Full Time
80:00
7:50pm Thu May 17, 2018
Round 11 - BlueBet Stadium, Penrith / Dharug - Crowd: 15081
78min

SCRUM PANTHERS - Marsters has a crack at a try in the corner, but he's taken into touch.

74min

SCRUM TIGERS - Cleary loses the ball in the tackle.

70min

PENALTY TIGERS - They will kick for touch and go into unknown territory for this half, the Panthers half.

68min

PENALTY PANTHERS - Phillips threw a pass infield. Benji recovered and passed for a team mate. None expected it and Penrith regathered. Tigers gave away a penalty on the next tackle., on their own line.

67min

DROP OUT TIGERS - Maloney with another magnificent grubber on the second tackle. All of Penrith and Emu Plains are chasing through, looking for a try but Nofoaluma beats them all.

65min

SCRUM PANTHERS - Tigers are even giving away penalties or giving away possession from knock-ons.

64min

Tyrone Phillips denied a second try for the half after another great cover tackle.

62min

DROP OUT TIGERS - Maloney with a great grubber. Nofoaluma cleans up but is trapped in-goal.

60min

DROP OUT TIGERS - MWZ and Thompson almost run into each other trying to field a bomb. The ball bounces into the Tigers in-goal. Thompson knocks it dead just before the Panthers pounce on it.

58min

Penalty Goal: Panthers
Kicked by James Maloney.

Maloney slots a penalty goal

Panthers lead Panthers 16 - 2 Wests Tigers
56min

Twal binned for hands on the ball.

56min

PENALTY PANTHERS - Hetherington loses the ball in the tackle, but Twal is ruled to have had his hand on it and he gets sent to the bin.

56min

SCRUM PANTHERS - Tigers with some woeful hands lose the ball inside their own half. Panthers have their tail up and look keen for points.

56min

Panthers with some magnificent fast, open play very nearly scores, but Crichton drops the ball in the process of grounding it due to the great cover tackle by MAlakai Watene-Zelezniak

54min

Penalty Goal: Panthers
Kicked by James Maloney.

Maloney from in front nails the extras.

Panthers lead Panthers 14 - 2 Wests Tigers
53min

PENALTY PANTHERS - McQueen offside. Tigers getting close to a caution now.

52min

PENALTY PANTHERS - Kikau barges over but it's called back because Peachey took out McQueen. However, The Tigers were offside at the start of the play.

51min

PENALTY PANTHERS - Tigers edge defenders drag the tackled Panthers player into touch.

50min

PENALTY PANTHERS - Lawrence ruled to have tackled Crichton while he is in the air fielding a bomb.

49min

Chee Kam makes a break on the left side, runs for 30m before getting tackled, just inside the Panthers half.

47min

Marsters performs a 1-on-1 strip on Merrin, but Penrith pounce on it, getting a fresh set deep inside the Tigers half.

46min

Maloney chooses to run on the last, throwing another lobbed pass to Phillips, however this time the winger is shut down.

45min

Panthers starting to fire up the second phase play

39min

SCRUM TIGERS - Brooks puts in a grubber and Cleary knocks on trying to pick it up. The refs then wait a minute before making the call.

38min

SCRUM TIGERS - Tamou knocks the ball out of Brooks hands.

37min

PENALTY TIGERS - Penrith holding down too long. Tigers get an easy out

35min

Conversion: Panthers
Attempted by James Maloney.

Maloney from the left touchline is unable to convert.

Panthers lead Panthers 12 - 2 Wests Tigers
34min

Try: Panthers
Scored by Tyrone Phillips. Kick to come.

Maloney with a beautiful looping cut out pass to Phillips, who leaps in the air to try and avoid the diving cover tackle of Nofoaluma, and then plants it for a spectacular try.

Panthers lead Panthers 12 - 2 Wests Tigers
33min

Tigers have really capitalised on the one man advantage. They spent most of the time defending.

32min

Cleary's kick was taken by Harawera-Naera, however he couldn't get the ball away.

30min

PENALTY PANTHERS - Eisenhuth penalised for holding down too long.

29min

Maloney drops the ball taking on the line late in the set. Change over.

26min

Conversion: Panthers
Kicked by James Maloney.

Maloney just to the left of the posts, nails the goal.

Panthers lead Panthers 8 - 2 Wests Tigers
25min

Try: Panthers
Scored by Tyrone Peachey. Kick to come.

Cleary with a tidy little grubber finds Peachey who gets a lovely bounce to score near the posts.

Panthers lead Panthers 6 - 2 Wests Tigers
24min

PENALTY PANTHERS - Tigers working over the tackled player on halfway. Penrith inside the Tigers 25m now.

24min

Brooks passes to Benji, but it goes over his shoulder and Penrith survive.

23min

Merrin marched for breaking the refs patience.

22min

PENALTY TIGERS - Merrin gets marched 2 penalties after the warning.

21min

PENALTY TIGERS - Panthers done for blocking. Tigers now with a full set inside the Panthers 25m

19min

SCRUM TIGERS - Yeo spills the ball due to thinking too much.

18min

Penalty Goal: Panthers
Kicked by James Maloney.

Maloney knocks over the penalty goal.

Tied up at Panthers 2 - 2 Wests Tigers
16min

PENALTY PANTHERS - Penrith kept milking for a penalty until the ref called it.

15min

SCRUM PANTHERS - Brooks receives a dog of a pass from Taylor and he puts it down.

14min

PENALTY TIGERS - 2 tackles after the caution and the Panthers are pinged again, and warned again.

12min

PENALTY TIGERS - And the ref has decided to give Maloney a caution after giving away 4 straight penalties. This time its for being offside again. Tigers 20m from the Panthers line.

11min

PENALTY TIGERS - Benji catches the Panthers marker defence all over the shop. Tigers again with a piggy back out of their own half again.

10min

Benji grubbers on the third tackle for Nofoaluma, but Cleary cleans up.

9min

PENALTY TIGERS - Taylor tackled a little high. Tigers with a piggy back out of their own half after the restart.

7min

Penalty Goal: Wests Tigers
Kicked by Esan Marsters.

Marsters slots the penalty goal from in front

Wests Tigers lead Panthers 0 - 2 Wests Tigers
6min

PENALTY TIGERS - Penrith again up too quickly.

6min

PENALTY TIGERS - Penrith up too quickly.

4min

Maloney with a brilliant kick, taken by Peachey just 2m from the Tigers line, who flings it back. Phillips regathers and puts in a little kick that is cleanly taken down low by Thompson.

3min

Maloney with a nice kick to the Tigers corner. Nofoaluma fields it and manages to run back in goal and then into the field of play.

2min

PENALTY PANTHERS - Benji penalised for tackling DWZ while he was taking a bomb. Benji was contesting the bomb as well though....

1min

Penrith end their first set with a bomb from just past halfway which Thompson swallows effortlessly.

Tigers kick off and the Panthers have first use of the ball.

Referees & scorers:

Referee: Ben Cummins, Jon Stone

Touch Judges: Michael Wise, Tim Roby

Video Referee: Ashley Klein, Luke Patten

PENRITH PANTHERS (16)
Tries: Tyrone Peachey, Tyrone Phillips
Field Goals:
Conversions: James Maloney (1/2)
Penalty Goals: James Maloney (3/3)

WESTS TIGERS (2)
Tries:
Field Goals:
Conversions:
Penalty Goals: Esan Marsters (1/1)