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2010 NRL Grand Final

The 2010 NRL Grand Final was the conclusive and premiership-deciding game of the 2010 NRL season. Played on Sunday, 3 October at Sydney's ANZ Stadium, the match was contested by the St. George Illawarra Dragons and the Sydney Roosters. It was the first time the two sides met in a grand final. They had played each other twice before during the season, with St. George Illawarra winning on both occasions. St. George Illawarra finished the season as minor premiers as they had the previous season. The Roosters were the previous year's wooden-spooners and only after playing and winning for five consecutive weeks were able to reach the 2010 decider.

2010 (2010) NRL Grand Final  ()
12 Total
SGI 626 32
SYD 80 8
Date3 October 2010
StadiumANZ Stadium
LocationSydney, NSW, Australia
Clive Churchill MedalDarius Boyd (SGI)
National anthemJessica Mauboy
RefereeTony Archer
Shayne Hayne
Paul Holland (Touch Judge)
Jeff Younis (Touch Judge)
Attendance82,334
Broadcast partners
Broadcasters
Commentators
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In the grand final, St. George Illawarra trailed by two points at halftime, but broke the shackles in the second half, keeping the Roosters scoreless while adding 26 points to their score.[1] The game finished with a 24-point margin in favour of St. George Illawarra,[2] claiming their first premiership as a joint-venture club.

Background Edit

The 2010 NRL season was the 103rd season of professional rugby league football club competition in Australia, and the thirteenth run by the National Rugby League. The season commenced on 12 March with sixteen teams competing for the 2010 Telstra Premiership whilst the third season of the National Youth Competition was also in progress. The 2010 season was marred by the Melbourne Storm's admission in April of systematically breaching the salary cap. As part of the NRL's imposed penalties, the Storm were deducted all 8 competition points earned at the time of the announcement, and were barred from receiving points for the rest of the season, guaranteeing them the wooden spoon.

 
ANZ Stadium, where the match was played
Dragons Roosters
Rd.1 Eels Rabbitohs
Rd.2 Bulldogs Tigers
Rd.3 Cowboys Bulldogs
Rd.4 Storm Broncos
Rd.5 Broncos Panthers
Rd.6 Titans Raiders
Rd.7 Roosters Dragons
Rd.8 Cronulla Tigers
Rd.9 Sea Eagles Cowboys
Rd.10 Bulldogs Knights
Rd.11 Raiders Bye
Rd.12 Eels Titans
Rd.13 Warriors Sharks
Rd.14 Bye Storm
Rd.15 Sharks Bye
Rd.16 Tigers Warriors
Rd.17 Panthers Raiders
Rd.18 Bye Rabbitohs
Rd.19 Rabbitohs Bulldogs
Rd.20 Titans Broncos
Rd.21 Broncos Eels
Rd.22 Roosters Dragons
Rd.23 Sea Eagles Sharks
Rd.24 Raiders Titans
Rd.25 Knights Sea Eagles
Rd.26 Rabbitohs Cowboys
QF Sea Eagles Tigers
SF DNP Panthers
PF Tigers Titans
Key:   Win   Loss

St. George Illawarra Dragons Edit

St. George Illawarra qualified for the Grand Final having defeated the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and the Wests Tigers in the finals series. The club had finished the regular season as minor premiers for the second consecutive season.[3] St. George Illawarra suffered a poor record in finals matches, having been knocked out of the finals series in straight sets in 2009, and having qualified for a Grand Final only once (in 1999, their first year as a joint venture) in eight finals appearances since the joint venture came into existence. It had been 31 years since the St. George Dragons side of the joint venture last won a premiership, while the Illawarra Steelers club had never won a premiership or qualified for a Grand Final.[4]

Sydney Roosters Edit

The Sydney Roosters entered the Grand Final from a markedly different path to that of the Dragons. The Roosters had finished the 2009 season on the bottom of the ladder. Under new coach Brian Smith, and having signed troubled star Todd Carney, the Roosters improved to finish sixth on the ladder in 2010, before consecutive finals series victories against the Wests Tigers, the Penrith Panthers and the Gold Coast Titans launched the club into the Grand Final. The Sydney Roosters were thus in a position where they could become the first club since the Western Suburbs Magpies in 1934 to win a premiership after finishing last in the previous season.[5]

