2012 NRL Premiership: Results and Table

Final NRL Table - Saturday 15th September, 2012

Team	Played	Won	Draw	Lost	F	A	+/-	Points
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs	24	18	0	6	568	369	+199	40
Melbourne Storm	24	17	0	7	579	361	+218	38
South Sydney Rabbitohs	24	16	0	8	559	438	+121	36
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	24	16	0	8	497	403	+94	36
North Queensland Cowboys	24	15	0	9	597	445	+152	34
Canberra Raiders	24	13	0	11	545	536	+9	30
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks	24	12	1	11	445	441	+4	29
Brisbane Broncos	24	12	0	12	481	447	+34	28
St George-Illawarra Dragons	24	11	0	13	405	438	-33	26
Wests Tigers	24	11	0	13	506	551	-45	26
Gold Coast Titans	24	10	0	14	449	477	-28	24
Newcastle Knights	24	10	0	14	448	488	-40	24
Sydney Roosters	24	8	1	15	462	626	-164	21
New Zealand Warriors	24	8	0	16	497	609	-112	20
Penrith Panthers	24	8	0	16	409	575	-166	20
Parramatta Eels	24	6	0	18	431	674	-243	16

2012 NRL Finals

Week 1: (local times)
Canterbury-Bankstown 16 v 10 Manly-Warringah
Melbourne Storm 24 v 6 South Sydney Rabbitohs
Nth Queensland Cowboys 33 v 16 Brisbane Broncos
Canberra Raiders 34 v 16 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks

Week 2:
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 22 v 12 North Queensland Cowboys
South Sydney Rabbitohs 38 v 16 Canberra Raiders

Week 3:
Melbourne Storm 40 v 12 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 32 v 8 South Sydney Rabbitohs

Week 4: GRAND FINAL

Melbourne Storm 14 v 4 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs


Toyota Cup:

Week 1:
Elimination Final 1: St George-Illawarra 44 Penrith 20
Qualifying Final 1: Wests Tigers 24 Canterbury 20
Elimination Final 2: Sydney Roosters 24 South Sydney 22
Qualifying Final 2: NZ Warriors 38 Canberra Raiders 39

Week 2:
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 20 v 46 St-George-Illawarra Dragons
NZ Warriors 10 v 26 Sydney Roosters

Week 3:
Wests Tigers 28 v 22 Sydney Roosters
Canberra Raiders 44 v 16 St George-Illawarra Dragons

Week 4: GRAND FINAL

Wests Tigers 46 v 6 Canberra Raiders

Great job LB , ( could you just move the Eels up a bit though please )

Argh... they're playing at Shark Park I see.

Miracles can happen.

I thought you followed the Rabbits?

Pedant alert!

Shouldn't there be a 6 in Storm's 'Won' column?... I'm guessing...

Eels were always my favourite team growing up , i started following the Rabbitohs a few years back after getting to know an Aussie who came over here to watch the tri nations .

Paramatta will always be no 1 though .

Well spotted Swanny.

For some reason '0' sticks in my mind when talking about the Storm

(2008 GF Shutout..... 40-0)

Are the Eels, the Parrammatta Eels?

Yes.

I've now put up the full team names in the table for you Billy.

Thanks breaker.

When i was in Oz

St George were the dragons
Illawarra were the Steelers
Wests Tigers were two teams Westurn suberbs and Balmain Tigers

Is that correct?

Yes Billy,

Western Suburbs Magpies - the club was in Enmore (near Canterbury - part of 'inner city') and they played at Lidcombe Oval which is further out west along Parramatta Rd (in between Balmain & Parra). The NSW Cup side still plays their games there. Similarly, the Newtown Jets or Bluebags play their home games at Henson Park which is also nearby.

Balmain Tigers - The Club is in Balmain, played at Leichhardt Oval. NSW Cup side is still identical to the old Balmain Tigers. Wests also have their own Western Suburbs Magpies team in the NSW Cup. Both these sides then feed into the Wests-Tigers now.

When they combined to form the Wests-Tigers they built the new clubhouse at Campbelltown (50km from CBD) and play most home games there - miles away from both original clubs on the road towards Canberra.

So effectively their catchment is huge. In between Cronulla, Saints, Canterbury, Souths - and all areas in between and out towards Parramatta and Penrith...which is 60km west from the centre of Sydney and Canberra (to the south-west).

