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A final-gasp stroke of genius from fullback Tyrell Sloan has helped St George Illawarra usher within the post-Anthony Griffin period on the membership with an upset win over the Sydney Roosters.
The victory got here in Ryan Carr’s debut as interim Dragons coach, snapping a six-match dropping streak that price Griffin his job on Tuesday and eases the off-field strain that has been constructing on the Dragons.
The Dragons gave up a 14-0 lead within the second half as soon as James Tedesco and Luke Keary started to fireplace and the house aspect threatened to fall in an in depth encounter, simply as they did within the first 5 losses of their 2023 droop.
However with numbers on the left aspect of the sphere within the remaining 20 seconds, Sloan put in a cross-field kick that despatched Mathew Feagai over to degree the scores.
It was a conversion from the maligned Zac Lomax, taking part in his first match again from a two-week spell in reserve grade, that stopped the rot for the Dragons and sealed a well-known win at Kogarah.
The Roosters lifted their sport in a tightly fought second half however have now misplaced their previous three matches by a mixed complete of 92-32 and have failed to attain first-half factors throughout that point.
It has been an alarming fall from grace for the pre-season premiership fancies, who’re set for extra disruption with Tedesco and Lindsay Collins’s impending State of Origin picks.
The Roosters may also doubtless lose Brandon Smith to a thumb harm and Victor Radley to suspension after he was positioned on report for head-butting Dragons prop Blake Lawrie throughout a fracas within the first half.
Tedesco was the perfect in a overwhelmed crew, placing paid to current hypothesis as to his State of Origin credentials by hoisting the Roosters again into the struggle after an error-prone and wasteful first half.
The fullback leapt excessive to catch a wayward Smith go and flop over for a attempt within the fiftieth minute.
Three minutes later he took Nathan Brown’s quick go and tore by means of the center, finally offloading to a flying Keary.
The Dragons’ personal talisman Ben Hunt put his aspect on prime once more with a brief ball out of dummy half that despatched Jaydn Su’A over however Tedesco returned serve to his rival captain.
Moses Suli leapt to area Keary’s kick inside his personal 10 metres however discovered himself pick-pocketed by Tedesco, who crashed over.
The Roosters closing in on victory, however that was till the Dragons caught the defence misplaced as Sloan sealed victory.
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