Grand final day schedule Edit

Australian rock band You Am I headlined the pre-match entertainment, which also featured Jessica Mauboy, Australian dance act Justice Crew, an ensemble of the Sydney Children's Choir, the Gondwana National Indigenous Children's Choir and the Glebe Public School Choir and a tribute to the NRL's retiring players.[6] The 21 Australian soldiers killed in the war in Afghanistan also received a tribute that concluded with the traditional arrival of a Blackhawk helicopter.[7]

  • 11:45am Gates Open
  • 12:00pm NSW Cup Grand Final Kick Off – Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs v Windsor Wolves
  • 1:45pm NSW Cup Grand Final official presentation
  • 2:00pm Toyota Cup Grand Final Kick Off – South Sydney Rabbitohs v New Zealand Warriors
  • 3:15pm Coin Toss
  • 3:50pm Toyota Cup Grand Final official presentation
  • 4:25pm Telstra Premiership Grand Final teams highlight package
  • 4:36pm Presentation to 300-game and Retiring Players
  • 4:45pm Ken Stephen Medalist, Andrew Ryan, and Toyota National Volunteer of the Year, Greg Carey, deliver Telstra Premiership Grand Final Trophy via the Telstra Child Flight helicopter
  • 4:50pm Pre-game entertainment – Justice Crew, Jessica Mauboy and You Am I with Dan Sultan and Phil Jamieson
  • 5:18pm National Anthem performed, both in Dharawal indigenous language and in English, by Jessica Mauboy with Sydney Children's Choir, Gondwana National Indigenous Children's Choir and Glebe Public School Choir
  • 5:20pm 2010 Telstra Premiership Grand Final – 1st half – St George Illawarra Dragons v Sydney Roosters
  • 6:05pm Blackhawk arrival and Defence tribute
  • 6:20pm 2010 Telstra Premiership Grand Final – 2nd half
  • 7:03pm Telstra Premiership Grand Final official presentation

Match details Edit

The Grand Final commenced at approximately 5.15pm, following the grand finals of the NSW Cup between Windsor Wolves and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and the Toyota Cup between South Sydney Rabbitohs and New Zealand Warriors. The weather was overcast, 13 degrees Celsius, with light rain which meant the two earlier matches had caused the centre of the field to become muddy. A crowd of 82,334 was in attendance for the match.[8]

First half Edit

After a sixth-minute penalty to St. George Illawarra helped them up into good field position, Jamie Soward from the ten-metre line kicked the ball over into the Roosters' in-goal and Mark Gasnier, racing through from the right side, leapt to catch it on the full and put it down just inside the dead ball line.[9] The video referee Bill Harrigan awarded the try and Soward's conversion was successful, so St. George Illawarra was leading 6-0 after eight minutes. However, video replays showed that in the lead up to the try, St. George Illawarra winger Brett Morris had passed the ball with a foot outside the touch-line so play should not have been allowed to continue.[10] Later, in the sixteenth minute, the Sydney Roosters had made their way up into better field position when Todd Carney, twenty metres from the opposition try-line's right side, kicked high to the left corner. His winger Joseph Leilua caught the ball, crashed over the try-line, and while attempting to put it down had it knocked from his outstretched hand by Jamie Soward's knee, but Roosters captain Braith Anasta was there to ground it.[11] The video referee was again called upon to award the try, and with Carney's kick going wide the score was 6-4 in favour of the Red & Whites. Less than two minutes after the restart of play St. George Illawarra knocked on in their own half and the Tricolours, after getting within fifteen metres of the try-line, moved the ball through the hands from the left side of the field to the right where Mitchell Aubusson crashed over near the corner.[12] Carney again missed the conversion but his side was now in the lead 8-6 with a quarter of the match gone. In the twenty-sixth minute St. George Illawarra were awarded a penalty in a goal-kicking position but Soward missed.[13] At the thirty-minute mark St. George Illawarra prop Michael Weyman was helped off the field after getting a swinging arm to the head from Daniel Conn which was placed on report.[14] The third quarter of the match was played in both ends of the ground with neither side able to turn their opportunities into points, so the teams left the field with the Sydney Roosters leading 8-6.[15]