Illawarra / Wollongong area was always a traditionally strong RL nursery for players. Produced many legends of the game. Saints used to draw heavily on those players.

Then in about '82/'83 the Illawarra Steelers became an ARL club in their own right.

Lastly, the club struggled financially and the joint venture was formed with St-George. Home games are played at either Kogarah Oval which is now called WIN Jubilee Oval (near where you stayed in Sans Souci) or down (the escarpment) in Wollongong at WIN Stadium.

I have been to Kogarah Oval, nice place

I know Penrith and Campbelltown well as i have family in a place called The Oaks (near Camden) and i visited them when i was there

The Oaks and Camden area is where the earliest Irish settlers became wealthy land owners... after they had served their sentence of course.

...and were then given free land.

Little did they know they were sitting on some fairly decent pasture land. The original land holdings they were given would be worth a very tidy sum indeed today!

However, it's been constantly subdivided and split up into smaller and smaller land portions.
Like you say though, there's some really nice country in that area and probably some of our oldest history.

One of my ancestors moved there and raised Merino sheep and became quite wealthy. My last name is common there

OK.

So now we know where the term "off the sheep's back" originated.

Tony Robinson did some research on his ancestors and discovered something similar. His ancestors had choice bits of land right in the centre of the Camden. He was flabbergasted to say the least.

You just had to get a sheep shagging pun in didnt you

I have descendants at Camden, The Oaks, Bringelly and loads in Tamworth.
I have only met one family in The Oaks though as they were close decendants. They all dropped the O' before the name though which is strange.

Oh... now that you mention it, it is kind of strange.

They have become weird by living in Oz, the sun has fried their brains

It's freezing there in winter too

Dragons lead the Knights 12-4 at half time.

Go the Dragons

Brisbane leading Canberra 20-6 at HT

Final scores so far.
It remained 12-4 to St George, strangely disallowed try for Newcastle
Brisbane thrashed Canberra 30-6

Storm 12 Bulldogs 6. It was a very tight game with some tough defence from both sides.

There was a controversial penalty to the Storm when the Dogs had a scrum feed 10m out from the posts in the dying staqes of the game.

At half time:
Gold Coast 12 Manly 8
Cowboys 28 Roosters 0

I didn't realise they are playing the Chooks-Cowboys match up in Darwin.
I thought "TIO" was just another new name for the SFS, Aussie Home Loans, Allianz Stadium, etc. Good to see the game played in NT though.

Darwin must be a tough place to play even though it's now officially in the dry season. It's 29 deg with 80% humidity currently.
Max 34 today. They have a special cool room for the players.

Full time:
Gold Coast 26 Manly 14 *
Nth Qld 50 Roosters 12

* it must have been the Country RL socks they wore in honour Kingy's 200th game.

No seriously, Manly were simply out-enthused and out-played.
It was Cherry-Evan's first loss at Brookvale Oval.

Sunday's NRL Results:

Warriors 44 Souths 22
Cronulla 24 Parramatta 18
Wests Tigers 30 Penrith 0

Kangaroo team has just been announced for next weekend's Anzac Test.

Slater
Boyd
Inglis
Hodges
Uate
Thurston
Cronk
Gallen (c)
Smith
Shillington
Taylor
Thaiday
Lewis

Interchange:
Cherry-Evans
Hannant
Tamou
Watmough
Gillett

I think Darwin suited the boys from Townsville a lot more than the boys from Bondi junction.

I know all teams suffer and have to put up with injuries,but the loss of Campese is going to be a big problem for the Raiders.

jee ziz,1,6,7,9, are all Queenslanders we are f....d.

Now you know how us poor 'roaches feel, laurie. It's scary isn't it?

You're right about Darwin. It would have suited the Cowboys. NT is also the 'backyard' of Qld in terms of RL followers.

This is a cockroach set up,you guys just want us to soften then up and then you guys will come along in a couple of weeks and ambush them while theyre beaten up.

OR the more likely scenario,The Queenslanders will use the test as a training run.

ha, NZ should be a decent hit out.
The first SOO is at Etihad so it's like a home game for Qld.

I expect NSW to lose their 7th series in a row.

