Until last weekend, Jocelyn Kelleher had never kicked a field goal in the NRLW.

In fact, despite many attempts on the practice pitch, the Roosters’ playmaker had hardly managed to nail one at training either.

But with a spot in the grand final on the line, Kelleher – who shifted from five-eighth to halfback two weeks ago after Tarryn Aiken suffered a season-ending ACL injury – slotted the match-winning field goal against the Sharks to send the Roosters into another decider.

“This whole season it’s usually up to Tarryn, I was kind of just the back-up, so I hadn’t been doing too much,” Kelleher said.

“We had done a lot of scenarios at training where I’d actually missed that. So, I think when I kicked that, Keeley [Davis] looked at me and said, ‘are you ready’, and I was just like, ‘yep,

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