Warriors have eight seconds. One simple hit-up. FULLTIME! Wow! Wow! Wow!
RED LIGHTS.. NO TRY! Rapana went airborne. He looked certain to get it down. In comes a diving RTS who knocks it away! FULL-TIME!
Raiders spread it left. Big looping pass to Rapana. He dives to line. HAS HE GOT THERE.
Raiders have one final chance.. if they can get the short kick-off right! They have it!
Nikorima has the kick to waste more time. He crept it inside the post.
Warriors spread it right. Pompey ignores the man and goes himself. He dives over.
Nikorima gets SET RESTART! Warriors have a full set to win this!
Raiders just make six straight rucks. On last, Starling just dives for the ground. Handover. Warriors have to go the distance.
No thought of the two. Hodgson will tap it. Six tackles to finish this game off.
Warriors go short! Well, it was too deep. Caught and it was thrown away! Simmonsson makes the catch.. and throws it away. CHALLENGE from the Raiders. Calling for a tackle in mid-air. SUCCESSFUL! PENALTY RAIDERS!
Raiders finish the set with Wighton bombing it right on the line. RTS just gets out. Next tackle, Fusitu'a is driven back. Dropout.
Warriors try to spread it left. Pompey got through and loses it.CHALLENGE! Warriors don't think he knocked it on. Crowd might riot if he is successful. Going through it. UNSUCCESSFUL.
Nikorima with the shot to put them within three points. Kept it straight and over.
RTS has been a workhorse all afternoon and gets himself on the scoresheet. It was a nice offload and the fullback swoops.
Warriors force a repeat set there. O'Sullivan dribbles one behind. Wighton is there and covers up.
Sean O'Sullivan pokes his nose through but his pass to RTS is low and knocked on.
Warriors go short side on last and messed it up.
The natives are restless in the nation's capital! They booed every tackle in that Raiders set.
Nikorima kicks it. They were within nine now.
Warriors are back in this! Nikorima again takes the line on, ran and ran, floats one to Murdoch-Masila who dives over. Fans are calling it forward. Referee awards it.
PENALTY RAIDERS! High tackle. Big reprieve for the Raiders.
Warriors have played a lot of flat passes but this one goes awry.
Warriors just chug over halfway and got themselves a restart.
Warriors were just rolling downfield in that set. It finished with a kick that hits the post and into the hands of Croker.
Nikorima converts.
Put that down to Ben Murdoch-Masila. He streaked through, gave it to RTS, who jinked and spun before he is captured by George Williams. Tackles later, Sironen crosses after a restart.
Croker puts the margin back to 19.
Whitehead got there not Hodgson
The worries continue for the Raiders. Curtis Scott is nursing a floating rib injury and in the last set, Nicoll-Klokstad was down clutching a shoulder.
Nikorima has a chance to convert his own effort. Misses it.
Kodi Nikorima started it and finishes the four-pointer in style! He drifted right, offloaded, stayed alive and sliced through.
We're back for the second half! Warriors need to dig up, out of their hole! Down 19 points and taking on a Raiders side that is wounded.
Williams puts the exclamation point on a superb first half from the Raiders!
Raiders have the ball on a string. Williams takes it right to the line, finds his man, and Rapana toes ahead for the dropout.
Warriors tried to go through the middle. Murdoch-Masila charges through the line but is captured. Last tackle kick is over the sideline. Seven tackle set.
Kris now confirmed out. Warriors finally have the ball back again. They were about to send a missing person's report for it.
Croker from mid range again. No mistake.
Green Machine is churning out the points! Williams dummies, hits the afterburners and rolls over.
Oh dear. Warriors kick it out on the full!
Another easy kick and Croker boots it easily.
Raiders going the power route! Passes close to the post and Soliola crashes over.
PENALTY RAIDERS! Now they get a penalty. James is OUT for the contest with his HIA. Seb Kris is still tough-and-go. Ankle ligaments for Joseph Tapine.
Warriors get the set restart but cough it up!
Warriors have probed again. It was a double knock on. First came from Croker.
PENALTY WARRIORS! Shoulder charge from Papalii.
Wighton straightens up to take the line on again. He slices through but forgot the ball.
PENALTY RAIDERS! Tevaga and Hiku go above the horizontal. Penalty and nothing else.
Croker raises the flags again.
Raiders keep it close to the sticks and Ryan Sutton crashes over.. and takes the post with him!
Hodgson dabs the perfect kick which traps RTS in-goal. He was waiting for some spin but no dice.
Magic from RTS. Somehow he trips the light fantastic and avoids the sideline. Warriors keep the ball. RTS almost had a try in their previous set after a set play with Sean O'Sullivan
Croker resumes kicking duties for the Raiders. He keeps it low and over.
Jack Wighton takes them on and takes the points. Straightened at the last moment and slices through.
Raiders get a better attacking kick this time and David Fusitu'a knocks on.
Time off again. Some friendly fire from Ryan James and Sebastian Kris sees both men down after a headclash. Both will surely go off for a HIA. Raiders might be down to a single man on the bench.
Raiders counter! Warriors tried to get too expansive.. offload goes to ground. Off goes Rapana, he steadies and finds Nicoll-Klokstad who is wrapped up. Williams dribbles a kick in which goes dead.
Time off! Joseph Tapine was prone for a whole set. Once Raiders have taken possession, time is called off. He is limping off the field and Ryan James makes his way onto the field.
Warriors are pushing forward at ease. Jazz Tevaga brushed off defenders at will then on last, it took a circus act but the Raiders clear.
Nikorima from mid range. He raises the flags.
Warriors with some slick ball work. Fonua-Blake steams into the gap and opens the scoring!
Warriors showing some early spirit here. Get a repeat set after a touch.. it leads to.
Seb Kris with a wonderful take to beat RTS to the ball. The centre-cum-forward almost rolled to the line but RTS recovered in time.
Jazz was out of tune on that carry. The lock spills it and the Raiders make up for their mistake.
KICK-OFF! Warriors strut to the ball and the kick bounces and goes out! Dropout!
Here come the Warriors onto the manicured surface in Canberra. Addin Fonua-Blake is near the front of the charge in his 100th game of NRL football. Next of course, is the clap, the viking one that is! Done by Robbie Giteau who gets the crowd rocking and rolling before the familiar strains of 'green machine' bring the home side onto the paddock! Ready to try and get a three and zero record for the season against a gritty Warriors outfit.
It's Saturday, Saturday.. gotta get down on Saturday. By down, I mean watch all three games of Rugba League! We start in the nation's captial! Canberra have had a muted but 2 and 0 start to the season while the Warriors fell back to earth after their first up shock against the Titans. Raiders have shuffled their back to include a back there (Sebastian Kris) while the Warriors are without Chanel Harris-Tavita so it makes for an intriguing contest to watch! Strap in and enjoy!
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Henry Perenara
Touch Judges: Rickey McFarlane, Drew Oultram
Video Referee: Steve Chiddy
CANBERRA RAIDERS (31)
Tries: Jack Wighton, Ryan Sutton, Iosia Soliola, George Williams, Elliott Whitehead
Field Goals: George Williams (1/1)
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Jarrod Croker (5/5)
Penalty Goals:
WARRIORS (34)
Tries: Addin Fonua-Blake, Kodi Nikorima, Bayley Sironen, Ben Murdoch-Masila, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, Adam Pompey
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Kodi Nikorima (5/6)
Penalty Goals: