Match Centre

PENALTY COWBOYS - Raiders give away another goal line penalty

PENALTY COWBOYS - Raiders give away a penalty on their own line

PENALTY RAIDERS - A piggyback to take them into the Cowboys half.

SCRUM RAIDERS - Asiata with a good dummy and pass to Linnett who dropped it cold.

PENALTY COWBOYS - Raiders pinged for not clearing the ruck properly.

SCRUM COWBOYS - Sezer finds touch near the Cowboys goal line.

PENALTY RAIDERS - Cowboys ruled to have held down too long in the tackle.

Thurston's grubber is way too weak and Papalii cleans up easily.

Thurston takes the line on and very nearly scores.

PENALTY COWBOYS - Raiders give away a penalty close to their line.

SCRUM RAIDERS - Coote's attempted pass hits Rapana's arm as he makes the tackle.

SCRUM COWBOYS - Sezer with a good long kick and finds touch deep in the Cowboys half.

SCRUM RAIDERS - Cooper loses the ball in a tackle as he runs towards the Raiders line.

PENALTY COWBOYS - Cowboys now 10m from the Raiders line, trail by two and decide not to take a shot at goal.

Both sides lacking discipline with the ball in hand.

SCRUM COWBOYS - Sezer goes to the line and there's a little knock on, on the second tackle.

PENALTY RAIDERS - first tackle after the last penalty and the Cowboys give another away.

PENALTY RAIDERS - Cowboys give away a penalty late in the Raiders set. Raiders are 20m from the Cowboys line and take the tap.

SCRUM RAIDERS - Cowboys passing play ends with a dropped pass.

SCRUM COWBOYS - Cross kick by Sezer is missed by everyone and goes into touch.

SCRUM RAIDERS - Sloppy play the ball by Jensen. Scrum will set 10m inside the Cowboys half.

Nice kick by Hodgson finds space behind the winger, but Winterstein slides to clean up the ball and is tackled 10m from his own line.

Good defensive set by the Raiders here

Sezer waits too long to get a kick in and hits a defender. Raiders soccer it on but Coote very bravely cleans up.

SCRUM COWBOYS - Whitehead lets the restart bounce and the ball takes a 90 degree turn and goes into touch.

Austin on, Croker off.

PENALTY RAIDERS - Cowboys attacking raid very nearly produces a try, but the last pass is intercepted on his own line by Whitehead. The next play the Cowboys give away a penalty.

Croker's knee has given way on him as he was chasing a kick through. He's done.

PENALTY RAIDERS - Cowboys trying to slow the play down.

DROP OUT COWBOYS - Hodgson grubbers from dummy half, close to the line again and Feldt with a great one handed pick up is equal to the task. He can't get out of his own ingoal though.

Hess drops the easy inside ball and the Raiders clean up.

PENALTY COWBOYS - Croker takes to the air to try and catch the bomb, but is ruled to have tackled Feldt

Thurston's bomb is a touch too long and Cotric takes it cleanly in his own in-goal. 7 tackle set for the Raiders.

SCRUM RAIDERS - Granville has a dart from dummy half and almost gets across, but the Raiders defence denies him. Granville then drops the bill as he's playing it.

PENALTY COWBOYS - Raiders give the Cows another full set inside their 20m

SCRUM COWBOYS - Lui knocks on at the play the ball from the restart. Cowboys right on the attack now.

Coote ends the set with a long kick that goes out on the full. Raiders start another set inside the Cowboys half.

Hodgson grubbers from close to the line at dummy half, but Winterstein cleans up.

SCRUM RAIDERS - Martin throws a cut-out pass that is dropped by Wright. Meanwhile Croker fielded the ball and then hit the ground in pain without being tackled. His left knee getting treated.

PENALTY RAIDERS - Cowboys offside at the scrum. Raiders start their set 40m from the Cowboys line.

The trainer puts a few kilometres of electrical tape on Crokers knee and he gets up and will play on.

PENALTY RAIDERS - Cowboys defenders a bit too keen to get off their line.

Hodgson grubbers on the last and Coote reels it in just 10m from his own line.

Cowboys kick off on an icy night in the Nations Capital.