2009 NRL Under-20s season

Schedule

Ladder progression

Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top 8.

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National Youth Competition season 2009 v t e
	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
1	Manly	2	4	6	8	10	12	14	14	14	16	18	20	22	24	25	27	29	31	33	35	37	37	39	39	41	43
2	St. George Illawarra	0	0	2	4	6	8	10	12	14	16	18	18	20	22	24	26	28	28	30	32	32	34	36	38	40	42
3	Melbourne	2	4	4	6	8	10	12	14	16	16	18	20	22	24	24	24	26	28	30	32	32	34	36	38	40	42
4	Wests Tigers	0	2	4	6	6	6	8	8	10	12	12	13	15	17	19	19	21	23	25	27	27	29	31	31	33	35
5	Brisbane	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	4	6	8	10	12	12	14	16	18	20	22	24	26	28	30	32	32	32	34
6	South Sydney	2	4	4	4	4	4	6	8	10	10	10	11	13	13	15	17	17	19	19	21	23	25	27	29	29	31
7	New Zealand	0	0	2	4	4	6	6	6	8	10	10	11	13	15	17	19	19	21	21	23	23	25	27	29	31	31
8	Canberra	2	4	6	8	8	8	8	8	10	12	14	15	17	19	20	22	24	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	28	28
9	North Queensland	2	2	4	4	4	6	6	8	8	8	10	12	12	12	12	14	16	18	18	20	22	22	24	24	26	28
10	Newcastle	0	0	2	2	4	4	4	6	8	8	8	9	11	11	13	13	13	13	15	15	17	19	19	21	21	23
11	Bulldogs	0	2	2	4	6	8	10	12	14	14	14	15	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	19	19	21	21	23	23	23
12	Parramatta	2	2	2	4	4	4	4	4	6	6	8	10	10	10	12	12	14	16	16	16	16	16	16	18	20	20
13	Penrith	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	6	8	10	12	12	12	14	16	16	16	18	18	20	20	20	20	20	20
14	Gold Coast	2	4	6	6	8	10	10	10	10	10	10	12	12	14	16	16	16	16	18	18	18	18	18	20	20	20
15	Sydney	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	4	4	6	6	8	8	8	10	12	12	14	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16
16	Cronulla	2	4	4	4	6	6	6	6	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	10	10	10	12	12	12	12	12	12

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Grand Final

English-born Melbourne young gun Gareth Widdop clinched the Toyota Cup grand final for the Storm with a 74th minute try and pressure conversion, his side downing the Wests Tigers 24-22 on Sunday.

Widdop finger-nailed a late grubber - his second try of the match - to draw his side level at 22-22 before calmly potting the conversion and delivering the second version of the national under-20s competition to Melbourne.

The Storm scored four of their five tries in the first half to lead 18-10 at the break before a burst of two four-pointers in three minutes from the Tigers took them to a 22-18 lead after 56 minutes.

The Tigers had looked to be coming home with a wet sail before Widdop, who missed three first-half conversions, made the difference in a match where the lead changed five times.

The match became a virtual showdown between two gun fullbacks as Wests Tigers tryscoring machine Jake Mullaney took his season tally to 29 tries from 27 games in 2009 with a double of his own.

The speedy Tigers fullback also scored a try on either side of halftime and set up five-eighth Robert Lui's four-pointer for the Tigers' second-half lead.

Melbourne, who finished third in the regular season, had held the ascendancy before that, and led 18-10 at the break with, ironically, Widdop's goal-kicking letting his side down.

The Storm had also been denied three times in the first half, twice with players held up, but scored tries through winger Matt Duffie, lock Billy Rogers, Gareth Widdop and centre Justin O'Neill.^[1]

Melbourne Storm 24 (Gareth Widdop 2, Matt Duffie, Billy Rogers, Justin O'Neill tries; Gareth Widdop 2/5 goals)

Wests Tigers 22 (Jake Mullaney 2, Rhys Curran, Robert Lui tries; Jake Mullaney 3/4 goals)

Half-Time: Melbourne 18-10

Jack Gibson Medal: Luke Kelly

Leading try scorers

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Top 10 try scorers
Pos	Name	Tries	Team
1	Jake Mullaney	29	Wests Tigers
2	Kane Morgan	26	South Sydney
3	Matt Duffie	25	Melbourne
4=	Taioalo Vaivai	20	South Sydney
4=	Joe Vickery	20	St. George Illawarra
6=	Kane Linnett	18	St. George Illawarra
6=	Gareth Widdop	18	Melbourne
8=	Pakisonasi Afu	17	Bulldogs
8=	Daly Cherry-Evans	17	Manly
8=	Obe Geia	17	North Queensland
8=	Beau Henry	17	St. George Illawarra
8=	Shaun Johnson	17	New Zealand

