The Aussies celebrated the opening of Melbourne’s brand new AAMI Park by a short win over NZ, 12-8. In front of a sell out crowd of almost 30,000 spectators and under a heavy rain, the Green and Gold superstars had to fight hard to beat their injured hit rivals.
Try scoring machine left-winger Brett Morris scored twice on each side of the half with a penalty and conversion from Manly centre Jamie Lyon to put the locals 12-0 up. Outsatnding performances from the 2009 Golden Boot Greg Inglis and Broncos second-row Sam Thaiday also put the Kangaroos in the right direction.
But the Kiwis never stopped fighting and scored twice in the last twelve minutes by Morris’s teammate at St George Illawara Jason Nightingale and Newcastle centre Junior Sau. The visitors could have levelled the score if South Sydney hooker Issac Luke did not miss both conversions.
With already 12 tries this season for the Dragons, Brett Morris took his total to eight tries in only five tests. Only one year after his test debut in the Four Nations, of which he finished top try scorer, the 23 year old is already looking up to beat Ken Irvine record of 33 tries for the Green and Gold jersey. But can he do it in only 31 tests like Irvine did?
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Try scoring machine left-winger Brett Morris scored twice on each side of the half with a penalty and conversion from Manly centre Jamie Lyon to put the locals 12-0 up. Outsatnding performances from the 2009 Golden Boot Greg Inglis and Broncos second-row Sam Thaiday also put the Kangaroos in the right direction.
But the Kiwis never stopped fighting and scored twice in the last twelve minutes by Morris’s teammate at St George Illawara Jason Nightingale and Newcastle centre Junior Sau. The visitors could have levelled the score if South Sydney hooker Issac Luke did not miss both conversions.
With already 12 tries this season for the Dragons, Brett Morris took his total to eight tries in only five tests. Only one year after his test debut in the Four Nations, of which he finished top try scorer, the 23 year old is already looking up to beat Ken Irvine record of 33 tries for the Green and Gold jersey. But can he do it in only 31 tests like Irvine did?
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