LIVE: Lodge suffers grimacing injury in Roosters clash

The 2nd fractional kicks disconnected with the Roosters starring the Sea Eagles 18-2 astatine the SCG.

Daniel Tupou snares his 2nd four-pointer of the nighttime with a apical finish!

Billy Smith pops a classy "Gidley flick" and Tupou dives, burshes disconnected a Manly defender and dots down successful the shadows of half-time.

"When you cognize however to people them, you cognize however to people them," Phil Gould says connected the Nine broadcast.

"Just brilliant."

The Roosters instrumentality an 18-2 buffer into the break.

Brad Parker has returned to the paddock aft passing his caput wounded assessment.

His enarthrosis interest mustn't beryllium excessively overmuch of a worry.

Joseph Manu bags the Roosters' 2nd effort of the night!

The Kiwi planetary swoops from dummy-half connected the close borderline and bashes done 2 Manly defenders to score.

"He is an implicit weapon," says Nine's Brad Fittler.

The Roosters person a 12-2 pb successful the 24th minute.

Making matters worse for Manly is wounded concerns for Brad Parker, who departs the tract for a caput wounded appraisal portion besides clutching astatine a shoulder.

Matt Lodge has been ruled retired of the remainder of the lucifer aft leaving the tract with a genu injury, but the club's aesculapian unit is not consenting to disclose the seriousness of the setback.

Lodge is playing conscionable his 3rd NRL crippled for Manly.

Daniel Tupou flies precocious and scores!

The towering Roosters winger plucks a Luke Keary footwear connected the near helping and reaches retired to people the archetypal effort of the match.

Tupou out-jumps Jason Saab and bags his 141st NRL effort aft becoming the Roosters' apical all-time try-scorer past week.

"That's brilliant," says Nine's Phil Gould.

"Lovely contention betwixt the two. Very gangly men, adept successful the air, they're some footwear targets, but this clip the Rooster comes retired connected top."

The Roosters pb 6-2.

Manly hits the scoreboard archetypal arsenic Reuben Garrick knocks implicit a punishment extremity to springiness his broadside a 2-0 pb successful the 10th minute.

Luke Keary went for a abbreviated drop-out and Daniel Tupou had a ft connected the sideline arsenic helium jumped to drawback the ball, resulting successful a punishment for the Sea Eagles.

There's present besides an wounded unreality hanging implicit Matt Lodge, who came retired of a tackle clutching astatine his close knee.

The erstwhile Roosters prop departs the tract successful the eighth minute.

"That's a stroke for Anthony Seibold's men," says Nine caller Mat Thompson.