Saturday's New Holland Agriculture Cup home game was one the Dubbo Rhinos were desperate to win but a battle with discipline saw the hosts suffer a gruelling loss to Blayney in a game where as many punches were thrown as tries scored.
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The Rams started the better and overcame a serious injury to Ben Pettit on the way to winning 27-17.
For the winless Rhinos it was a seventh successive loss and it was one of the most disappointing as it was compounded by the sending off of scrumhalf Chris Sellings late on.
"The discipline has to change if this team wants to win games," Rhinos interim coach Darren Taylor said post-game.
"If it doesn't, then there's no wins, it's as simple as that.
"You can't play with fourteen on the field, you've got to have fifteen and everyone's got to be on the same page. It's not good enough."
"When you watch the games this year, sometimes, the other team didn't win them as much as we lost them."
Both sides began in aggressive fashion and applied pressure but there was plenty of nervous energy and errors and penalties dominated the opening stages.
The Rams soon clicked into gear and scored twice, but both tries were unconverted.
After another five minutes of frantic exchanges and the Rhinos' Dale Smith managed a beautiful bit of footwork to give the Rams defenders a runaround and he dived over to make it 10-5.
The Rhinos tried to use the shift in momentum to get more forward pressure going, but quickly became bogged down in the centre of the field, only gaining inches with each pass.
With eighteen minutes to go in the first half, the Rhinos' scrumhalf Chris Sellings clashed with the opposition and the exchange quickly dissolved into flurries of punches as team-mates rush to separate the two.
Sellings stayed on, but received a stern talking to from the referee.
With another five minutes gone, sporadic shoving matches begin to break out as the teams traded possession, with neither outfit managing to make much of the ground they claw back.
With time dwindling in the first half, the Rhinos finally managed to make good use of the space they'd cleared, sending the ball wide and out to the left wing where Samuel Thompson put on a blistering show of speed that nearly caused him to lose his footing, before he managed to dive across the line and equal the score at 10-all.
The equal standing didn't last long, however, as Blayney's John Willis got the ball moving hard and fast after a break opened up in the Rhinos' defensive line for another try that the Rams easily converted.
With just four minutes to go in the first half, the Rhinos pressed the Rams back to the try line, but were unable to cross it despite frequent, urgent clashes.
One of those clashes saw Blayney's Ben Pettit laid low and unable to move from his position on the field.
During the half-time break, an ambulance was called and Pettit was transported to hospital for an undisclosed injury.
The first 20 minutes of the second half played out without much meaningful ground given or gained from either side, before Blayney managed to draw the Rhino's attention down the left flank before getting the ball to Hugh Tate, who broken through on the right side and brought the score to 22-10.
Another successful conversion for Blayney extended the margin to 14.
The Rhinos quickly pressed Blayney back to the try line, looking to close the gap, but an errant arm from a Blayney defender cracked Sellings across the jaw and another brief melee stopped proceedings.
It wasn't all one way traffic in the second half, with the Rhino's Brent Shoard putting on an absolute footwork masterclass in the dying moments of the game in order to crash through the centre of the Rams' defence and bound across the try-line.
The Rhinos' first successful conversion brought the score with striking distance for the beleaguered Dubbo team, but they unable to close it any further before Blayney used a penalty goal opportunity to extend the lead.
Soon after, more violence broke out near the try line and the Rhinos' Sellings was finally given a red card to cheers from the Blayney visiting crowd.
The win was just the second of the season for the Rams, and coach Steve Hamson said it came down to structure.
"That's really all it was, there's wasn't much difference between the teams otherwise," Hamson said.
"It was definitely close at points, that's why we took the penalty goal there at the end to get us ten points up rather than seven."
"The Rhinos had a couple of guys up the back who could really play the game and so they definitely could have scored just fine, so it was concerning at points."