PENALTY MANLY - Obstruction against Penrith. Manly will get the last few tackles.
Cleary converts
Penrith with a remarkable try. Edwards grubbered into the Manly in-goal and Martin flies through and bats the ball back into the field of play and the ball landed at the feet of Crichton who planted it for a try.
SCRUM PENRITH - Manly throw a forward pass 3 tackles later.
PENALTY MANLY - Play stopped. Matt Burton's shoulder connects with Taupau's chin and leaves the prop worse for wear.
Taupau loses the ball from the kick off
DCE fails to convert
Manly from their own 25m line, spread the ball from left to right where Harper gets a lovely Gidley flick out to Saab unmarked and the he takes off faster than any Saab vehicle could ever dream to travel at. He scores a great try.
Refs Challenge from Manly has been successful
Parker storms onto a great ball and he is shut down with a great goal line tackle, denying Manly yet again.
Fantastic football by everyone here. Penrith with some great tap-on passing to get the ball to To'o unmarked, he makes a beeline for the corner, steps infield to beat one defender but the cover collects him and takes him into touch. Just before he goes out, To'o flicks a pass infield but Kikau knocks it on.
Penrith lose the ball and then a few tackles later, perform a 1-on-1 strip.
A Panthers kick hits the upright, Tom Trbojevic has to run around the post to get a hand on the ball, before Cleary performs a strip but is held up over the line.
SCRUM MANLY - To'o drops a bomb. Manly with a full set inside the Panthers 20m
Cleary adds the extras from close range
Cleary drifts to the left and grubbers through the line. May follows the kick through and grounds the ball for a try to the left of the sticks.
Garrick loses the ball in a heavy tackle, 20m fro his own line. Koroisau cleans up and is tackled 10m shy of the Manly line
PENALTY PENRITH - First tackle off the scrum and To'o is hit high. Penrith find touch 10m shy of halfway
SCRUM PENRITH - 10m from their own line
Jake Trbojevic close to the line and he drops the ball after Manly had 4 straight sets camped on the Panthers line
Another Manly grubber. Another Panthers drop out.
Another Manly grubber and again Penrith send it dead. Panthers drop out.
Schuster grubbers and it is taken dead by the Panthers. Drop out.
Harper steps out of all the tackles, except the last one by Edwards. Lovely run
DCE from in front throws this over the bar
DCE grubbers and it hits the padding on the upright. The ball bounces backwards off Tom Trbojevic and DCE follows through, cleans up and scores under the posts. Bunker now having a look at it. Try awarded.
PENALTY MANLY - High tackle or accidental crusher...take your pick.
A bad pass to the back of Cleary's head and he knocks it on, 25m from the Manly line
SCRUM PENRITH - DCE attempts a 40/20 but he used a 6 iron instead of the 3 wood.
Challenge successful, quite surprisingly.. PENALTY PENRITH - They find touch 30m from their own line.
Manly's bomb is ruled to be knocked on by Penrith. Refs Challenge by Penrith.
Crichton has a crack at a field goal with 1 second left but he just misses
Cleary nails a 40/20 with just 17 seconds left
Schuster kicks on the third tackle and it runs dead faster than a Commodore down Conrod Straight
PENALTY MANLY - Koroisau penalised for a lifting tackle
SCRUM MANLY - Capewell with a knock on at the play the ball, a metre from the Manly line.
Foran's kick on the last goes out on the full. Penrith remain camped in the Manly half
Cleary just to the right of the posts, adds the extras
CLeary dummied long and then dished a short ball to the lead runner Liam Martin, who hit the gap on the right and he slips through to score.
Set Restart Penrith, 2m from the Manly line.
SCRUM PANTHERS - Crichton's pass looked set to put Staines over in the corner, but its knocked down, and forward by Garrick, 10m from the Manly line.
Garrick from the left, misses the conversion
Penrith on the attack on the last tackle, send the ball left where Luai links with Fisher-Harris, who is tackled, but manages to get an offload away, which is intercepted by Tom Trbojevic who runs 70 metres to score
Manly let Cleary run on the last, he sends the ball right to Crichton, who gets a ball to STaines, but the winger is easily bundled into touch.
Cleary almost nails a 40/20 but Saab gets back in time to regather the ball.
Penrith steadily send the ball from right to left and To'o gets shut down and put into touch, 10m from the Manly line.
SCRUM PENRITH - Penrith looking for a crash ball to try and get a try under the posts, but Schuster gets a hand on it and knocks on the intercept attempt.
PENALTY PENRITH - Edwards tackled in the air while taking a bomb, 10m from the Panthers line. Penrith find touch 20m shy of halfway.
Set Restart Manly
Cleary can't quite swing the sideline conversion attempt back.
On the last, Penrith spread the ball left to Luai who throws a gorgeous long ball to To'o who scores untouched in the corner
Set restart Penrith
Cleary nails the conversion from in front
Manly kick to the Panthers left corner. Edwards passes to To'o, who ducks under one tackle, barges out of another, kicks over the top back inside and Edwards follows through, gets a lovely bounce and he scores under the posts.
Garrick kicks the penalty goal.
PENALTY MANLY - Koroisau picks up a loose ball, 10m from his own line, in an off-side position.
The Set Restart bell is ringing more than a 1970's telephone exchange
Set restart for Manly now
And Burton drops the ball on the second tackle, 35m from the Manly line
Back to back set restarts for Penrith in the space of a tackle
Penrith kick off
Both sides are on the field. Penrith in their Black jumper and Tom Trbojevic in his mainly Maroon jumper
Both sides running out onto the park
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Ashley Klein
Touch Judges: Ziggy Przeklasa-Adamski, Kasey Badger
Video Referee: Steve Chiddy
PENRITH PANTHERS (28)
Tries: Dylan Edwards, Brian To'o, Liam Martin, Stephen Crichton, Tyrone May
Field Goals: Stephen Crichton (0/1)
Two Point Field Goals: Stephen Crichton (0/0)
Conversions: Nathan Cleary (4/5)
Penalty Goals:
MANLY-WARRINGAH SEA EAGLES (16)
Tries: Tom Trbojevic, Daly Cherry-Evans, Jason Saab
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Reuben Garrick (0/1), Daly Cherry-Evans (1/2)
Penalty Goals: Reuben Garrick (1/1)