steve Simpson (second row), Cory Paterson (second row), Mark Taufua (lock), Marvin Karawana (bench)
Changes:
Chris Houston (second row to bench), Matt Hilder (lock to hooker)

Melbourne

Previous Game:
Round 24 vs. Penrith
Next Game:
Round 26 vs. South Sydney
Out:
Steve Turner (wing), Scott Anderson (bench)
In:
Russell Aitken (centre), Aiden Tolman (bench)
Changes:
Matt Geyer (centre to wing), Jeremy Smith (second row to bench), Sika Manu (bench to second row)

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