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NRL NT Round 2 Recap with Costo · WCBH

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  Yeah, thanks, Costo. And a big Friday night of rugby league here in the top end.
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  Now, we usually play on a Saturday evening, but due to Anzac Day falling on
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  the Saturday, games were moved to the Friday.
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  This was round two in the Dabscope Premiership, which is our premier men's grade,
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  and it's a 16 competition.
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  South Darwin Rabbitohs v. the Northern Sharks. Now, these are two teams that
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  missed the finals last season, and both teams are last start winners.
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  And the Sharks got the jump leading 16-4 at the break.
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  The Sharkies went on with it in the second half. The final score,
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  Northern Sharks 36, the South Darwin Rabbitohs 4.
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  Now, the Sharkies, they're 2-0 to start the season.
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  Despite the loss, things are looking up for South Darwin.
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  They have struggled in recent seasons, but they've formed a strong partnership
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  with Gove United, which sees a handful of some pretty talented rugby league
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  players flying in from Gove or Nulamboy, one of our more remote regions of the Northern Territory.
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  In the Darwin Brothers v Nightcliffe Dragons clash, now brothers,
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  they are our two-time defending premiers.
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  Brothers built on last week's win over the Bears, but they didn't have it all their own way.
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  Dragons, they came home strong. In the end, the Dragons were gallant in defeat.
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  The final score, Brothers 24, the Dragons 12.
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  Whilst out at Weber Park, which is the home ground of the Litchfield Bears,
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  which is our big rural regional team, the Bears hosted the Palmerston Raiders,
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  and it's fair to say there is a fair rivalry between these two clubs.
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  The Raiders, they established a 12-6 lead at the breakthrough.
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  Field position and ball possession. Poor discipline from both teams impacted the second half.
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  It certainly could have been described as a very heated game.
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  The Bears snuck home in the end to secure a 14-12 victory.
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  That pleased their home crowd. Now on the Bears, they were last season's minor
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  premiers. They went down in the grand final to brothers.
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  They lost their halves partnership of Wilmington and Wedding at the end of last
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  season, with both players leaving Darwin.
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  But the Bears' new spine of Pomeroy at fullback, young Harry Heath at 5'8",
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  Jacobson at halfback and the captain Drayton at hookup, that combination is
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  developing nicely for the Bears.
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  So after round two, the Northern Sharks and Darwin Brothers,
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  they're both undefeated on four points.
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  The Litchfield Bears and the
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  South Darwin Rabbitohs with one win and one loss, they're on two points.
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  And the Nightcliffe Dragons and the Palmerston Raiders both yet
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  to record a win for 2026 so six
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  teams in the competition it is a final four now
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  over in the true flow services premiership that's our
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  six team women's competition and i have to say the women's game is really going
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  from strength to strength here in the top end recently shari togo she is the
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  coach of the litchfield bears she was part of jess skinner's australian indigenous
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  all-stars coaching team when they took on the Māori All-Stars recently in Waikato.
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  So at Weber Park, Shari Togo's team, the Litchfield Bears, they bounced back
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  from last weekend's loss, establishing a fortress, and they shut down the Raiders'
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  attack to record an impressive.
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  22-12 victory, brothers came up against the resurgent dragons.
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  They definitely put them to the sword.
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  Brothers, the four-time defending premiers, clinical in their 52-12 win.
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  So brothers, or the sisters as they are affectionately known,
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  they're a bit like the Penrith Panthers, winning four premierships on the trot.
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  They are definitely still the team to beat.
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  And the Sharks v Rabideaus clash, the Rabideaus stuck with the Sharks for much of the first half.
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  The Sharks, they broke free in the second half to run out 32
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  16 winners so plenty of positives for both
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  teams to come out of the game now we enter the
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  bye round so no senior rugby league this coming weekend
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  in darwin round three will take place saturday 9th of may and we'll see the
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  palmerston raiders v the nightcliff dragons now in the dabsco premiership these
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  are two teams yet to record a victory for 2026 and both of these teams will
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  expect to play finals footing so expect a big clash here south darwin Rabbitohs,
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  they will come up against the Darwin Brothers.
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  Now, this is last season's Premier's Brothers up against last season's Wooden Spooners South.
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  But given the Gove United partnership with South that I spoke of earlier,
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  and I spoke with a senior player from Gove United during the week,
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  they are expecting a full complement of players to fly in this week.
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  So this game could be much closer than we think.
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  And the Litchfield Bears, they will take on the Northern Sharks,
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  the Bears with their new young spine and probably the fittest team in the competition.
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  They will come up against the Sharks who have really surprised and impressed early in the season.
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  Coach Colley really has them firing on all cylinders. So it should be a great
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  round of Rugby League and Costo.
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  I look forward to giving you a full wrap up next time we speak.