Club Rugby Wrap: Uni & Easts impress, Manly & Warringah fight back
The 2018 finalists have been decided with two rounds remaining but there’s still plenty of play for in the final fortnight of the regular season.
Catch up on all the action from five quality games played over the weekend.
Manly 45-21 Gordon
Four tries from lock Brad Hemopo and a hat trick from centre Josh Turner helped Manly come from behind to beat Gordon at Chatswood Oval.
The Highlanders proved once again that they are capable of playing top quality rugby for periods of a match and jumped out to a 13-0 lead following a try to prop Toby Gukibau and two penalty goals to impressive No.10 Sam Leeming.
Manly responded with back to back tries to Hemopo, but Gordon were well and truly in the fight and pushed further ahead after a try to veteran Matt McDougall.
Unfortunately though, it was one way traffic from that point on.
Hemopo claimed his hat trick just before half time and scored a fourth try on the other side of the break, while Josh Turner showed why he’s ea