Wow we get a penalty the first set.
Ref indicated a eye rake??
Inside the 10m.
Lino took the line, inside man Mannering held back. Professional fowl, but no no no as not scoring a try.
Take the 2 points in the wet.
2-0
Luke stripped of ball on last tackle.
Fisher-Harris dumb move.
Passi pulls a swift from dummy half after RCG allowed to lay in ruck to long.
No markers, good read by Passi and sold a great dummy.
8-0
Did Luke have ball helped out by Panthers and regather but no restart of tackle count.
Just over 8minutes and Panthers get the ball.
Panthers stripped and got a penalty, replay shows loose carry.
Cleary gets a repeat set.
Short dropout works again, Cleary knocks on a loose ball. Putting bodies around the ball is the key to those.
Blair puts ball over line after a messy play.
Bomb dropped then Kata pushes Cleary acting as a blocker.
Somehow it's a Panthers penalty. First infringement ball dropped. Anyway.
Lino knocks down a kick inside the 20m and Panthers get another set.
SJ stops Kikau, but we are offside so penalised.
Panthers holding Passi in tackle and Warriors penalised for it.
4 sets in a row and keep them out.
Blake knocks on a kick through.
SJ running the ball and earned a penalty.
Late offload from Gavet set it up.
Blair threw a stupid pass to no one.
Trying to be fancy.
Panthers get the loose ball in the ground.
RTS returns and is crunched, loses ball but Panthers offside. If it was a strip call it was wrong.
Great hands for Fus to score in the corner.
Refs to be stood down next week in the call to check Fus.
Lino to Mannering who drew 2 players and they had to follow in, leaving Fus unmarked.
12-0
No dummy half for a play of the ball, Lucky Panthers dont fall on it.
SJ makes a break, gets ball to Fus who runs, puts in the kick. That Cleary cleans up
But Peachy pull SJ shirt who hits ground in the chase. Should be a professional fowl. It's not about a penalty try, SJ denied chance to be there.
Let's start doing it to every support player during a break. Wake up refs.
Mannering involved again, offloads to Lino who is missed by a high tackling RCG and Lino goes hard for the line and scores next to post.
18-0
50mins till Panthers start to play.
Live points diff +19
Penalised as we tangled up in tackle, Panthers on the 25m.
Whare shown holding a wrist in the sheds.
SJ pass to RTS went over his shoulder, Ken cleaned it up. Normally called a knock on.
Losing the arm wrestle a little here.
Struggling to get out of the 40m.
Mansour scores a messy try, Kick through bounces off Hiku, off Mansour which goes between Fus legs and ball bounces perfectly for him.
18-4
Live Points Diff +15
Maumalo loses ball in tackle, must of been helped out on way down. Cleary makes a break and no one tackles him till Kata hits him.
Last play kick by them with seconds to go was weird but grateful.
Need 21 points from here and no Panthers tries to go in front of them (35 point win)
Not sure we get that.
First half points came from Panthers penalties which dried up.
Lino bomb knocked on by Panthers as RTS over shot it, ball goes to ground, Blair makes and effort blocking Panthers getting ball but Lino scopes it up (great hands) to SJ to Harris who turns Mansour inside out to Hiku with quick hands out to Fus who scores in the corner and has 20 tries for the season.
3rd Warriors to do so joining Meli and Manu.
24-4
Live points diff +21 (14 more points needed)
Lino offside chasing the bomb, in front of SJ.
Penalised. Dumb stuff, letting Panthers off the hook.
Tamou runs through a gap created by his two lead runners obstruction tacklers.
Luke knocks on a Bunty offload on 2nd tackle.
Cleary earns a goal line dropout with a grubber that RTS has to knock dead.
Short dropout doesn't go 10m, penalty in front of goal.
Penalised for going early off our line.
All over Kikau near line and penalised. Look like he bobbled the ball in tackle.
Cleary chip through bounces into RTS who cleans it up.
Lino 40/25 kick to give us a rest.
Jazz trip Peachy???
Defense looking scrappy.
But doing its job luckily, bomb to middle of field DWZ loses ball trying to score.
We cant buy a penalty this set.
To long on RTS.
Non square marker pushes Luke in back retreating.
Fus scores a hat trick.
f**k me they have to check it, sack all sideline officials.
SJ makes a break running at the line, slices between Tamou and Blake, who had eyes for Harris only. Tried to go to line but had to dump it inside as DWZ got him for Fus.
28-4
Live points diff +25 (10 more points)
Gavet gets stripped, ball around ball, but not a stripping action.
Panthers penalised not square at marker on their line.
Taking the 2 points with 18mins to go.
Stupid in my opinion.
Panthers finish strong normally.
Short kick off by Penrith to Fus, who gobbles it up.
Scrappy end to set, SJ ran it, bit caught and Hiku kicks it out on full to allow Panthers to start on their 30m.
Peachy knocks ball on ground from pass that went behind him.
Luke gets ball knocked out by Panthers as he is passing and they tackling.
Kata scores.
f**k Maumalo must be ropeable. No hugs for Kata, just a mild back tap.
Fus fus gets clear ball all night, I will give that winger had turned out to cover Maumalo.
36-4
Live points diff +33 (4 more points)
Panthers didn't learn, another short kick to Fus.
Gavet loses ball on 2nd tackle on our 40m
Harris off with 11mins to go.
Blake steam rolls RTS to score.
Going back to look but Merrin offload with 3 defenders to RCG clean who gets on outside.
Blake with 3 in front still score.
Panther final 10mins strong.
36-10
Live points diff +26 (10 points needed)
Harris missed already in defense down that side.
Cleary kick through earns a repeat set.
Short kick out doesn't work.
Merrin scores next to the post.
f**k me guys. Get Harris back on
36-16
Live points diff +21 (16 points needed)
Cleary chip and chase for Harawira-Naera knocks it forward by RTS desperation to get to ball.
Need a try to pull back this point diff.
6 point is 12 point gain against Panthers.
Lino average kick though with Cleary sitting back in the line easy pick up for him.
Cue looks to be in the rack.
Maumalo knocks on a potential intercept pushing them up in the defensive line.
We are playing finals baby!
