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A sunny Saturday in July at the SCG for the match between the Premiers and competition leaders Eastern Suburbs and the team coming 3rd on the table St George. In front of a crowd of nearly 20,000 the Mighty Eastern Suburbs Roosters tore a hapless St George to pieces.
St George kicked off but they made the dreadful mistake of kicking the ball straight to Mark Harris. As the big centre started his run, the St George defence greeted him with a staggered line. Harris was able to break the first line of defence and with his pace he was able to get around Roy Ferguson and Graeme Langlands to score under the posts. Brass calmly kicked the goal and the score read Easts 5 St George 0 after 1 minute.
As the stunned Saints players headed back to kick off again you could feel a buzz in the crowd. This was going to be a great Rooster day, you could just feel it and the thousands of tricoloured flags waving on the hill was a sight to behold.
Langlands kicked off for the second time but this time the ball went to Ron Coote who selectively passed the ball to a flying Mark Harris. He headed straight for the first line of defence and with a slight swerve the runaway train was through again. He outpaced Tatana and was able to push off Bailey and once again Harris was heading for the tryline. A last ditched attempt by Goodwin was to no avail as Mark Harris went over under the posts for the second time. With Brass's conversion successfull the score read Easts 10 St George 0 after 3 minutes.
The crowd was going berserk as the Easts machine was cutting a swaythe through a hapless St George team. The 3rd kick off came but this time Bill Mullins took it. As Big Bill winded up, the crowd was anticipating another blockbusting run but it wasn't to be as 3 St George forward combined to put the Roosters winger down. But for Saints the damage had been done.
The Roosters played champagne football that day and ended up scoring 9 magical tries in a 41-7 massacre. Saints only try was a penalty try scored by John Bailey and many thought that the ref Laurie Bruyers felt sorry for Saints and gave them one try as a consolation. The score was 41-2 when Bailey had his penalty try awarded.
The look on the stunned faces of the Dragon's fans said it all as we made our way out of the SCG that july day in 1975. The nightmares they must've had about Mark Harris that night would leave Freddy Kruger to shame. Little did the Saints fans know what was in store for them on Grand final day that year. They must've breathed easy when Mark Harris was injured for the big one, little did they know.
R17
Eastern Suburbs def StGeorge 41 (9-7-0) to 7 (1-2-0)
20 July 1975 S.C.G. Ref: L.Bruyeres Crowd: 19803
St George kicked off but they made the dreadful mistake of kicking the ball straight to Mark Harris. As the big centre started his run, the St George defence greeted him with a staggered line. Harris was able to break the first line of defence and with his pace he was able to get around Roy Ferguson and Graeme Langlands to score under the posts. Brass calmly kicked the goal and the score read Easts 5 St George 0 after 1 minute.
As the stunned Saints players headed back to kick off again you could feel a buzz in the crowd. This was going to be a great Rooster day, you could just feel it and the thousands of tricoloured flags waving on the hill was a sight to behold.
Langlands kicked off for the second time but this time the ball went to Ron Coote who selectively passed the ball to a flying Mark Harris. He headed straight for the first line of defence and with a slight swerve the runaway train was through again. He outpaced Tatana and was able to push off Bailey and once again Harris was heading for the tryline. A last ditched attempt by Goodwin was to no avail as Mark Harris went over under the posts for the second time. With Brass's conversion successfull the score read Easts 10 St George 0 after 3 minutes.
The crowd was going berserk as the Easts machine was cutting a swaythe through a hapless St George team. The 3rd kick off came but this time Bill Mullins took it. As Big Bill winded up, the crowd was anticipating another blockbusting run but it wasn't to be as 3 St George forward combined to put the Roosters winger down. But for Saints the damage had been done.
The Roosters played champagne football that day and ended up scoring 9 magical tries in a 41-7 massacre. Saints only try was a penalty try scored by John Bailey and many thought that the ref Laurie Bruyers felt sorry for Saints and gave them one try as a consolation. The score was 41-2 when Bailey had his penalty try awarded.
The look on the stunned faces of the Dragon's fans said it all as we made our way out of the SCG that july day in 1975. The nightmares they must've had about Mark Harris that night would leave Freddy Kruger to shame. Little did the Saints fans know what was in store for them on Grand final day that year. They must've breathed easy when Mark Harris was injured for the big one, little did they know.
R17
Eastern Suburbs def StGeorge 41 (9-7-0) to 7 (1-2-0)
20 July 1975 S.C.G. Ref: L.Bruyeres Crowd: 19803