Brothers are Aussie club champs
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:29
Queensland 2009 Premiers Brothers held off a late charge by 2009 Shute Shield winners Sydney University to win an exciting Australian Club Championship challenge 36-26 at Crosby Park in Brisbane on Saturday.
Given the responsibility of defending the title won by Easts over Sydney University in the equivalent fixture in Sydney last year, Brothers rose to the challenge and scored five tries to three in a fast, open game enjoyed by the large crowd at Brothers' home ground.
Brothers led 12-9 at half-time and looked like they would run away with the match at 26-14, but University came charging back to trail 29-26 and had all the momentum with five minutes to play, until a Brothers try to centre Nathanuel Gendle sealed the match for the home side.
Both teams were a shadow of the sides that won their respective Premier competitions due to retirements, representative commitments and pre-season rustiness, but they showed enough skill and speed under the new law interpretations to send warning signals to the other teams in their respective competitions.
"The new interpretations play right into our hands, we want to use the football, we want to play with width," said Brothers coach Zane Hilton.
"The same with University, they played some outstanding footy when they got quick ball."
Scorers:
For Brothers:
Tries: Jones, Harvey, Murphy, McLay, Gendle
Cons: Murphy 4
Pen: Murphy
For Sydney University:
Tries: McDuling 2, Schwager
Con: Bosilkovski
Pens: Bosilkovski 3
Teams:
Brothers: 15 Damon Murphy, 14 Anthony Pyers, 13 James Harvey, 12 Nathanuel Gendle, 11 Paul Doneley, 10 Dallan Murphy, (captain), 9 Sam Grasso, 8 Ben McCormack, 7 Andrew Shaw, 6 Simon Price, 5 Trent Jones, 4 Marcus Slade, 3 Adrian
Dixon, 2 Andrew Coady, 1 Adam Bennie.
Replacements: 16 Tom Sayer, 17 Peter Haig, 18 Dave Gornal, 19 Ally McLay, 20 Chris Ferraro, 21 Blair Hart, 22 Patrick McGill.
Sydney University: 15 Justin Bosilkovski, 14 Robert O'Reilly, 13 Tom Kingston, 12 Toby L'Estrange, 11 Tom Tombleson, 10 Joshua Dillon, 9 Mathew Schwager, 8 Adam Campbell, 7 Josh Ellice-Flint, 6 Hugh Hawkins, 5 David McDuling, 4 Sam Carter, 3 Paddy Ryan, 2 Thomas Coolican, 1 Alasdair King.
Replacements - from: Danny Farrell, Duncan Hardy, James McMahon, Anthony Pohlen, James Helliwell, Greg Jeloudev, Peter Playford, Scott Cameron.
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