10th minute The ball is kicked to Fung who runs straight at SKD and tramples over him and continues, he then breaks another tackle before being held on the 40m line. Great Run! Downpipes scoots from dummyhalf and makes a solid 10m burst, Jacobs scoots and the siren sounds as he gets pulled down. Halftime Bears 24 - Roosters 0 Tries to Simon Laing Aaron Hunt Brett Gemmell Mate Perry 72% possession for the Bears in that half.
11th min The Bears play a solid set out with runs from Read, Gemmell and Cambridge. Perry kicks on the 4th from his 40m, it's over the 20, another 40/20? It runs parallel to the sideline all the way to the tryline but it won't cross the line!
11th min Myles takes a hitup but is met by O'Neill who shoves him back to where he started. Aubs scoots, Myles takes another hit up and is whacked again this time by Gemmell, the ball gets played to Perrett who passes to Aubusson who clears the ball up the other end of the field.
12th min Hughes cleans up the kick, links smartly with his winger in James, who makes a run before offloading to Gemmell who spills the ball when in the clear. Scrum to the Roosters
12th min Pearce feeds the scrum as the forwards collide together and he picks it up from the scrumbase and cuts out to Perrett, who charges at his direct opponent in Cambridge, who gets bumped off and Perrett continues, across comes Hughes who attempts to bring down the rampaging winger! He falls off a crucial tackle and Perrett draws the defence of Hunt before passing infield to a charging Willie Mason who crosses adjacent to the sticks. Roosters Try! Fitzgibbon takes his time, lines up his conversion with care and calmly adds the extras to make this game more interesting. Bears 24 - Roosters 6
13th min Read rallies the troops in goal for a big defensive effort in the next set and they travel to the halfway line where Perry restarts play kicking to Sa who throws a huge cutout pass to Pearce who runs and is held up by Jacobs, Pearce manages to offload the ball though and it takes the chasing defence of Ikram to bring down Anasta. Aubusson spins it out wide to Soliola who is crunched by Burridge with an aggressive tackle and the ball spills out which Morgz picks up but he's cleaned up by Kenny Dowall and knocks on. What is the ref going to rule? Bears ball, first knock on against the Roosters
Interchanges are made yet again here. Read, Gemmell and Hughes make their exit from the game for now. On comes Rogers, Pilgrim and Heef. James moves to fullback. Cambridge moves to the 2nd row O'Neill shifts to lock Rogers and Heef are the two wingers now.
13th Min Perry runs himself from the scrum win, Jacobs passes to Fung who takes a run direct at the defence and he's forced back strongly. Jacobs scoots to the middle of the field and is only just brought down by Pearce. Fung takes over at dummy half and he finds Ikram who takes a simple hitup, tries a miracle around the corner offload and it doesn't quite succeed, the ball travels forward and its a Roosters ball.