2010 NRL Under-20s season

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2010 NRL Under-20s season
Teams16
Premiers New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand (1st title)
Minor premiers South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney (1st title)
Matches played201
Points scored10734
Wooden spoon Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta  (1st spoon)
Player of the Year Brisbane colours.svg Tariq Sims
Top point-scorer(s) Canterbury colours.svg Aiden Sezer (281)
Top try-scorer(s) Canberra colours.svg Drury Low (22)
  2009
2011  

The 2010 NRL Under-20s season was the third season of the National Rugby League's Under 20s competition and was known commercially as the 2010 Toyota Cup due to sponsorship by Toyota. Solely for players under 20 years of age, the draw and structure of the competition mirrored that of the 2010 NRL Telstra Premiership season.

Contents

Season summary

Schedule

Ladder

TeamPldWDLBPFPAPDPts
1 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Rabbitohs 2417072687567+12038
2 New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand Warriors (P)2416172731481+25037
3 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 2415272773596+17736
4 North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland Cowboys 2414372673540+13335
5 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters 2414192695588+10733
6 Canberra colours.svg Canberra Raiders 2414192764734+3033
7 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly Warringah Sea Eagles 24130112568583-1530
8 Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Titans 24121112581663-8229
9 Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers 24120122620532+8828
10 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos 24111122690635+5527
11 St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons 24101132568543+2525
12 Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle Knights 2491142612732-12023
13 Melbourne colours.svg Melbourne Storm 2482142683782-9922
14 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 2481152492634-14221
15 Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2020 colours.svg Penrith Panthers 2480162643838-19520
16 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta Eels 2431202454786-33211

Finals series

Qualifying finalsSemifinalsPreliminary finalsFinal
1 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 24
8 Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast 221W South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 64
4W North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland 18 Canberra colours.svg Canberra 18
2 New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand 252L Canberra colours.svg Canberra 22
South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 28
7 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly Warringah 22
New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand 42
3 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury 542W New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand 23
6 Canberra colours.svg Canberra 183W Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury 24 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury 16
1L Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney 22
4 North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland 46
5 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney 12
HomeScoreAwayMatch Information
Date and TimeVenueReferee
Qualifying Finals
Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Titans 22 - 24 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Rabbitohs 10 September 2010, 5:30pm Skilled Park Chris Butler
North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland Cowboys 46 - 12 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters 11 September 2010, 4:15pm Sydney Football Stadium Gavin Reynolds
Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury Bulldogs 54 - 18 Canberra colours.svg Canberra Raiders 11 September 2010, 6:15pm CUA Stadium Adam Devcich
New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand Warriors 25 - 22 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 12 September 2010, 1:45pm WIN Jubilee Oval Gavin Morris
Semi-finals
North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland Cowboys 18 - 22 Canberra colours.svg Canberra Raiders 17 September 2010, 5:15pm Canberra Stadium Gavin Reynolds
Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury Bulldogs 24 - 22 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters 18 September 2010, 5:15pm Sydney Football Stadium Adam Devcich
Preliminary Finals
New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand Warriors 23 - 16 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury Bulldogs 24 September 2010, 5:15pm Suncorp Stadium Gavin Reynolds
South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Rabbitohs 64 - 18 Canberra colours.svg Canberra Raiders 25 September 2010, 5:15pm ANZ Stadium Gavin Morris
Grand Final
South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Rabbitohs 28 - 42 New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand Warriors 3 October 2010, 2:15pm ANZ Stadium Gavin Reynolds

Grand final

South Sydney Rabbitohs Position New Zealand Warriors
Malcolm Webster FB Glen Fisiiahi
James Roberts WG Omar Slaimankhel
Taioalo Vaivai CE Sosaia Feki
Kane Morgan CE Siuatonga Likiliki
Josh Mansour WG Elijah Niko
Matt Mundine FE Carlos Tuimavave
Adam Reynolds HB Shaun Johnson
Josh Starling PR Neccrom Areaiiti
Nathan Peats (c) HK Henry Chan Ting
Francis Laulu PR Mark Ioane
Adrian Haangana SR Elijah Taylor (c)
Joseph So'oalo SR Matthew Robinson
Blake Judd LK Sebastine Ikahihifo
Jake Shearer Bench Nafetalai Seluini
Jacob Nansen Bench Charlie Gubb
Jack Tulemau Bench Sam Lousi
Brendan McKinnon Bench Daniel Palavi
David Kidwell Coach John Ackland

Three second-half tries in 10 minutes helped the Warriors run all over the Rabbits in Sydney.

After holding a slender 12–10 lead at the break, the Warriors turned on the after-burners with halfback Shaun Johnson leading the charge through an impressive kicking and running display.

Though for the first seven minutes after kick off it was a different story, with Souths’ halfback Adam Reynolds getting an early 40/20 and showing his chipping and kicking skills to force the Warriors to line drop out early.

But, despite the early pressure from the Rabbitohs, the Warriors taught them a lesson on how to turn pressure into points and they did so with their first foray into opposition territory.

