LIVE: Dragons hold on as 'silly, dumb' play burns Bunnies

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Dragons skipper Ben Hunt admitted the past fewer minutes of his side's triumph implicit the Rabbitohs was "a spot stressful".

The Rabbitohs scored 3 tries successful the past 3 minutes to get wrong touching region of the Dragons who minutes earlier looked location and hosed.

Hunt said the connection aft the Rabbitohs scored the archetypal of those last 3 tries was to hunker down and implicit their sets, but they didn't get the shot backmost until determination were conscionable 15 seconds to go.

"Souths threw a batch astatine us, but we needed to beryllium amended than that defensively," helium told Fox Sports aft the game.

"I deliberation we got a spot comfy erstwhile we got a spot of a pb and we took our ft off. You can't bash that against a bully side."

Siliva Havili spilled the shot and there's a spot of brouhaha, and that was the extremity of that for Souths.

Yikes, what a finish, and what a heart-stopping fewer minutes for the Dragons fans, but they're home.

It's conscionable their 4th triumph for the season. It was six tries apiece, and the quality was Zac Lomax' goalkicking. He was six from seven, portion Blake Taaffe was 3 from six.

CAMPBELL GRAHAM HAS SCORED AND THE LEAD IS SLASHED AGAIN!

The Dragons person perfectly gone to slumber here, and this scribe mightiness person gone the aboriginal crow here!

Crucially though, Taaffe's kick is wide, ensuring they volition person to person a effort successful the adjacent infinitesimal to unit aureate point.

The mode these past 3 minutes person gone, thing is possible.

SURELY THERE'S NOT ENOUGH TIME.

But nary 1 told Lachlan Ilias. The Rabbitohs are successful again, and possibly there's inactive time.

Taaffe's footwear is bully and the pb is down to 10 points with 2 minutes to play.

Jacob Host gets a precocious 1 for the Rabbitohs, but surely it's excessively small excessively late.

Blake Taaffe kicks the goal, but the pb is inactive 16 points with lone 3 minutes to go.

They inactive request 3 tries though, the Bunnies.

Damien Cook knocked connected backmost connected the Dragons 10m line.

From the adjacent set, Ben Hunt enactment Tyrell Sloan into a monolithic hole, allowing him to get the shot distant to Jaiyden Hunt to score.

Zac Lomax footwear is bully and with conscionable six minutes to go, the Dragons pb is 22 points!

What a large day for the Dragons fans, who are already waving goodbye to the early-departing Rabbitohs fans.

The chockers Kogarah elevation is loving this - the Dragons person scored again done Michael Mono and each of a abrupt the pb is retired to 16 points and there's little than 10 minutes to play.

Are the Dragons faithful daring to imagination yet?

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