On a game day dedicated to Sattler following the South Sydney legend's death at the age of 80 on Monday<\/a>, Ilias delivered the Rabbitohs a 13-12 golden point triumph at Stadium Australia.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Rugby Australia lands Roosters prodigy Suaalii<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Hurricanes make amends for last year's shock loss<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \ufeff<\/strong><\/p>\n EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> 'Misguided' response to transgender ban torched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Megastar teammate Latrell Mitchell had failed to nail a field goal attempt in the final minute of regular time, as had Manly maestro Daly Cherry-Evans, but Ilias\ufeff pinged the ball over the black dot to spark glorious celebrations.<\/p>\n A swarm of the famous "torn rabbit" jerseys with a white collar, and cardinal red and myrtle green hoops, swamped Ilias in an instantly iconic moment in Rabbitohs history.<\/p>\n The Rabbitohs looked resplendent in the vintage jersey, which Sattler had worn during the 1970 grand final synonymous with him playing 77 minutes with a broken jaw.\ufeff That game saw Sattler captain South Sydney to his third of four titles as Rabbitohs skipper.<\/p>\n Stream the NRL premiership 2023 live and free on<\/strong> 9Now<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A minute's silence was observed before kick-off on Saturday night, as a visibly emotional Scott Sattler, John's son, joined a circle of Rabbitohs players in a beautiful moment.<\/p>\n The night of tributes rolled on when the Rabbitohs' official supporter group, "The Burrow", led a round of applause in the 13th minute, acknowledging the jersey number worn by Sattler in his four premiership victories as South Sydney captain.\ufeff<\/p>\n "I was just saying to (captain) Cam (Murray) out on the field, \ufefflooking up at the scoreboard at 13 points … obviously John's number … To have his family here today is pretty special," said South Sydney coach Jason Demetriou.<\/p>\n "Got to know 'Satts' a fair bit over the last few years. Great family. So for us to be able to pay tribute (was great).<\/p>\n "I want to pay respect to our whole club: (chief executive) Blake (Solly), the commercial team, the media team. The tribute, the whole week has been fantastic.<\/p>\n "We didn't talk about it a great deal as a team because we could see it. It was there, it was evident throughout the club.<\/p>\n "I just felt at times tonight we didn't deserve to lose that game, and I'm really thankful we got the two points."<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" L\ufeffachlan Ilias put the finishing touches on a stirring night of tributes to John Sattler. Lurking \ufeffbehind the 20-metre line after 81 minutes of pulsating […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280883,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280881\/revisions\/280883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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