A Shaun Johnson in-goal grubber was unable to be controlled by South's fullback Malcolm Webster and Elijah Taylor was first on the scene to slap a hand on it. Johnson converted for the Warriors to lead 6–0.

Within seconds, Shaun Johnson was the architect of the Warriors second try, running the ball and offloading with an over-the-top pass for Siuatonga Likiliki to get his 19th try of the season. Johnson converted off the post from wide out for a 12–0 lead.

The Rabbitohs had their chances, held up within the first few minutes of the match and going close but for a knock on in the 20th minute, but struggled to adapt with the big warriors pack able to get 60 metres each set, skillfully followed up by the excellent kicking games of Shaun Johnson and five-eight Carlos Tuimavave.

But the big pack and wide men were caught out in the 27th minute. Souths had a scrum 70 metres out and Reynolds let loose with a kick for his speedsters to chase. Souths 17-year-old flyer James Roberts left all in his dust, nudged it over the line with his foot and fell on the pill. Reynolds converted for 12–6.

The Warriors suddenly looked rattled, kicking out on the full to hand over possession and Souths rubbed salt in a wound when Matt Mundine gave Taioalo Vaivai the space needed to stretch out and score. The conversion missed and the Warriors had a two-point lead, 12–10.

Ten minutes into the second half the Warriors took advantage of a weak Rabbitoh's blindside defence. A Shaun Johnson grubber ended up under the hand of Elijah Taylor for the stand-in captain to score his second try and the kick taking his side out to 18–10.

Two minutes later, Siuatonga Likiliki showed his class to bump off six would-be tacklers, offload to fullback Glen Fisiiahi who stepped inside to score. Johnson kept his perfect record intact and converted again for 24–10.

Then the floodgates opened – if they hadn't already.

Shaun Johnson, the classiest on the park along with Jack Gibson medal winner, Carlos Tuimavave, chipped and regathered then flung the ball out from underneath him to the man-mountain that is Sam Lousi to score. Johnson converted for a 30–10 score line.

Then it was the turn of "The Junior Beast", Elijah Niko, to force his way across the line and Johnson highlighted the total control by once again adding the extras, 36–10.

The Warriors eased, and Rabbitohs' lock Blake Judd and captain Nathan Peats managed to grab two late tries to make the score respectable at 36–22.

But the Warriors were not done, Nafe Seluini accelerating away to slide under the posts. Johnson added his seventh conversion from as many attempts for 42–22.

The match was well over when big Jack Tulemau added a consolation try in the final minutes for Souths. [1]


New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand Warriors 42 (Elijah Taylor 2, Siuatonga Likiliki, Glen Fisiiahi, Sam Lousi, Elijah Niko, Nafetalai Seluini tries; Shaun Johnson 7/7 goals)

South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Rabbitohs 28 (James Roberts, Taioalo Vaivai, Blake Judd, Nathan Peats, Jack Tulemau tries; Adam Reynolds 4/5 goals)

Half-Time: New Zealand 12-10

Jack Gibson Medal: New Zealand colours.svg Carlos Tuimavave

Player statistics

Leading try scorers

Top 10 try scorers
PosNameTriesTeam
1 Drury Low 22 Canberra colours.svg Canberra
2= Glen Fisiiahi 20 New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand
2= Mark Kheirallah 20 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney
2= Siuatonga Likiliki 20 New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand
5 Taioalo Vaivai 19 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney
6= Ryan Tongia 18 Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast
6= Wayne Ulugia 18 North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland
8= Kalifa Fai-Fai Loa 17 St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra
8= Nathan Massey 17 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury
10= Nehe Millner-Skudder 16 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury
10= Hayden Hodge 16 Canberra colours.svg Canberra
10= James Segeyaro 16 North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland
12= Ray Perenara 14 Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast

Most tries in a game

Top 5 most tries in a game
PlayerTeamOpponentRoundTries
1= Dale Copley Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney 44
1= Nathan Gardner Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 34
1= Mark Kheirallah Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Melbourne colours.svg Melbourne 144
1= James Roberts South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Canberra colours.svg Canberra PF4
1= Omar Slaimankhel New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 244
1= Ryan Tongia Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 144
1= Taioalo Vaivai South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury 44

Leading point scorers

Top 10 overall point scorers
PlayerTeamTGFGPts
1 Aiden Sezer Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury 121201289
2 Adam Reynolds South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 13108-268
3 Chris Medcalf Canberra colours.svg Canberra 11107-258
4 Kyle Feldt North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland 1586-232
5 Brad Murray Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney 31023219
6 Josh Jerome Melbourne colours.svg Melbourne 972-180
7 Dane Gagai Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane 1363-178
8 Jordan Rankin Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast 6741173
9 Shaun Johnson New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand 7695171
10 Jake Mullaney Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers 1350-152

