St. George Illawarra Dragons v South Sydney Rabbitohs Sydney Cricket Ground, Saturday 18 July 2015 Kickoff 7:30pm Referees: Adam Devcich, Chris Sutton Sideline Officials: Brett Suttor, Steve Carrall Video Referees: Jared Maxwell, Luke Patten 1. Josh Dugan 2. Justin Hunt 3. Euan Aitken 4. Peter Mata'utia 5. Jason Nightingale 6. Gareth Widdop 7. Benji Marshall 8. Leeson Ah Mau 9. Mitch Rein 10. Ben Creagh 11. Tyson Frizell 12. Joel Thompson 13. Mike Cooper Interchange: 14. George Rose 15. Will Matthews 16. Jake Marketo 17. Heath L'Estrange 18. Drew Hutchison 19. Charly Runciman 20. Mark Ioane 1. Greg Inglis 2. Alex Johnston 3. Dylan Walker 4. Bryson Goodwin 5. Aaron Gray 6. Luke Keary 7. Adam Reynolds 8. George Burgess 9. Cameron McInnes 10. Tim Grant 11. Glenn Stewart 12. John Sutton 13. Chris McQueen Interchange: 14. David Tyrrell 15. Ben Lowe 16. Chris Grevsmuhl 17. Thomas Burgess
If Merrin was playing I'd probably like the Dragons in this one given they've got most of their side back now after a few lean weeks. If the Bunnies are genuine contenders this year though they should be able to more than compensate for a Dragons forward pack without Merrin.
Thought it was a pretty high quality game, Dragons looked a lot better with their regulars back from injury & Souths pretty slick coming off a bye. Both teams struggled to create points in good ball though, Souths got a bit lucky at the end to pull away with some points off kicks but thought the game was pretty close. If Hunt didn't bomb that try at the start would've been a real interesting game given how hard points were to come by.