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Leading point scorers

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Top 10 overall point scorers
	Player	Team	T	G	FG	Pts
1	Jake Mullaney	Wests Tigers	29	103	-	322
2	Gareth Widdop	Melbourne	18	111	-	294
3	Beau Henry	St. George Illawarra	17	90	-	248
4	Shaun Johnson	New Zealand	17	84	1	237
5=	Mitchell Porter	Manly	8	76	-	184
5=	Stirling Siejka	Penrith	5	82	-	184
7	Peter Mata'utia	Newcastle	12	64	-	176
8	Michael Picker	Canberra	10	63	-	166
9=	Jordan Rankin	Gold Coast	5	64	-	148
9=	Taioalo Vaivai	South Sydney	20	34	-	148
9=	Troyden Watene	North Queensland	7	60	-	148

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Leading goal scorers

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Top 10 goal scorers
Pos	Name	Goals	Team
1	Gareth Widdop	111	Melbourne
2	Jake Mullaney	103	Wests Tigers
3	Beau Henry	90	St. George Illawarra
4	Shaun Johnson	84	New Zealand
5	Stirling Siejka	82	Penrith
6	Mitchell Porter	76	Manly
7=	Peter Mata'utia	64	Newcastle
7=	Jordan Rankin	64	Gold Coast
9=	Michael Picker	63	Canberra
9=	Troyden Watene	60	North Queensland

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Leading field goal scorers

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Top 10 field goal scorers
Pos	Name	FG's	Team
1	Daly Cherry-Evans	3	Manly
2	Darren Nicholls	2	Wests Tigers
3=	Ben Cronin	1	North Queensland
3=	Rhys Jack	1	Bulldogs
3=	Shaun Johnson	1	New Zealand
3=	Luke Kelly	1	Melbourne
3=	Robert Lui	1	Wests Tigers
3=	Ben Murray	1	Sydney
3=	Shane Pumipi	1	Cronulla
3=	Harry Siejka	1	Penrith
3=	Ray Thompson	1	North Queensland

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Biggest Wins

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Top 10 biggest winning margins
Pos	Winning team	Losing team	Round	Score	Margin
1	Manly	Cronulla	25	64-10	54
2=	Manly	New Zealand	2	52-4	48
2=	Manly	Bulldogs	17	64-16	48
2=	New Zealand	Gold Coast	22	52-4	48
2=	Parramatta	Cronulla	12	52-4	48
2=	St. George Illawarra	Sydney	17	58-10	48
7=	Manly	Sydney	23	56-10	46
7=	North Queensland	Cronulla	17	56-10	46
9	South Sydney	Gold Coast	8	50-6	44
10=	Manly	Sydney	13	42-0	42
10=	Wests Tigers	Bulldogs	26	58-16	42

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Winning Streaks

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Top 5 longest winning streaks
Pos	Team	First win	Round	Last win	Round	Games won
1=	Brisbane	40-16 vs Bulldogs	14	48-24 vs Penrith	23	9
1=	St. George Illawarra	36-12 vs Penrith	3	34-22 vs Cronulla	11	9
3	Melbourne	40-26 vs North Queensland	22	24-22 vs Wests Tigers	GF	8
4=	Manly	40-20 vs Bulldogs	1	26-22 vs North Queensland	7	7
4=	St. George Illawarra	34-22 vs Melbourne	21	48-24 vs New Zealand	QF	7

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• QF = Qualifying Finals
• GF = Grand Final

Losing Streaks

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Top 5 longest losing streaks
Pos	Team	First Loss	Round	Last Loss	Round	Games lost
1	Cronulla	24-16 vs North Queensland	6	44-12 vs Melbourne	20	13
2	Sydney	48-10 vs South Sydney	20	58-26 vs North Queensland	26	7
3=	Bulldogs	40-16 vs Brisbane	14	28-16 vs Gold Coast	19	6
3=	Canberra	28-14 vs Penrith	19	28-24 vs New Zealand	24	6
3=	Gold Coast	22-16 vs Penrith	7	28-6 vs St. George Illawarra	13	6
3=	Penrith	20-16 vs Cronulla	1	34-30 vs Brisbane	6	6

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Toyota Cup 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:

Toyota Cup team Of The Year

The Toyota Cup team of the Year is voted on by the 16 Toyota Cup coaches, with the players with the highest votes in each position selected.

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Position	Player	Club
Fullback	Malcolm Webster	South Sydney
Wing	Joe Vickery	St. George Illawarra
Centre	Taioalo Vaivai	South Sydney
Centre	Siuatonga Likiliki	New Zealand
Wing	Drury Low	Canberra
Five-Eight	Robert Lui	Wests Tigers
Halfback	Beau Henry	St. George Illawarra
Front Row	Trent Merrin	St. George Illawarra
Hooker	Travis Waddell	Canberra
Front Row	Jesse Bromwich	Melbourne
Second Row	Jake Marketo	St. George Illawarra
Second Row	Jared Waerea-Hargreaves	Manly
Lock	Jamie Buhrer	Manly
Bench	Kieran Foran	Manly
Bench	Joel Romelo	Penrith
Bench	Gareth Widdop	Melbourne
Bench	Daly Cherry-Evans	Manly

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