Most points in a game

Top 5 most points in a game
PlayerTeamOpponentRoundTriesGoalsPoints
1= Adam Reynolds South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Canberra colours.svg Canberra PF11024
1= Aiden Sezer Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2020 colours.svg Penrith 113624
1= Aiden Sezer Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury Canberra colours.svg Canberra 232824
4= Dane Gagai Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta 232722
4= Beau Henry St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra Melbourne colours.svg Melbourne 42722
4= Jake Mullaney Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers Canberra colours.svg Canberra 43522
4= Jake Mullaney Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2020 colours.svg Penrith 72722
4= Brad Murray Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra 71922

Leading goal scorers

Top 10 goal scorers
PosNameGoalsTeam
1 Aiden Sezer 120 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury
2 Adam Reynolds 108 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney
3 Chris Medcalf 107 Canberra colours.svg Canberra
4 Brad Murray 102 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney
5 Kyle Feldt 86 North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland
6 Jordan Rankin 74 Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast
7 Josh Jerome 72 Melbourne colours.svg Melbourne
8 Shaun Johnson 69 New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand
9 Dane Gagai 63 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane
10 Chad Townsend 55 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla

Most goals in a game

Top 5 most goals in a game
PlayerTeamOpponentRoundGoals
1= Brad Murray Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Melbourne colours.svg Melbourne 1410
1= Adam Reynolds South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Canberra colours.svg Canberra PF10
3 Brad Murray Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra 79
4= Dave Farkas Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2020 colours.svg Penrith Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle 138
4= Jake Mullaney Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta 38
4= Jordan Rankin Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Canberra colours.svg Canberra 138
4= Adam Reynolds South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Melbourne colours.svg Melbourne 168
4= Aiden Sezer Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury Canberra colours.svg Canberra 238
4= Aiden Sezer Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2020 colours.svg Penrith 258

Leading field goal scorers

Top 10 field goal scorers
PosNameTeamField Goals
1 Shaun Johnson New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand 5
2= Matt Mundine South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 3
2= Brad Murray Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney 3
4= Sam Williams Canberra colours.svg Canberra 2
4= Chad Townsend Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla 2

Club statistics

Biggest Wins

Top 10 biggest winning margins
PosWinning TeamLosing TeamRoundScoreMargin
1 Melbourne colours.svg Melbourne Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle 262-1052
2= Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury Canberra colours.svg Canberra 2360-1248
2= Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Melbourne colours.svg Melbourne 1460-1248
4= Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta 2246-046
4= New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2020 colours.svg Penrith 656-1046
4= New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta 2652-646
4= South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Canberra colours.svg Canberra PF64-1846
8 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast 750-644
9= Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland 2450-1040
9= North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast 448-840

Winning Streaks

Winning streak still active
Top 5 longest winning streaks
PosTeamFirst WinRoundLast WinRoundGames Won
1= New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand 28-26 vs Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle 23Current Streak-7
1= South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 16-14 vs Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers 2264-18 vs Canberra colours.svg Canberra PF7
1= Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers 56-24 vs Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta 324-13 vs South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 107
4= Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury 30-26 vs Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 1625-12 vs South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 216
4= Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury 60-18 vs Canberra colours.svg Canberra 2324-22 vs Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney SF6
4= Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast 52-24 vs Canberra colours.svg Canberra 1336-30 vs Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane 196
4= New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand 18-10 vs Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney 1630-14 vs Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast 216

Losing Streaks

Losing streak still active
Top 5 longest losing streaks
PosTeamFirst LossRoundLast LossRoundGames Lost
1 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta 16-32 vs Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 220-34 vs Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle 1512
2 Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2020 colours.svg Penrith 10-38 vs New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand 1840-48 vs Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury 258
3= Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane 28-36 vs South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 1422-36 vs Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney 207
3= Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta 28-30 vs Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury 20Current Streak-7
5= Melbourne colours.svg Melbourne 18-42 vs Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 616-46 vs Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury 126
5= Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2020 colours.svg Penrith 5-38 vs North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland 216-42 vs Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers 76

2010 in rugby league

Awards

Player of the Year

The winner of the award is decided by the most votes during the year as decided by the referee of each game on a 3-2-1 basis for each game played throughout the regular season.

Winner:
Tariq Sims, Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane

Team Of The Year

Voted on by the 16 Toyota Cup coaches, with the players with the highest votes in each position selected.

2010 Team Of The Year
PositionNameTeam
FB Dane Gagai Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane
WG Kalifa Fai-Fai Loa St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra
CT Dylan Farrell South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney
CT Siuatonga Likiliki New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand
WG Josh Mansour South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney
FE Aiden Sezer Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury
HB Sam Williams Canberra colours.svg Canberra
FR Tariq Sims Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane
HK James Segeyaro North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland
FR Andrew Clayton Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane
SR Ryan James Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast
SR Sam Mataora Canberra colours.svg Canberra
LK Ethan Cook Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle
Int Brad Murray Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney
Int Dale Finucane Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury
Int Matt Hyland Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers
Int Lama Tasi Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah
Coach Andrew Patmore Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury

References

  1. "Junior Warriors win Toyota Cup grand final". 3News. Archived from the original on 29 September 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2010.