Second half Edit

32 St George Illawarra Dragons
 
Tries 2 Nightingale (46', 60')
1 Gasnier (8')
1 Young (63')
1 Fien (70')
Goals 6/7 Soward
(9', 47', 61', 64', 67', 71')

8

Sydney Roosters
Tries 1 Anasta (16')
1 Aubusson (20')
Goals 0/2 Carney

Less than six minutes after the break and having forced the Sydney Roosters to do a goal-line drop-out, St. George Illawarra got their first try of the half. On the second tackle and twenty metres out, the ball made its way through their hands to right winger Jason Nightingale who stepped around his defender and dove over in the corner.[16] Soward's kick from the sideline added the extra two points, so St. George Illawarra led 12 - 8. The rain had started falling heavily when the Red & Whites scored another similar try, with a long cut-out pass going to ground but Nightingale was able to pick it up and cross in his corner again.[17] Soward again kicked the extras, pushing his side's lead out to 18 - 8 with a quarter of the match remaining. About two minutes later St. George Illawarra had again worked the ball up into an attacking position when Nathan Fien, less than ten metres from the uprights, darted ahead from dummy half before passing to Dean Young who juggled the ball as he crashed through the defence and over the line.[18] The video referee awarded the try 'benefit of the doubt' and with Soward adding the extras the Dragons were now leading 24 - 8. The Roosters, still unable to get the ball out of their danger zone conceded another penalty in front of their posts and Soward added another two points for his team, making it 26 - 8. Further errors from the Tricolours led to another White & Red attacking wave and another close-range try, with Fien pushing through the goal-line defence from dummy half. After another simple kick for Soward, St. George Illawarra lead 32 - 8, and with no more points in the remaining eight minutes this was the full-time score to secure St. George Illawarra their first premiership as a joint-venture side. The premiership also ended 31 years of hurt for St. George fans as the club had previously lost finals in 1985, 1992, 1993, 1996 and 1999.[19][20]

Timeline Edit

-8th: Dragons 6–0 (Try: Gasnier, Goal: Soward)
-16th: Roosters 6-4 (Try: Anasta)
-20th: Roosters 8-6 (Try: Aubusson)
-46th: Dragons 12-8 (Try: Nightingale, Goal: Soward)
-60th: Dragons 18-8 (Try: Nightingale, Goal: Soward)
-63rd: Dragons 24-8 (Try: Young, Goal: Soward)
-67th: Dragons 26-8 (Penalty Goal: Soward)
-70th: Dragons 32-8 (Try: Fien, Goal: Soward)

It was the third time in the 2010 season that St. George Illawarra had trailed the Sydney Roosters at halftime before keeping them scoreless in the second half to win. St. George Illawarra fullback Darius Boyd was judged by Australian selectors to be awarded the Clive Churchill Medal for man of the match.[21] Boyd became the fourth fullback to win the Clive Churchill, after Newcastle's Robbie O'Davis (1997), former Brisbane teammate Darren Lockyer (2000) and Melbourne's Billy Slater (2009). Boyd had a hand in both of Nightingale's tries and made 111 metres from 13 hit-ups.[22] This was Boyd's second premiership win, having won with the Brisbane Broncos in his debut season in 2006.

Audience Edit

Australia's national television audience for the match was over 3.1 million and up on the previous year's decider in Sydney and Brisbane.[23] A further 197,000 people watched the game live in New Zealand.[24]

Telecast Details Edit

2011 World Club Challenge Edit

Having won the NRL grand final, St. George Illawarra had earned the right to play against 2010's Super League XV Champions, the Wigan Warriors in the following February's World Club Challenge, which they won 21-15.

