Adam Cuthbertson ... scores his second try for Newcastle. Source: Gregg Porteous / News Limited
Move over Kurt Gidley - there's a new halfback in town.
| 5 Tries 2 | |
|---|---|
| Akuila Uate 15' | Joel Thompson 29' |
| Anthony Quinn 21' | Josh Papalii 33' |
| Tyrone Roberts 51' | |
| Adam Cuthbertson 63' | |
| Adam Cuthbertson 77' | |
| 4 Conversions2 | |
| Kurt Gidley 17' | Jarrod Croker 30' |
| Tyrone Roberts 52' | Jarrod Croker 34' |
| Tyrone Roberts 65' | |
| Tyrone Roberts 79' | |
For the second successive week young Tyrone Roberts has laid claims to being Newcastle's long-term No.7, scoring a superb try to help his side to a come-from-behind 28-12 win over Canberra on Sunday at Hunter Stadium.
Skipper Gidley missed last week's impressive victory over North Queensland with a calf injury and although he returned to face the Raiders, it was at hooker, before being forced out of the game with concussion at halftime.
But seven-time premiership-winning coach Wayne Bennett said Roberts is likely to keep his spot - for now.
"He sold one dummy there and I was waiting to see someone else running and he got to the line before I realised he still had the ball," Bennett said of Roberts' 51st-minute try.
"He does that well, Tyrone, he has that little bit of class.
"It's a great show and go he's got and it works for him. It confuses defenders.
"But no-one is No.1 for anything. He's doing a good job there at the moment and Kurt has got a head knock.
"Kurt only made himself available yesterday, no-one thought he was going to play and I wasn't going to change the team at that late notice."
Trailing 12-10 at the break after squandering a 10-0 lead, Roberts restored the Knights' advantage 11 minutes after the restart, with an outrageous right-foot step that fooled the Raiders defence, then ran through the subsequent gap to score.
It was almost a carbon copy of the his try against the Cowboys last Monday and on this evidence Gidley may have to get used to sharing hooking duties with Danny Buderus this season.
The Knights opened the scoring on the quarter-hour mark through Akuila Uate who hauled in a delicious kick from Jarrod Mullen that curled over the head of Jack Wighton and into the arms of the NSW winger.
Bennett's side continued to press and the advantage was stretched six minutes later when Anthony Quinn scored his first try since returning to the Knights from Melbourne.
The Raiders claimed there was an obstruction against Josh McCrone in the build-up to the try, but the video referee ruled in favour of the home side.
Gidley missed the extras but Quinn's four-pointer woke up the Raiders who scored two unanswered tries to take the lead.
Joel Thompson grabbed the first when he got his fingertips onto a well-judged Sam Williams grubber-kick before Josh Papalii added a second when he ran straight over Gidley to score from 10 metres out, while Jarrod Croker converted both.
But Roberts' try settled Wayne Bennett's side down in the second period and despite close efforts from Blake Ferguson and Thompson, who could only put the ball down on the foot of Uate as he lurched for the line, were good value for their win.
Back-rower Adam Cuthbertson iced the result for the hosts just after the hour-mark when he bulldozed his way to the line and scored his first try since the 2011 semi-final for St George Illawarra against Brisbane.
The former Manly and Cronulla man then added his second just before the siren to seal a third win of the season for his side.
In a further blow for the Raiders, Wighton left the game with an arm injury.
Raiders coach David Furner was seething at his side's insipid second half display and slammed the kicking game of his halves combination Josh McCrone and Sam Williams.
"Our last play options and kicking game were pretty ordinary in the second half," Furner said.
"We didn't give ourselves a chance in the first half, we visited their line four times and didn't even get a repeat set, it makes it hard," Furner said.
The Raiders mentor was also upset about a shoulder charge by Danny Buderus on Blake Ferguson that went unpunished.
The Knights hooker poleaxed the centre, but referee Brett Suttor ruled the incident was merely a collision and allowed play to continue.
"I just saw it again on the video, and I was very surprised," he said.
"There's been a lot of hoo-ha about this recently, and what I saw summed it up.
"Going off what we've been going off it was most certainly a mandatory penalty."
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