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ROUND 08 Live commentary: 7th min: A great opening to the match with both teams looking very sharp. No score yet. 8th min: TRY - Tigers. Benji Marshall puts Anthony Laffranchi over for a great opening try to the match with great skill shown by Benji Marshall and Todd Payten. Conversion successful. Tigers 6-0. 12th min: The Tigers are looking very sharp early on and the Dragons are taking in the deep breaths to keep up with the play. Skandalis and Marshall are having impressive games. 16th min: TRY - Dragons. Albert Torrens scores off a great cross field kick from Matthew Head but the video replay has revealed Torrens lost the ball over the line. Daniel Fitzhenry wanted nothing to do with it and has made the Tigers pay the price. Conversion successful. 6 all. 21st min: TRY - Tigers. Brett Hodgson scores off a set play from the scrum and races away 50 metres to score adjacent to the posts. Conversion successful. Tigers 12-6. 28th min: No try - Dragons. Albert Torrens hass taken out the corner post as the Tigers bring the ball back to the 20 metre line and Robbie Farah catches the Dragons defence napping to go on a long run into Dragons territory. 31st min: TRY - Tigers. Liam Fulton scores off a Brett Hodgson pass to put the Tigers into a commanding position with less than ten minutes to the half time break. Conversion successful. Tigers 18-6. 33rd min: TRY - Dragons. Albert Torrens scores after Liam Fulton had the ball stripped by Mark Gasnier to get the Dragons back into the match. Conversion successful. Tigers 18-12. 39th min: TRY - Tigers. Liam Fulton gets a double to enable the Tigers to take a handy lead going into half time. Conversion successful. Tigers 24-12. HALF TIME: The Tigers have completely dominated the first half and it is refelcted in a twelve point lead to the Tigers. Saints have it all to do in the second half if they are to win this match. 41st min: TRY - Dragons. Colin Best scores immediately after the kick off as the Tigers fumble the ball. Conversion successful. Tigers 24-18. NEWS: Matthew Head has left the field on the medi cab and is now on cructches. Once the extent of the injury is know, we will report and info we have. Benjo Marshall also looks to have sustained a shoulder injury in the first minute of the second half. 51st min: PENALTY GOAL - Tigers. Brett Hodgson kicks the Tigers to a handy eight point lead. Tigers 26-18. 58th min: NO TRY - Dragons. Michael Ennis denied. Contentious decision as the video ref throws back to Jason Robinson for a refs call and Robinson calls held up on the second tackle. A round of boos greets the referee's decision. 61st min: TRY - Dragons. Ben Hornby passes to Gasnier and then Gasnier onto Creagh for the try to set up a thrilling finish to the match with the Dragons coming home with a wet sail. Conversion unsuccessful. Tigers 26-22. 66th min: TRY - Dragons. Mark Gasnier scores a great try as the Dragons continue their second half resurgence and a successful kick will put the Dragons in front for the first time in the match. Conversion successful. Dragons 28-26. 69th min: TRY - Dragons. Another converted try to virtually assure the Dragons win a hard fought match. Conversion successful. Dragons 34-26. 76th min: No change in the score and St George Illawarra have the game won after the Tigers try valiantly to bridge the gap but it has proven to be a bridge too far. 78th min: TRY - Dragons. Ben Hornby stretches out to score and extend the Dragons lead. The scoreline has not been an indication of how close this game really was. Conversion successful. Dragons 40-26. 80th min: TRY - Tigers. Todd Payten scores to give the final scoreline some respectability. Conversion successful. Dragons 40-32. FULL TIME: The Dragons have run out winners after a mighty second half to overrun the Tigers in the second half. The Dragons have recorded back to back wins for the first time this year. The Tigers now find themselves in a precarious position after losing a game they really should have won.
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