Dolphins hit man Felise Kaufusi has made shockwaves across the league with one bone-crunching deal with.
Canberra’s Hudson Younger was the most recent sufferer on Saturday after getting in the way in which of the thundering Kaufusi prepare in the course of the Raiders‘conflict with the Dolphins.
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Kaufusi has now made two of the tackles of the yr in as many weeks after cleansing up Brandon Smith final week.
However he took it to a different degree on Saturday, and Younger was the unlucky sufferer who acquired poleaxed.
Simply 12 minutes into the match, Younger was in search of a go whereas working the ball up the left facet on the final deal with when Kaufusi met him with brute pressure.
And in case you did not see it, you might hear it.
“Oh what a shot, he is achieved it once more,” Dan Ginnane mentioned on commentary.
“Felise Kaufusi has made a mark. Oh, he is a sniper. That was an amazing deal with. Proper within the ribs.
“It is a gorgeous factor to look at. That acquired the group revved up.”
Corey Parked mentioned Kaufusi is such a weapon in that state of affairs.
“He can put an actual concern into anybody who needs to take the ball deep into the road,” Parker mentioned.
“It simply places that little little bit of split-second thought into playmakers – they will come and tie up defenders, you are going to put on a shot. And what a shot that was.”
It set the tone for the match because the Dolphins continued their exceptional begin to NRL life with Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow the star because the Redcliffe-based facet defied the circumstances, a controversial sin-bin and a 12-point deficit to beat Canberra 20- 14.
After blitzing the Roosters on a dry Suncorp Stadium monitor of their NRL debut, Wayne Bennett’s males confirmed they may do it on a soaking moist Saturday in Redcliffe.
They prevailed regardless of trailing 12-Zero when hooker Jeremy Marshall-King was sin-binned late within the second half.
Tabuia-Fidow jumped on a unfastened ball to attain earlier than the break although, then the Dolphins gritted their tooth and defended for an enthralling 25 minutes.
Lastly afforded some territory, Tom Gilbert was awarded a strive after jostling with Matthew Timoko to degree the scores with 18 minutes to play.
Tabuia-Fidow then ran neatly from dummy-half and drew an expert foul from Younger.
The backrower was sin-binned for the remainder of the sport and the Dolphins edged forward by two factors.
However Dolphins halfback Sean O’Sullivan quickly joined Younger on the bench when he was penalized for a controversial hit that was deemed late and excessive hit on Corey Harawira-Naera.
But the Dolphins had the ultimate say when teenage five-eighth Isaiya Katoa offloaded to Tabuai-Fidow for his second attempt to ship the soaked 10,000-strong crowd into raptures.
They grew to become simply the third workforce, after Brisbane and Melbourne, to win their first two NRL video games.
Canberra’s Jack Wighton was all over the place within the first 25 minutes, touching the ball 14 occasions and in addition leaping to dislodge Jamayne Isaako from possession as he lunged for the nook.
The Raiders five-eighth had already crossed himself, wandering to the precise edge and surging over to interrupt the Dolphins’ protection after some sustained strain.
That got here after an early turning level when Kaufusi produced the bell-ringing deal with that flattened Younger.
The ball spilled free and Isaako kicked forward and regathered, making it inside 10m of his tryline.
However play was referred to as again for a Kaufusi offside, Wighton’s strive coming three units later.
The Raiders discovered area down the precise 15 minutes later, Nick Cotric’s transformed strive making it 10-0.
Marshall-King was then sin-binned and positioned on report for a hip-drop deal with on Corey Horsburgh.
However the Dolphins scored whereas a person right down to breathe life into the competition, Sebastian Kris fumbling a Sean O’Sullivan grubberkick and permitting Tabuai-Fidow to plant the seeds for his or her unimaginable comeback.
– With AAP