References Edit

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  2. ^ "Club history". St George Illawarra Dragons. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  3. ^ Webster, Andrew (27 September 2010). "St. George Illawarra Dragons steeled by the lessons of last season". foxsports.com.au. News Limited. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  4. ^ Riccio, David (25 July 2010). "Chokers tag is suffocating Dragons". The Daily Telegraph. News Limited. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  5. ^ Barrett, Chris (22 September 2010). "The wooden spoon to premier gold? Roosters run recalls league history". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
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  8. ^ Wilson, Andy (3 October 2010). "St George Illawarra Dragons beat Sydney Roosters in NRL Grand Final". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
  9. ^ Crawford, Adrian (4 October 2010). "Dragons romp to sweet 16th". ABC News. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
  10. ^ Read, Brent (4 October 2010). "Wayne Bennett's Dragons blow away critics to end 31-year drought". The Australian. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
  11. ^ Madame H (3 October 2010). "Bennett's Boys End Finals Drought". Triple M Sport. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
  12. ^ Jancetic, Steve (4 October 2010). "Dragons break drought with huge win". Coolum & North Shore News. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
  13. ^ Wang, Chris (3 October 2010). "Dragons rain on Roosters grand final parade". Wide World of Sports.
  14. ^ Nicolussi, Christian (3 October 2010). "Rooster says Weyman may have conned ref". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
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  16. ^ Robertson, Greg (3 October 2010). . 3 News. Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
  17. ^ Russell, Glenn (3 October 2010). "NRL GF: Score by Score". sportal.co.nz. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
  18. ^ Brent, Read (3 October 2010). "Tears flow as Dragons break drought with win over Roosters in NRL grand final". The Australian. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
  19. ^ AP (3 October 2010). . IBN Live News. Archived from the original on 6 October 2010. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
  20. ^ "Dragons romp to sweet 16th". ABC News. 3 October 2010.
  21. ^ Chammas, Michael (4 October 2010). "2010 Clive Churchill winner Darius Boyd". Illawarra Mercury. Australia: Fairfax Media. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
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  23. ^ "NRL grand final telecast attracts 3.1 million viewers". The Courier-Mail. 4 October 2010. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
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The 2010 NRL Grand Final was the conclusive and premiership deciding game of the 2010 NRL season Played on Sunday 3 October at Sydney s ANZ Stadium the match was contested by the St George Illawarra Dragons and the Sydney Roosters It was the first time the two sides met in a grand final They had played each other twice before during the season with St George Illawarra winning on both occasions St George Illawarra finished the season as minor premiers as they had the previous season The Roosters were the previous year s wooden spooners and only after playing and winning for five consecutive weeks were able to reach the 2010 decider 2010 2010 NRL Grand Final St George IllawarraDragons SydneyRoosters32 812 TotalSGI 626 32SYD 80 8Date3 October 2010StadiumANZ StadiumLocationSydney NSW AustraliaClive Churchill MedalDarius Boyd SGI National anthemJessica MauboyRefereeTony ArcherShayne HaynePaul Holland Touch Judge Jeff Younis Touch Judge Attendance82 334Broadcast partnersBroadcastersNine NetworkCommentatorsRay WarrenPeter SterlingPhil GouldNRL Grand Final 20092011 In the grand final St George Illawarra trailed by two points at halftime but broke the shackles in the second half keeping the Roosters scoreless while adding 26 points to their score 1 The game finished with a 24 point margin in favour of St George Illawarra 2 claiming