Jai Arrow 100th game scores, results, teams, time, odds, how to watch

For the most part, the Roosters held their gloves up. Spencer Leniu, eyes spinning like poker machines, did so literally, and, as always, gladly.

But the Rabbitohs, as expected, rolled on. With Jai Arrow leaving the Prime Minister emotional, along with 39,999 others at Allianz Stadium, South Sydney put their old enemy to the sword.

50-20 it went – with some classy, impressive moments along the way, and barely needing to flex their considerable muscle otherwise considering the star power the Roosters had sitting in the stands.

Leniu was one of the few big names Trent Robinson deigned to play given their top-four spot was already locked in before kick-off.

When the Roosters enforcer was smashed by opposite number Keaon Koloamatangi from a kick-off, Robinson may well have regretted it. Leniu went looking for the Souths prop and found him a few moments later.

When they were once again separated by teammates and the referee, Leniu boiled over and tossed the ball away. Rabbitohs players duly congratulated Koloamatangi on baiting his opposite number into error.

Perhaps sensing unnecessary risk a week out from the finals, Wayne Bennett took duly his star front-rower out of the contest. Robinson followed suit, but Leniu made sure he goaded and growled at Souths fans sitting behind the Roosters bench on his way from the field.

This clash will always need plenty of spice after all. With only a few minutes left, Lachlan Hubner and De La Salle Va’a did their part too, getting themselves sin-binned for fighting in the wake of a late Latrell Mitchell try.

Before a ball was even kicked, the Dolphins’ narrow win over the Gold Coast meant the Roosters had to win or they would be locked into fourth place. Whether they head across the ditch to face New Zealand or west to take on Penrith won’t be confirmed until the final whistle of the regular season.

Barring a 35-point loss from fifth-placed Cronulla to Melbourne, the Rabbitohs will now finish sixth and host Newcastle in week one of the finals. Moments from Mitchell and David Fifita again spelled out the impact both men can have in the post-season.

When Fifita took on four defenders from dummy-half in the fifth minute, there was only going to be one winner, and the bullocking back-rower had Souths’ first try.

Tries to Bud Sullivan, Alex Johnston and Campbell Graham ensured the Rabbitohs had plenty of breathing room and a 20-4 half-time lead, before the Roosters found fortune giving the ball air.

Rex Bassingthwaighthe finished off an excellent long-range right-side shift in the 50th minute, before Butcher did the same when the Bunnies were busted up the middle a few tackles later.

But with Cody Walker pulling the strings, the veteran No.6 ensured Souths weren’t ever truly threatened. He helped himself to a try with some light stepping before Adam Elliott, Graham again, Mitchell and Brandon Smith all joined him on the scoreboard.