Crowd seems small, time slot not great for 3 hour drive for fans.
Atikens try very easy draw and pass by Nikoirma after back rower defending at centre turned in off the back of a 7 tackle set restart.
6-0
Holmes loses ball, captains challenge, Murchie hands on ball has it called a strip.
Penalty gets them starting on halfway.
Walsh throws bouncing dangeous ball dead.
Holmes throws ball out, winger a little to in field.
Egan slaps Robson across the nose, lucky not a bin in recent times. Penalty sits Cows in our 30m.
RTS caught in goal off a grubber.
Grubber forces another drop out Walsh taking it dead.
Feldt in the corner, didn't number up right, Chanel and Pompey on the same man.
6-6
Egan with a poor choice to hit a Evans vs going out back on last
Walsh cops a shoulder/upper arm to head, no penalty as falling into tackle. Hmm rules softening??
6 again for Montoya not being let go trying to play it.
End of sets beem poor.
Kick charged down, knocked back, Holmes nearly gets it Katoa there to disrupt it, strip on Montoya gets knocked on by Cows.
Pompey knocks on a flat pass at the line from Walsh.
Drinkwater knocks ball on but kicks it before it hits grown.
Feldt goes up for ball and disrupts Montoya, really goes early but looking at ball he had no chance of getting, comes off Montoya shoulder. Called Warriors ball, challenged and Cows get ball back.
Cows go in the corner, really shouldn't have been there.
10-6
Katoa loses ball in tackle on halfway looking to offload after bending the line.
Backed up with a Jazz idiot late shot after ball passed, replay apparently showing a whiplash of the neck so he got 10 mons in the bin!!!
f**k off Jazz.
Luckly drinkwater loses ball in LAM tackle.
6 more early in tackle count for us.
Nikoirma puts ball down a pass on last, having a look at defensive line.
Grubber from Cows goes dead when being lunged at by them.
2nd offload by Katoa that goes to ground and ends up with Cows after he made it through the line.
Followed by Pompey crusher tackle penalty.
Grubber thru chased as no fullback home and scores for Cows.
16-6
Cows back to back, Katoa not back to second marker, allows marker to run, Walsh missed Drinkwater who runs away to score.
22-6
Hard half to watch with dumb mistakes and penalties with terrible ends to sets. Poor half of football.
Walsh swinging elbow after an elbow in the face shown at halftime might be interesting during the week.
12 years since Cows lose after scoring more than 20 points in first half.
Cows knock on a bomb, Chanel throws offload in tackle as ref doesn't call 6 again, lucky Nikorima holds it.
Cows kick at pass and looks like a knock on, Cows don't challenge.
Walsh off scrum gets centre interested,gets RTS dancing and Aitken over in corner.
22-12
Egan gets set restart as Cows not square at marker.
Cows get restart as to long in tackle.
WOW!!!! Walsh runs 90m for Montoya grubber gather, but faded as Lukie got him at the 15m mark by collar and looked like he taking him into touch, but gets it down in the down.
Nikorima on fire with Conversions tonight.
22-18
Spread on kickoff, I like it.
Walsh down after defusing a bomb takes Clifford down who lands an elbow on his hip.
Chanel thinking of a 20/40?
Bomb comes down, knocked back by Cows for Jazz to knock it on the ground on our 20m.
Pompey stays down after pile of Cows on him, Jazz goes in for a push and shove.
Pompey crushed by Gilbert.
Unde huge pressure there.
Only chew off 20m on kick.
Great kick by Nikoirma that looked to be going out and bends back and RTS nails Holmes in goal!
Walsh throws a near intercept to Bowen who knocks it down.
Montoya scores with a step inside Feldt coming out. Walsh with the final pass!
22-22 Nikorima misses an important one.
18mins to go.
Walsh down holding head, scuffle ensured
Limited force so on report and penalty.
Not taking the 2.
Big Ben scores with a barge over against littler men off dummy half pass.
22-28
13min to go.
Feels like early kick out after points trying to defend the lead.
Arg, Egan gets LAM thru a gap and he throws it away to Brown on ground for Cows to get on halfway.1st mistake of the half. Didn't need it.
Cows lose the ball 10m out.
Chanel kicks out again, with 9mins on clock.
Granville loses ball in Egan tackle and Jazz regathers.
Nikoirma kick to deep caught in goal, 7 tackle for cows.
Nikorima and Tohu had a Liverpool kiss and Nikoirma nose bleeding, my eyes watering.
No way, Cows down the left and everyone falls off tackles, Aitken misses, Walsh slips and Nikorima slips off foot. Felt Harris looking in there.
28-28
3 mins left.
RTS off HIA.
LAM lucky there, not to be penalised.
Take the one off the scrum!
NO we don't! Are we stupid????
Chanel misses it from in front.
Holmes nails if from 40m out, could of gone for 60m.
29-28
RTS knock on the short kickoff.
Game over.
