2025 R24 Fri - Sydney 32-12 Canterbury @ Allianz

[League Unlimited News]

NRL 2025 - Round 24
Sydney Roosters v Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
Allianz Stadium, Moore Park / Gadigal (TICKETS)

Friday 15 August 2025
NRL kickoff 8pm
Live on Fox, Kayo, Nine, 9Now

1. James Tedesco
2. Daniel Tupou
3. Billy Smith
4. Robert Toia
5. Mark Nawaqanitawase
6. Hugo Savala
7. Sam Walker
8. Naufahu Whyte
9. Connor Watson
10. Lindsay Collins
11. Angus Crichton
12. Egan Butcher
13. Victor Radley

14. Benaiah Ioelu
15. Salesi Foketi
16. Blake Steep
17. Spencer Leniu

18. Ethan King
19. Taylor Losalu
20. Sandon Smith
21. Zach Dockar-Clay
22. Junior Tupou

Ins & Outs
Out: Siua Wong (second row)
In: Blake Steep (bench)
Changes: Spencer Leniu (front row to bench), Benaiah Ioelu (hooker to bench), Naufahu Whyte (lock to front row), Connor Watson (bench to hooker), Victor Radley (bench to lock), Egan Butcher (bench to second row)

1. Jacob Kiraz
2. Jethro Rinakama
3. Bronson Xerri
4. Stephen Crichton
5. Enari Tuala
6. Matt Burton
7. Lachlan Galvin
8. Max King
9. Bailey Hayward
10. Samuel Hughes
11. Viliame Kikau
12. Jacob Preston
13. Jaeman Salmon

14. Kurt Mann
15. Harry Hayes
16. Josh Curran
17. Reed Mahoney

19. Jake Turpin
20. Daniel Suluka-Fifita
21. Connor Tracey
22. Kurtis Morrin
23. Toby Sexton

Ins & Outs
Unchanged

Referee: Grant Atkins
Sideline Officials: Dave Munro, Matt Noyen
Video Referee: Adam Gee

Head to head since 1935

	TOTAL	SYDNEY	CANTERBURY	DRAWN
ALL MATCHES	182	94	83	5
ALLIANZ	0	0	0	0

Last five clashes

Year	Round	Result	Venue	Crowd
2022	Round 8	CANTERBURY 16-12	Accor	9544
2023	Round 14	SYDNEY 25-24	Industree	18338
2024	Round 5	CANTERBURY 30-26	Accor	7169
2024	Round 16	SYDNEY 26-8	Industree	16868
2025	Round 11	CANTERBURY 24-20	Accor	30166

The thumpings

Year	Round	Result	Venue	Crowd
1935	Round 6	SYDNEY 87-7	Sports Ground	-
2010	Round 3	CANTERBURY 60-14	ANZ	19738

State of play: NRL 2025

	POS	PLAYED	BYES	W-L-D	FOR	AGAINST
SYDNEY	9th	20	3	10-10-0	535	463
CANTERBURY	3rd	20	3	15-5-0	474	334

Current form

	Round 21	Result	Round 22	Result	Round 23	Result
SYDNEY	MELBOURNE	L 30-34	MANLY	W 20-4	DOLPHINS	W 64-12
CANTERBURY	MANLY	W 42-4	W TIGERS	L 14-28	WARRIORS	W 32-14

The run home

	Round 25	Round 26	Round 27
SYDNEY	PARRAMATTA (A)	MELBOURNE (A)	SOUTH SYDNEY (H)
CANTERBURY	MELBOURNE (A)	PENRITH (H)	CRONULLA (H)

LOWER GRADES
SYDNEY	CANTERBURY
NSW Cup v North Sydney (MEL), North Sydney Oval, Sunday, 3:00pm Jersey Flegg v Melbourne, Seabrook Reserve, Saturday, 2:00pm	NSW Cup v Canberra, Raiders Belconnen, Saturday, 3:00pm Jersey Flegg v Canberra, Raiders Belconnen, Saturday, 1:00pm

 

[League Unlimited News]

INDIGENOUS JERSEYS

Celebrating Kevin Stevens: The Story Behind the 2025 Indigenous Jersey

The Sydney Roosters’ have continued the tradition of honouring a former player on the annual Indigenous jersey, with their name proudly presented in the unique ‘Boomerang V’ design.

www.roosters.com.au

Our Meeting Place – Bulldogs Launch 2025 Indigenous Jersey

The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are proud to announce the official launch of the 2025 Indigenous Jersey: “Meeting Places” by Kyara Fernando, a proud Dunghutti artist from Kempsey, NSW.

www.bulldogs.com.au

 

[Valheru]

Should be a cracker! Hopefully the SFS is pumping with 35k plus.

It's not must win for the roosters but if they do win they become odds on to make the finals with games against Parra and Souths to come.

 

[0neye]

PUT YOUR EASTERN SUBURBS MANSION ON MOFOS

 

[Bobby DIGital]

Roosters by 10

 

[Black Panther]

Should be a cracker! Hopefully the SFS is pumping with 35k plus.

It's not must win for the roosters but if they do win they become odds on to make the finals with games against Parra and Souths to come.

That would mean 34k Bulldogs fans, the Roosters fans are invisible.

 

[Vic Mackey]

I said last week I low key thought Easts could win the comp. Despite being arguably weaker on paper then the last few years theyve adjusted their game (finally) and throw a bit more at teams. This has led to a few losses against shit teams like Souths and Tits but then a win against Penrith and near misses to Dogs/Storm.

