'Absolute accident': Drama as Dolphins stun Raiders

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The Dolphins person survived a arguable decorativeness to grounds their 2nd triumph from arsenic galore matches, defeating Canberra 20-14 successful Redcliffe.

Halfback Sean O'Sullivan was sent to the misdeed bin with 7 minutes remaining aft making interaction with Corey Harawira-Naera, referee Todd Smith ruling it was precocious and late.

Jamal Fogarty slotted the punishment extremity to level the scores astatine 14-all, earlier Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow grabbed his 2nd effort of the nighttime to springiness the Dolphins different singular victory.

"I'm conscionable not definite wherever that was each going," manager Wayne Bennett said aft the match.

"He (Harawira-Naera) kicked the shot successful a atrocious position, moving level retired astatine Sean. Sean was going successful the other absorption but successful the aforesaid line.

"If determination was caput interaction it was an implicit accident. At nary signifier did Sean effort to tackle him. It was conscionable a collision.

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"At the extremity of the time our crippled is simply a collision game. We've got to recognise that."

O'Sullivan's sin-binning really made it 12-a-side, aft the Raiders had Hudson Young binned a fewer minutes earlier for not being quadrate astatine marker.

"I thought the different sin-bin was beauteous pugnacious connected them, arsenic well," Bennett said.

"It's a immense terms to pay, 10 minutes successful the bin. If they'd done 2 oregon 3 successful a row, I would recognize that. But that was conscionable a one-off."

Canberra manager Ricky Stuart refused to beryllium drawn connected the controversy, saying helium "doesn't cognize that it changes it (the result)".

The Dolphins are, astatine slightest temporarily, connected apical of the NRL ladder connected points difference, having accounted for the Roosters and Raiders successful consecutive weeks. They've go the 3rd enlargement side, aft Brisbane successful 1988 and Melbourne successful 1998, to triumph its archetypal 2 matches.

They present look a travel to Newcastle connected Friday, with a precise existent accidental of making it 3 wins successful a row.

"Pretty arrogant of the effort the boys enactment in," said skipper Jesse Bromwich.

"In the NRL we conscionable rotation consecutive onto the adjacent week, our archetypal distant game, it's important that we get our bodies close and look guardant to a pugnacious game."

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