PENALTY WARRIORS - Dragons with an illegal strip. Warriors find touch 29m from halfway
Ravalawa with a grubber that RTS has to take dead in goal. Warriors drop out
SCRUM DRAGONS - 10m from their own line.
SET RESTART WARRIORS - 5m from the Dragons line. Now play is stopped. There's been a 1 on 1 strip and a dropped ball and a partridge in a pear tree
Pompey being helped off the field now
Play stopped now as Pompey is treated for an ankle injury in back play.
Warriors playing hot potato, before a Nikorima grubber is cleaned up by Ravalawa, who then links with Dufty but as soon as Dufty is tackled he loses the ball.
Dragons with a panic play near the left sideline and they eventually lose the ball into touch, 25m from the Warriors line
Nikorima adds another 2 points
PENALTY WARRIORS - Dufty drops the bomb forward and an offside Dragons player picks it up.
Nikorima from wide on right side, nails the conversion.
RTS gets the ball out the back on the right side, shrugs off the tackle by Bird then bursts through the gap in the Dragons edge defence to slam the ball down for a try
Dragons with another short drop out but this time they don't get it back
Tevaga with another big hit forces Dufty to lose the ball.
Lomax from in front, converts
Clune runs up to the line and then grubbers between the posts and Dufty flies through and grounds the ball before it rolls dead to score
PENALTY DRAGONS - BMM offside
Play stopped due to Tohu Harris copping a head knock in a heavy tackle where he was slung to the ground
Dragons with a knock on when fielding the kick on the last and the Warriors are off the hook.
SCRUM DRAGONS - 15m from the Warriors line
Warriors winning the battle for field position
Dragons with a short drop out and they get the ball back.
Montoya with a chip and chase for himself on the last and forces a Dragons drop out.
Norman kicks to the left and Ramsay bats it back inside to Vaughan who scores. Referee rules that Ramsay tapped the ball forwards. Dragons challenge and fail. No try.
McCullough tried to burrow over for a try but was held up and kept short of the line
Nikorima grubbers and Egan follows through and grounds the ball on the dead ball line, just missing out on a try.
Going to the video to look at a potential Warriors try.
Back underway
SCRUM WARRIORS - Tevaga with a good low tackle on Alvaro forces the Dragons big man to drop the ball, 10m shy of halfway
Norman hoofs it downtown and it just rolls dead in the Warriors in goal.
Lomax from the right sideline just misses again
Dufty cuts out two players to send a long ball to Ravalawa and the powerful winger barges over despite having humans barrelling into him
PENALTY DRAGONS - Montoya runs Bird off the ball. Dragons with a full set inside the Warriors 20m
Ramsay being peppered with bombs and he has been faultless so far.
Kerr tries to catch a cross field kick but cannot hang onto the ball.
SCRUM WARRIORS - Kerr drops the ball again, 25m from the Warriors line
McGuire is on
Refs Challenge - Ref ruled knock on against Dragons. Challenge is successful. Dragons get a fresh set on their 20m line.
Kerr spills a regulation pass on halfway
SET RESTART DRAGONS - 15m from their own line on the first tackle.
SET RESTART WARRIORS - 15m from halfway
Nikorima converts while the Dragons fans are wildly chanting "Good kick".....
Nikorima grubbers into the Dragons ingoal, the ball bounces awkwardly for Dufty who doesn't quite ground it and Turner pounces on the loose ball to score.
PENALTY WARRIORS - Well what a dogs breakfast that was. RTS fields the kick off about an inch in from the field of play and has to throw a panicked pass infield and his team mate knocks on, the Dragons defenders then knock the ball on as well, 5m from the Warriors line, but they were offside apparently.
Nikorima from almost in front, converts
Egan at dummy half, shapes right, runs left and then dishes a short ball to Harris who spins out of the tackle and falls over the line to score to the left of the posts.
PENALTY WARRIORS - BMM tackled without the ball. Warriors take the tap again, 10m from the Dragons line
PENALTY WARRIORS - Curran takes the quick tap 20m from the Dragons line
SET RESTART WARRIORS - awarded on halfway
Norman's kick finds touch 15m from the Warriors line.
Lomax from touch, hits the upright and is waved away
The Dragons put the ball through the hands quickly on the left side - Clune to Norman to Dufty and then onto Ramsay who has clear space in front of him and he scores in the corner.
PENALTY DRAGONS - Evans with a shoulder charge right on halfway
SET RESTART DRAGONS - 10m shy of halfway
so many tackle breaks by both sides already - it's basically an aggressive version of touch footy.
Play stopped as Peta Hiku comes off with a badly injured arm, possibly broken.
SET RESTART DRAGONS - 25m from their own line
Both sides playing with plenty of enthusiasm
Dragons kick off
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Chris Sutton
Touch Judges: Belinda Sharpe, David Munro
Video Referee: Alan Shortall
ST GEORGE ILLAWARRA DRAGONS (14)
Tries: Cody Ramsey, Mikaele Ravalawa, Matthew Dufty
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Zac Lomax (1/3)
Penalty Goals:
WARRIORS (20)
Tries: Tohu Harris, Paul Turner, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Kodi Nikorima (3/3)
Penalty Goals: Kodi Nikorima (1/1)