A BRISBANE side missing stars like Reece Walsh, Pat Carrigan, Ben Hunt and Payne Haas led Canterbury 22-0 at halftime on the way to a comfortable win.
Ezra Mam scored a miracle try with his entire body outside the field of play as the premiers scored their second undermanned win in as many weeks.
“All the criticism we got during the week – we were no chance of winning that,” said forward Ben Talty on Triple M.
For Canterbury, Viliame Kikau was forced off in the first half and a couple of late consolation tries made the scoreline somewhat respectable.
The Bulldogs lost Harry Hayes to a tripping sin bin dismissal in the first half, althought Preston Riki also spent 10 minutes in the sheds for the Broncos.
BRISBANE 32 ( Shibasaki Karapani Mariner Paix Mam Willison tries Reynolds 3 goals) beat CANTERBURY 12 (Burton Galvin tries Crichton 2 goals) at Suncorp Stadium. Crowd: 42,775.
Teams:
BRISBANE: Hayze Perham; Josiah Karapani, Kotoni Staggs, Gehemat Shibasaki, Deine Mariner; Ezra Mam, Adam Reynolds (c); Ben Talty, Cory Paix, Jack Gosiewski, Brendan Piakura, Jordan Riki, Xavier Willison. Res: Josh Rogers, Jaiyden Hunt, Preston Riki, Va’a Semu, Antonio Verhoeven, Thomas Duffy.
CANTERBURY: Connor Tracey; Jonathan Sua, Bronson Xerri, Stephen Crichton (c), Marcelo Montoya; Matt Burton, Lachie Galvin; Samuel Hughes, Jake Turpin, Leo Thompson, Viliame Kikau, Jacob Preston, Jaeman Salmon. Res: Bailey Hayward, Kurt Mann, Sitili Tupouniua, Harry Hayes.
Referee: Wyatt Raymond.
