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Knights winger Dominic Young has opened the scoring for his side, trotting implicit untouched successful the country aft a superb Dane Gagai assist.

Jackson Hastings misses the footwear to marque it a 4-0 lead. 

Dane Gagai has denied Corey Oates implicit the line, managing to support the shot held up earlier the Broncos winger knocked the shot connected successful a terrific try-saver.

The Knights kicked off, and with their archetypal usage of the ball, the Broncos went 100m and came oh-so-close to scoring successful the archetypal set.

From the pursuing play, Patty Carrigan gives distant a punishment and the Knights present person an aboriginal chance.

We're a fewer minutes distant from kickoff astatine Suncorp Stadium, and teams are in!

A fewer insignificant changes. Tyson Smoothy volition travel onto the seat to marque his debut for the Broncos, portion for the Knights, Dylan Lucas volition commencement successful the 2nd row.

Brisbane Broncos

1. Reece Walsh 2. Corey Oates 3. Kotoni Staggs 4. Herbie Farnworth 5. Selwyn Cobbo 6. Ezra Mam 7. Adam Reynolds 8. Thomas Flegler 9. Billy Walters 10. Payne Haas 11. Kurt Capewell 12. Jordan Riki 13. Patrick Carrigan (Interchange) 15. Brendan Piakura 16. Kobe Hetherington 17. Martin Taupau 22. Tyson Smoothy (18th Man) 18. Jesse Arthars

Newcastle Knights

1. Kalyn Ponga 2. Dominic Young 3. Dane Gagai 4. Bradman Best 5. Greg Marzhew 6. Tyson Gamble 7. Jackson Hastings 8. Daniel Saifiti 9. Phoenix Crossland 10. Leo Thompson 11. Tyson Frizell 18. Dylan Lucas 13. Adam Elliott (Interchange) 14. Kurt Mann 15. Jacob Saifiti 16. Jack Hetherington 17. Mathew Croker (18th Man) 19. Jack Johns

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.

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