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Winners The Wests Tigers couldn't get the win against the Titans but it was through no lack of effort from their five-eighth Adam Doueihi, who registered his best NRL Fantasy score of 103 with a try and two try assists to go with five busts and a stack of run and kick metres. Tom Trbojevic finished with an even 100 as his remarkable run continued on the back of two tries, four try assists and eight busts. Nathan Cleary was back to his high-scoring ways, barely raising a sweat in cranking out 88 for the second-top score of the week. Jason Taumalolo was also back to his best, almost reaching hi...

Eight talking points from NRL Round 9 A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size A team falling out of the premiership race, injuries, controversy, and a few classic games late in the week have headlined Round 9. Here are my NRL talking points for the week that was. What role will Tom Trbojevic play for the Blues? I’ve tried to steer clear of Origin chat in this column, but it’s not all that far away, and Tom Trbojevic’s performance on Sunday is going to make Brad Fittler sit up and take notice.

Dragons hope scrappy win reignites season AAP 2 hrs ago Pamela Whaley © Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS Junior Amone (l) was one of two debutant tryscorers for St George Illawarra against Canterbury. It was an ugly win but St George Illawarra coach Anthony Griffin is hoping Sunday's 32-12 thrashing of Canterbury will reignite his team's NRL season. The Dragons have been languishing over the past month since their stunning win over Parramatta in round five, losing their next three games before Sunday night.  With a clash with Melbourne looming in Brisbane next weekend, Griffin wa...

The Bulldogs finished with Lewis and Allan (head and neck) taken away in ambulance - the latter convulsing after a heavy concussion - with Flanagan’s omission the first sign of Barrett losing patience with one of his own signings. He is desperately trying to rebuild the club before the arrivals of Josh Addo-Carr and Panthers pair Matt Burton and Brent Naden next year. Flanagan and Burton were expected to be the halves who would rejuvenate the Bulldogs, but the immediate future of the former will be under the microscope before Canterbury’s clash against the brittle Raiders next week.

Prop Ava Seumanufagai also suffered a concussion and will be in doubt for next week. Barrett said the poor execution at the end of sets was the reason Flanagan was benched at half-time, but he was later brought back on as a replacement for the injured Lewis. Mark Kolbe/Getty Images It's been a tough season for the Bulldogs, who look likely to pick up the wooden spoon this season. The mounting injury list could force his hand again next week with about 11 regular starters set to be missing in round 10. “From a performance point of view our execution was poor, our discipline was poor and ...