I didnt take a lot from the Dogs win last week. Wahs are in freefall, missing key players and will likley just hold onto 8th.

Easts have too much firepower, Angus will run riot over Galvin and should get this done by 12.

 

[soc123_au]

Someone's bubble is getting burst here. If the good Roosters turn up then I think they trouble the Dogs.

 

[Valheru]

That would mean 34k Bulldogs fans, the Roosters fans are invisible.

Comments like these are so far outdated it isn't even effective trolling anymore.

Our attendance culture is beyond question.

 

[Valheru]

I said last week I low key thought Easts could win the comp. Despite being arguably weaker on paper then the last few years theyve adjusted their game (finally) and throw a bit more at teams. This has led to a few losses against shit teams like Souths and Tits but then a win against Penrith and near misses to Dogs/Storm.

I didnt take a lot from the Dogs win last week. Wahs are in freefall, missing key players and will likley just hold onto 8th.

Easts have too much firepower, Angus will run riot over Galvin and should get this done by 12.

Don't think we are any realistic chance of winning the comp. A finals appearance would be a great result. The most pleasing aspect of the season is the improvement of the team, especially the young guys including 8 debutants. You mention losses against souths and titans, we also lost to warriors in that run and IMO there is no way any of those 3 teams gets within 20 of us 4 months later.

In the middle of the season we lost to the top 3 teams by a total of 12 points. We will see this week if we have improved enough to beat them.

Agree with what you say re: dogs form. We cant look at wins against the warriors as any indicator at this point. The last team that felt good about themselves after beating the warriors just had 60 put on them. Bulldogs are way better than the dolphins though and this Friday will say a lot about both teams.

 

[Chins]

Dogs aren't going great but Easts really struggle to break down decent defence.

Dogs by Burto 80m field goal

 

[gerg]

I said last week I low key thought Easts could win the comp. Despite being arguably weaker on paper then the last few years theyve adjusted their game (finally) and throw a bit more at teams. This has led to a few losses against shit teams like Souths and Tits but then a win against Penrith and near misses to Dogs/Storm.

I didnt take a lot from the Dogs win last week. Wahs are in freefall, missing key players and will likley just hold onto 8th.

Easts have too much firepower, Angus will run riot over Galvin and should get this done by 12.

Roosters have been 50'd this year. No way they break that hoodoo.

 

[This Year?]

PUT YOUR EASTERN SUBURBS MANSION ON MOFOS
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I love these pics. Keep them going please.

 

[ouwet]

Comments like these are so far outdated it isn't even effective trolling anymore.

Our attendance culture is beyond question.

100%

Roosters are one of the best supported teams in Sydney at home and surprisingly away also!

For me the real myth teams are South Sydney & St George!

 

[ouwet]

Easts have too much firepower, Angus will run riot over Galvin and should get this done by 12.

Another Tiger's supporter who just can't help but mention Galvin!
He broke up with you guys 2 months ago... Move on!

 

[This Year?]

I tipped Canterbury. Roosters will have heavy legs after shooting all over the Dolphins.

 

[Fangs]

Dogs will win this one comfortably. 14 the margin.

 

[Warrimoo3]

Really looking forward to this one. Last time these teams met Ciraldo totally outcoached Robinson. The Roosters went through a phase of totally ignoring the 2nd biggest aerial threat in the comp in Toupou for about 4 weeks for some reason and this match was in that period. There were 2 or 3 times in that match where they were in a perfect position to bomb but ignored it. This time they have 2 bombadiers in Walker and Savala and apart from Toupou , 2 secondary targets in Marky Mark and Billy Smith.

Walker’s short kicking game is the key to this match in my opinion. He won the game for the Roosters against the Bulldogs in the wet at Gosford last year via it. When it’s on song it’s impossible to defend it .

The Bulldogs’ defence looked great last week but if the truth be told the Warriors’ threw nothing at it. Still you can only defend what’s in front of you and the Warriors only scored via a kick and an intercept. It’s virtually impossible to go through the Bulldogs’ brick wall and also very hard to get around it. They adjust very well to a quick shift and cover extremely well on the odd occasion they get outflanked.


The best way to attack the Bulldogs is to cut back towards the posts from 1,2 or 3 passes wide of the ruck with mobile players with good footwork . This minimises the number of defenders in the tackle and results in a quicker ptb .And lets’s face it winning games is all about quick ptbs in the right part of the field.

The Roosters are almost as inconsistent as Manly. And sometimes their forwards, for whatever reasons, just don’t turn up. And they are more than capable of putting on an error riddled performance when you don’t expect it . The win against the Dolphins would have been good for their confidence but is not the ideal preparation for a grinding finals type match which is on the cards here.

Bulldogs by 10

 

[horrie hastings]

Heat lamps used to try and dry the Allianz surface before the big weekend of football there

‘Not crash hot’: Concern over stadium surface

Venues NSW insists Allianz Stadium's troubled surface will cope with five games in three days despite players slamming the $828m venue's "not crash hot" conditions.

au.news.yahoo.com

 

[Vic Mackey]

Another Tiger's supporter who just can't help but mention Galvin!
He broke up with you guys 2 months ago... Move on!

Ive said on many occassions Galvin will be great longterm for the dogs. I think the point Ive said has plenty of merit, we saw Cleary pick him out the second he came onto the field in their game. Luai and Samuela Fainu did with great effect fornight ago. Its not exactly shocking that a 20 year old half struggles to defend, you dont think the Dogs wont be looking to get Preston one on one with Walker?