| Illawarra | Manly | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Player | T | G | FG | Pts | Pos | Player | T | G | FG | Pts |
| FB | Brendon Reeves | 1 | 2/3 | 8 | FB | Craig Hancock | |||||
| WG | Fili Seru | WG | Danny Moore | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| CN | Brett Rodwell | CN | Craig Innes | 3 | 12 | ||||||
| CN | Shaun Timmins | 1 | 4 | CN | Terry Hill | 2 | 8 | ||||
| WG | Wayne Clifford | WG | John Hopoate | ||||||||
| FE | Trent Barrett | 1 | 4 | FE | Geoff Toovey | ||||||
| HB | Glen Air | HB | Craig Field | 5/6 | 10 | ||||||
| PR | Craig Smith | PR | Mark Carroll | ||||||||
| HK | Will Robinson | HK | Scott Fulton | ||||||||
| PR | Darren Bradstreet | 3/4 | 6 | PR | Neil Tierney | ||||||
| SR | Adam Bristow | SR | Steve Menzies | ||||||||
| SR | Brad Mackay | 1 | 4 | SR | Jim Serdaris | ||||||
| LK | John Cross | 1 | 4 | LK | Nik Kosef | ||||||
| BE | Scott Cram | 1 | 4 | BE | David Gillespie | ||||||
| BE | Maea David | BE | Cliff Lyons | ||||||||
| BE | David Cox | BE | Billy Weepu | ||||||||
| BE | Andrew Purcell | ||||||||||
| 6 | 5/7 | 34 | 6 | 5/6 | 34 | ||||||
| Scrums: 4-4 Penalties: Manly 6-4 Referee: David Manson Venue: Wollongong Crowd: 9835 Date: 04-May-1997 | |||||||||||