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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.
O Brien hails character building Knights comeback
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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.
Raiders: Prop Josh Papalii makes a welcome return from a week off to refresh mentally .
Halfback George Williams is also back after he was a late scratching in warm-up last week due to a hamstring strain but Josh Hodgson (calf) and Jarrod Croker (shoulder) have had their returns delayed by at least a week.
Sebastian Kris (ankle) has been named in the centres despite fears he had suffered a syndesmosis injury against the Rabbitohs and will have to be cleared to take his place.
Ryan James and Dunamis Lui were dropped from the 21-man squad 24 hours out from kick-off.
The Raiders have been outscored 69-8 in their past four second halves.
Round 9 Late Mail
Dragons v Bulldogs, Sunday 4.05pm at Netstrata Jubilee Stadium
Dragons: Mathew Feagai will make his NRL debut in place of Cody Ramsey (rib) on the wing, while Junior Amone also makes his NRL debut from the bench.
Tyrell Fuimaono comes in at centre to repace Zac Lomax (dislocated thumb).
Ramsey and Adam Clune dropped out of the extended squad 24 hours before kick-off while Poasa Faamausili was the last man cut an hour before kick-off. Jackson Ford is 18th man.
Dragons fullback Matt Dufty has scored nine tries in his past eight games at Kogarah.
Bulldogs: Lachlan Lewis and Ofahiki Ogden were added to the bench an hour before kick-off with Matt Doorey reverting to 18th man.