The 2011
New South Wales Cup was the 104th season of
New South Wales's top-level statewide
rugby league competition. The competition was contested by eleven teams over a 30-week season (including Finals), which concluded with the 2011 Grand Final at
ANZ Stadium in
Sydney
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...
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Ladder
Source:
Finals series
Grand final
A try on the siren by Jonathan Wright secured the
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs their third straight
NSW Cup title, triumphing 30–28 over the
Auckland Vulcans
The Auckland Vulcans were an Auckland based rugby league club that participated in the New South Wales Cup. They were administered by the Rugby League Development Foundation. The team was selected from the Auckland Rugby League's Fox Memorial C ...
in the Grand Final at
ANZ Stadium. The Bulldogs led by 8 points twice in the second half only to surrender both leads, with a Vulcans try in the 75th minute to Ivan Penehe seeing them take the lead 28–26. With their backs to the wall the Bulldogs secured a turnover 25 metres from the Vulcans line with 60 seconds on the clock, and sending the ball from side to side
Josh Reynolds passed the ball to Wright, who evaded the defence to score the match winner as the siren sounded.
See also
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2011 NRL season
The 2011 NRL season was the 104th season of professional rugby league football club competition in Australia, and the fourteenth and last run by the National Rugby League's partnership committee of the Australian Rugby League and News Ltd. The NRL ...
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2011 Queensland Cup
References
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