their first premiership as a joint venture club Contents 1 Background 1 1 St George Illawarra Dragons 1 2 Sydney Roosters 2 Grand final day schedule 3 Match details 3 1 First half 3 2 Second half 3 3 Timeline 4 Audience 4 1 Telecast Details 5 2011 World Club Challenge 6 ReferencesBackground EditSee also 2010 NRL season The 2010 NRL season was the 103rd season of professional rugby league football club competition in Australia and the thirteenth run by the National Rugby League The season commenced on 12 March with sixteen teams competing for the 2010 Telstra Premiership whilst the third season of the National Youth Competition was also in progress The 2010 season was marred by the Melbourne Storm s admission in April of systematically breaching the salary cap As part of the NRL s imposed penalties the Storm were deducted all 8 competition points earned at the time of the announcement and were barred from receiving points for the rest of the season guaranteeing them the wooden spoon nbsp ANZ Stadium where the match was playedDragons RoostersRd 1 Eels RabbitohsRd 2 Bulldogs TigersRd 3 Cowboys BulldogsRd 4 Storm BroncosRd 5 Broncos PanthersRd 6 Titans RaidersRd 7 Roosters DragonsRd 8 Cronulla TigersRd 9 Sea Eagles CowboysRd 10 Bulldogs KnightsRd 11 Raiders ByeRd 12 Eels TitansRd 13 Warriors SharksRd 14 Bye StormRd 15 Sharks ByeRd 16 Tigers WarriorsRd 17 Panthers RaidersRd 18 Bye RabbitohsRd 19 Rabbitohs BulldogsRd 20 Titans BroncosRd 21 Broncos EelsRd 22 Roosters DragonsRd 23 Sea Eagles SharksRd 24 Raiders TitansRd 25 Knights Sea EaglesRd 26 Rabbitohs CowboysQF Sea Eagles TigersSF DNP PanthersPF Tigers TitansKey Win LossSt George Illawarra Dragons Edit Main article 2010 St George Illawarra Dragons season St George Illawarra qualified for the Grand Final having defeated the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles and the Wests Tigers in the finals series The club had finished the regular season as minor premiers for the second consecutive season 3 St George Illawarra suffered a poor record in finals matches having been knocked out of the finals series in straight sets in 2009 and having qualified for a Grand Final only once in 1999 their first year as a joint venture in eight finals appearances since the joint venture came into existence It had been 31 years since the St George Dragons side of the joint venture last won a premiership while the Illawarra Steelers club had never won a premiership or qualified for a Grand Final 4 Sydney Roosters Edit Main article 2010 Sydney Roosters season The Sydney Roosters entered the Grand Final from a markedly different path to that of the Dragons The Roosters had finished the 2009 season on the bottom of the ladder Under new coach Brian Smith and having signed troubled star Todd Carney the Roosters improved to finish sixth on the ladder in 2010 before consecutive finals series victories against the Wests Tigers the Penrith Panthers and the Gold Coast Titans launched the club into the Grand Final The Sydney Roosters were thus in a position where they could become the first club since the Western Suburbs Magpies in 1934 to win a premiership after finishing last in the previous season 5 Grand final day schedule EditAustralian rock band You Am I headlined the pre match entertainment which also featured Jessica Mauboy Australian dance act Justice Crew an ensemble of the Sydney Children s Choir the Gondwana National Indigenous Children s Choir and the Glebe Public School Choir and a tribute to the NRL s retiring players 6 The 21 Australian soldiers killed in the war in Afghanistan also received a tribute that concluded with the traditional arrival of a Blackhawk helicopter 7 11 45am Gates Open 12 00pm NSW Cup Grand Final Kick Off Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs v Windsor Wolves 1 45pm NSW Cup Grand Final official presentation 2 00pm Toyota Cup Grand Final Kick Off South Sydney Rabbitohs v New Zealand Warriors 3 15pm Coin Toss 3 50pm Toyota Cup Grand Final official presentation 4 25pm Telstra Premiership Grand Final teams highlight package 4 36pm Presentation to 300 game and Retiring Players 4 45pm Ken Stephen Medalist Andrew Ryan and Toyota National Volunteer of the Year Greg Carey deliver Telstra Premiership Grand