Sydney Roosters and Canterbury go head-to-head in a tantalising Round 2 showdown on Thursday night, with another chapter of one of the NRL’s bitterest rivalries set to be written.
Animosity ramped up between the clubs in 2002 when the Bulldogs, runaway ladder-leaders and title favourites, were stripped of all of their competition points just a month out from the finals for flagrant salary cap breaches. The Ricky Stuart-coached Roosters subsequently embarked on a nine-match winning streak that carried the club all the way to grand final glory, claiming a premiership the Bulldogs believed was rightfully theirs.
Throwback Thursday relives the grudge match of 2003, which lived up to its billing as the competition front-runners produced a high-scoring thriller in Round 9. With the scores locked 26-all and just over a minute remaining, Bulldogs halfback Brent Sherwin gambled on a long pass to Matt Utai instead of setting for a field goal, and the nuggetty winger beat four defenders on a sensational run to the corner for the match-winning try.
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