NSW coach Brad Fittler has confirmed Boyd Cordner won t play Origin this year despite the former captain closing in on an NRL return, opening the door for a couple of Eels to make their debut.
Cordner is expected to return to the paddock next month after missing the first half of the season due to a heavy knock suffered in last November s Ampol State of Origin series opener.
The Roosters have adopted an extra-cautious approach around his return and Fittler, discussing the make-up of his Origin I side at a media conference at NSWRL headquarters on Wednesday, said Cordner would not be considered for selection later in the series.
Winners
The Wests Tigers couldn t get the win against the Titans but it was through no lack of effort from their five-eighth Adam Doueihi, who registered his best NRL Fantasy score of 103 with a try and two try assists to go with five busts and a stack of run and kick metres.
Tom Trbojevic finished with an even 100 as his remarkable run continued on the back of two tries, four try assists and eight busts.
Nathan Cleary was back to his high-scoring ways, barely raising a sweat in cranking out 88 for the second-top score of the week. Jason Taumalolo was also back to his best, almost reaching his very high break-even with a powerful 84 against Brisbane.
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The Canberra Raiders have thrown away yet another half-time lead, succumbing to their fifth-consecutive loss as the Newcastle Knights came from behind to win 24-16.
Ricky Stuart s men have now won just one of their past seven games, throwing away big halftime leads in four of those defeats.
Canberra led the opening game of Super Saturday 16-0 as the siren sounded for the first half in Wagga Wagga today, 16-14 against Souths last week, 24-12 against the Cowboys the week before that and 25-6 against the Warriors back in round three. I honestly can t put my finger on it, said Josh Papalii when asked about the Raiders performances late in games.
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The Newcastle Knights scored 24 unanswered points in the second half to continue Canberra’s form slump, beating the Raiders 24-16 at McDonalds Park in Wagga Wagga.
Looking dispirited and low on confidence in the first half, the Knights rallied from 16-0 down to continue the misery for the Raiders in second halves in 2021. It was a relief. to turn that around in the second half and come back I wouldn’t have asked for that earlier in the week, but it was what we needed, it was character building,” Knights coach Adam O’Brien said.