Final Trophy via the Telstra Child Flight helicopter 4 50pm Pre game entertainment Justice Crew Jessica Mauboy and You Am I with Dan Sultan and Phil Jamieson 5 18pm National Anthem performed both in Dharawal indigenous language and in English by Jessica Mauboy with Sydney Children s Choir Gondwana National Indigenous Children s Choir and Glebe Public School Choir 5 20pm 2010 Telstra Premiership Grand Final 1st half St George Illawarra Dragons v Sydney Roosters 6 05pm Blackhawk arrival and Defence tribute 6 20pm 2010 Telstra Premiership Grand Final 2nd half 7 03pm Telstra Premiership Grand Final official presentationMatch details EditThe Grand Final commenced at approximately 5 15pm following the grand finals of the NSW Cup between Windsor Wolves and Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs and the Toyota Cup between South Sydney Rabbitohs and New Zealand Warriors The weather was overcast 13 degrees Celsius with light rain which meant the two earlier matches had caused the centre of the field to become muddy A crowd of 82 334 was in attendance for the match 8 First half Edit St George IllawarraDragons Posit Sydney Roosters1 Darius Boyd FB 1 Anthony Minichiello2 Brett Morris WG 2 Joseph Leilua3 Mark Gasnier CE 3 Kane Linnett4 Matt Cooper CE 4 Shaun Kenny Dowall5 Jason Nightingale WG 5 Sam Perrett6 Jamie Soward 5 8th 6 Todd Carney7 Ben Hornby c HB 7 Mitchell Pearce8 Neville Costigan PR 8 Jason Ryles9 Dean Young HK 9 Jake Friend10 Michael Weyman PR 20 Lopini Paea11 Beau Scott SR 11 Nate Myles12 Ben Creagh SR 12 Mitchell Aubusson13 Jeremy Smith LF 13 Braith Anasta c 14 Nathan Fien Int 10 Frank Paul Nu uausala15 Trent Merrin Int 14 Martin Kennedy16 Matt Prior Int 15 Jared Waerea Hargreaves17 Jarrod Saffy Int 16 Daniel ConnWayne Bennett Coach Brian SmithAfter a sixth minute penalty to St George Illawarra helped them up into good field position Jamie Soward from the ten metre line kicked the ball over into the Roosters in goal and Mark Gasnier racing through from the right side leapt to catch it on the full and put it down just inside the dead ball line 9 The video referee Bill Harrigan awarded the try and Soward s conversion was successful so St George Illawarra was leading 6 0 after eight minutes However video replays showed that in the lead up to the try St George Illawarra winger Brett Morris had passed the ball with a foot outside the touch line so play should not have been allowed to continue 10 Later in the sixteenth minute the Sydney Roosters had made their way up into better field position when Todd Carney twenty metres from the opposition try line s right side kicked high to the left corner His winger Joseph Leilua caught the ball crashed over the try line and while attempting to put it down had it knocked from his outstretched hand by Jamie Soward s knee but Roosters captain Braith Anasta was there to ground it 11 The video referee was again called upon to award the try and with Carney s kick going wide the score was 6 4 in favour of the Red amp Whites Less than two minutes after the restart of play St George Illawarra knocked on in their own half and the Tricolours after getting within fifteen metres of the try line moved the ball through the hands from the left side of the field to the right where Mitchell Aubusson crashed over near the corner 12 Carney again missed the conversion but his side was now in the lead 8 6 with a quarter of the match gone In the twenty sixth minute St George Illawarra were awarded a penalty in a goal kicking position but Soward missed 13 At the thirty minute mark St George Illawarra prop Michael Weyman was helped off the field after getting a swinging arm to the head from Daniel Conn which was placed on report 14 The third quarter of the match was played in both ends of the ground with neither side able to turn their opportunities into points so the teams left the field with the Sydney Roosters leading 8 6 15 Second half Edit 32 St George Illawarra Dragons nbsp Tries 2 Nightingale 46 60 1 Gasnier 8 1 Young 63 1 Fien 70 Goals 6 7 Soward 9 47 61 64 67 71 8 Sydney RoostersTries 1 Anasta 16 1 Aubusson 20 Goals 0 2 CarneyLess than six minutes after the break and having forced the Sydney Roosters to do a goal line drop out St George