City Origin v Country Origin
Sunday, 22 April, 19:30
Glenn Willow Sports Complex, Mudgee

City Origin Side:
Lachlan Coote (Penrith Panthers)
David Williams (Manly Warringah Sea Eagles)
Joseph Leilua (Sydney Roosters)
Chris Lawrence (Wests Tigers)
Steve Turner (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs)
Jarryd Hayne (Parramatta Eels)
Mitchell Pearce (Sydney Roosters)
Keith Galloway (Wests Tigers)
Robbie Farah (Wests Tigers)
Tim Mannah (Parramatta Eels)
Ryan Hoffman (Melbourne Storm)
Corey Payne (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs)
Feleti Mateo (New Zealand Warriors)

Interchange:
Aaron Woods (Wests Tigers)
Jason King (Manly Warringah Sea Eagles)
Jamie Buhrer (Manly Warringah Sea Eagles)
Liam Fulton (Wests Tigers)

18th Man:
Bryce Gibbs (Cronulla Sharks)
19th Man:
Wade Graham (Cronulla Sharks)

Country Origin Team:
Brett Morris (St George Illawarra Dragons)
James McManus (Newcastle Knights)
Josh Morris (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs)
Matt King (South Sydney Rabbitohs)
Blake Ferguson (Canberra Raiders)
Todd Carney (Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks)
Jarrod Mullen (Newcastle Knights)
Luke Douglas (Gold Coast Titans)
Ryan Hinchcliffe (Melbourne Storm)
Michael Weyman (St George Illawarra Dragons)
Beau Scott (St George Illawarra Dragons)
Ben Creagh (St George Illawarra Dragons)
Greg Bird (Gold Coast Titans)

Interchange:
Josh McCrone (Canberra Raiders)
Tom Learoyd-Lahrs (Canberra Raiders)
Trent Merrin (St George Illawarra Dragons)
Tariq Sims (North Queensland Cowboys)

18th Man:
Chris Houston (Newcastle Knights)

Country Origin captain Danny Buderus has been ruled out of the City-Country clash on Sunday. Apparently Wayne Bennett wants him rested and no injury was mentioned. This may in turn affect his availability for selection in the upcoming State of Origin.

When i was in OZ, Canterbury was the side to beat. I used to love watching them play. When was the last time they won the comp?

2004... when they beat the Roosters.

They had that horror season in 2002 when they were docked 37 points for salary cap breaches despite winning 20 games.

Cheers breaker, i was there when Jiffy signed for them. That was a huge signing, i never got to see if he did any good though as i had left just after he signed.

When i was back in 97/98 they were also a very good team.

They're very good this year too. They should come close to winning it although Melbourne are rightly the favourites.

I really should be for Cronulla because thats pretty close to where i stayed in Sydney but i have always like Canturbury for some reason

Cronulla look better than ever (for them; apart from the late 90s with the Super League split and they made the GF... only to be thumped by Brisbane)

They're probably my 2nd favourite NRL side. I hope they do well this year.

Surely the table is upside down LB

Pick another team to follow this year. How about the Sharks?

I will keep a look out for them all , then i cant go wrong But i will keep the faith with the Eels aswell

The Anzac Test is on Friday night... 7:30pm kick off, not on the weekend as I stated above.

Can't wait - a war of words has begun regarding the 'reception committee' for the young 116kg Tamou.

It sounds funny when other players say on his behalf: "you're welcome to have a crack at him... but the kid can hold his own."

Final Score:

Kangaroos 20 - 12 Kiwis

Good game. NZ scored first. It was much closer than the experts had predicted.

NSW have won the inaugural U20 State of Origin (Darren Lockyer Shield) beating Queensland 18-14.

Nail-biting final minutes with Qld pressing on the line with 3 repeat sets after the baby Blues kept coughing the ball up.

It could be an omen for the real thing ............go NSW !

City beat Country 24-22 this afternoon after being up 24-0 before half time.

Carney had a blinder... Haynes not so good, threw an intercept pass which started the comeback.

Blake Ferguson and Tariq Sims also played well for Country and Mitchell Pearce and Steve Turner had good games for City.

Linebreaker wrote:City beat Country 24-22 this afternoon after being up 24-0 before half time.

Carney had a blinder... Haynes not so good, threw an intercept pass which started the comeback.

Blake Ferguson and Tariq Sims also played well for Country and Mitchell Pearce and Steve Turner had good games for City.

Some turnaround that.

Dragons defeated the Roosters 28-24. A very late comeback after the Chooks were leading 24-18 with not long to go.

Yesterday, the Melbourne Storm finished strongly to beat the NZ Warriors 32-14... a flattering score considering it was 14 all with not long to go.

sounds a good game , did the Warriors just run out of gas ?