Blues and gold dominate top of the table clash

The blue and golds dominated the top of the table clash with Leeton, converting a 29-13 halftime lead into a 49-22 victory.

The win gives the Steamers a handy buffer at the top of the table with three rounds to finals and the week off for the minor premier.

Coach Mick Raynes said he hasn’t seen a winger have so much influence on a game. 

“His running just created a momentum that the whole team bought into,” he said.

“A lot of the work is done inside but Sam took his own game to another level on Saturday.

”At one stage Richie Manion put up a bomb, there were two Leeton guys converging from both directions and they just hesitated for a fraction of a second and Sam hit the afterburners, took the ball out of the air and then beat two others to score – it was freakishly good.”

Raynes said it was a clinical first half performance.

“We dominated the first half and that came after spending sometime talking about our slow starts but like the Tumut game we played to our game plan, kept them out of the red zone and executed our plays better than the previous week,” he said.

“But it was the likes of Jean-Laurent Pozzobon, who must have racked up 30 tackles, Dan Cottrell in the line-out and Lex Botha out wide who really stood out with Allen.  

“The second half was a little scrappy but we now control our own destiny for the minor premiership.”