Illawarra got their first try of the half On the second tackle and twenty metres out the ball made its way through their hands to right winger Jason Nightingale who stepped around his defender and dove over in the corner 16 Soward s kick from the sideline added the extra two points so St George Illawarra led 12 8 The rain had started falling heavily when the Red amp Whites scored another similar try with a long cut out pass going to ground but Nightingale was able to pick it up and cross in his corner again 17 Soward again kicked the extras pushing his side s lead out to 18 8 with a quarter of the match remaining About two minutes later St George Illawarra had again worked the ball up into an attacking position when Nathan Fien less than ten metres from the uprights darted ahead from dummy half before passing to Dean Young who juggled the ball as he crashed through the defence and over the line 18 The video referee awarded the try benefit of the doubt and with Soward adding the extras the Dragons were now leading 24 8 The Roosters still unable to get the ball out of their danger zone conceded another penalty in front of their posts and Soward added another two points for his team making it 26 8 Further errors from the Tricolours led to another White amp Red attacking wave and another close range try with Fien pushing through the goal line defence from dummy half After another simple kick for Soward St George Illawarra lead 32 8 and with no more points in the remaining eight minutes this was the full time score to secure St George Illawarra their first premiership as a joint venture side The premiership also ended 31 years of hurt for St George fans as the club had previously lost finals in 1985 1992 1993 1996 and 1999 19 20 Timeline Edit 8th Dragons 6 0 Try Gasnier Goal Soward 16th Roosters 6 4 Try Anasta 20th Roosters 8 6 Try Aubusson 46th Dragons 12 8 Try Nightingale Goal Soward 60th Dragons 18 8 Try Nightingale Goal Soward 63rd Dragons 24 8 Try Young Goal Soward 67th Dragons 26 8 Penalty Goal Soward 70th Dragons 32 8 Try Fien Goal Soward It was the third time in the 2010 season that St George Illawarra had trailed the Sydney Roosters at halftime before keeping them scoreless in the second half to win St George Illawarra fullback Darius Boyd was judged by Australian selectors to be awarded the Clive Churchill Medal for man of the match 21 Boyd became the fourth fullback to win the Clive Churchill after Newcastle s Robbie O Davis 1997 former Brisbane teammate Darren Lockyer 2000 and Melbourne s Billy Slater 2009 Boyd had a hand in both of Nightingale s tries and made 111 metres from 13 hit ups 22 This was Boyd s second premiership win having won with the Brisbane Broncos in his debut season in 2006 Audience EditAustralia s national television audience for the match was over 3 1 million and up on the previous year s decider in Sydney and Brisbane 23 A further 197 000 people watched the game live in New Zealand 24 Telecast Details Edit Australia Nine Network live from 5pm AEST with coverage beginning at 12pm also simulcast on Gem HD A replay of the game will be played on Fox Sports at 8pm AEST on the same night New Zealand Sky Sports live from 6 30pm NZ time Prime Delayed Coverage Asia Pacific Australia Network includes China Hong Kong Macau Taiwan Japan South Korea North Korea Vietnam Indonesia Singapore Thailand Philippines Palau Malaysia Cambodia Burma Myanmar Laos Brunei Fiji Western Samoa Tonga Cook Islands Tuvalu East Timor Vanuatu New Caledonia Solomon Islands Marshall Islands Nauru Micronesia Kiribati Indian subcontinent Australia Network includes India Pakistan Sri Lanka Bangladesh Nepal Bhutan Ireland and the United Kingdom Sky Sports live from 7am Premier Sports Delayed Coverage Middle East Australia Network and ShowSports United States America One live from 9pm ET PT 25 Canada Setanta Sports Canada live 2011 World Club Challenge EditMain article 2011 World Club Challenge Having won the NRL grand final St George Illawarra had earned the right to play against 2010 s Super League XV Champions the Wigan Warriors in the following February s World Club Challenge which they won 21 15 References Edit Proszenko Adrian 4 October 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