Full Time
80:00
3:00pm Sat June 19, 2021
Round 15 - McDonald Jones Stadium, New Lambton / Awabakal - Crowd: 9975
80min

That's full time and the Knights win an absolute bludger in Newy against the Warriors. Next week, the Warriors play the Dragons on the Central Coast on Friday evening, while the Knights are back at home on Saturday night against the Cowboys

80min

Nevermind, I'm a moron. The challenge is successful, Knights will get the penalty and there'll be no hail mary set from the Warriors

80min

David Klemmer loses the ball but he's challenging. It'll be unsuccessful, and the Warriors will have 38 seconds after the scrum win to go 90 odd metres and win the game

79min

Ben Murdoch-Masila gets an early shower in the sin bin

79min

Ben Murdoch-Masila gets Hymel Hunt high. Penalty Knights

78min

Roger Tuivasa-Sheck can't take Pearce's bomb. The Knights will have a scrum win and you'd think they'll win it from here

78min

Reece Walsh kicks off high. Dominic Young knocks it backwards and it is picked up by the Knights.

78min

Conversion: Knights
Attempted by Jake Clifford.

Jake Clifford's sideline attempt is well wide to the right. 3 minutes to go

Knights lead Knights 10 - 6 Warriors
78min

Try: Knights
Scored by Brodie Jones. Kick to come.

Jayden Brailey and Pearce do well to take advantage of the overlap, spreading it to Brodie Jones who dives over to give the Knights the lead with not long at all to go

Knights lead Knights 10 - 6 Warriors
77min

Enari Tuala goes right through the line and links up with Connor Watson, but he is tackled in a potential gamesaver by Roger Tuivasa-Sheck

76min

Field Goal: Warriors
Attempted by Reece Walsh.

Walsh tries another field goal but it's wide left. It'll be a lot harder for the Warriors to kick one, they're kicking into the wind

Tied up at Knights 6 - 6 Warriors
75min

Field Goal: Warriors
Attempted by Reece Walsh.

Reece Walsh's field goal attempt is charged down. The Warriors regather and will get 6 more

Tied up at Knights 6 - 6 Warriors
73min

Jack Johns cleans up Eliesa Katoa's grubber

73min

Penalty Warriors that should read, my mistake

72min

Aitken is hit high by Jacob Saifiti, penalty Knights

71min

Clifford's grubber this time isn't as good. It goes about 1 metre and is dived on by Ben Murdoch-Masila

70min

The dropout is fielded well by Hymel Hunt

70min

Walsh has to bat Jake Clifford's grubber over the dead ball line

68min

It's a 40/20 by Jake Clifford after Reece Walsh plays at the ball with his last point of contact being outside the field of play

68min

Connor Watson does well to cut off Sean O’Sullivan's grubber in the field of play. Knights survive

66min

Connor Watson has to take the ball dead. Another set of 6 for the Warriors coming up

65min

Jacob Saifiti loses the ball this time. This has been a really grim game of footy...

64min

Reece Walsh loses the ball

63min

The Warriors kick bounces off the post and the only reason Sean O’Sullivan doesn't score is because of Mitchell Barnett saving the day by diving on the ball. Repeat set for the Warriors

62min

Warriors get a penalty

61min

Jake Clifford can't get the ball back in the field of play. It goes dead, and the Warriors have a 7 tackle set

60min

Kurt Mann is off the field. Knights have another attacking set

60min

Kurt Mann is down following contact from Eliesa Katoa, who is also a little ginger

57min

The dropout from Reece Walsh is a pearler, it bounces just inside the field of play and then goes into touch, right past Brodie Jones

57min

Lachlan Fitzgibbon is cleared of pushing RTS into the ball, challenge unsuccessful

57min

Roger Tuivasa-Sheck makes contact with the ball before it goes dead, but he's challenging

55min

Roger Tuivasa-Sheck drops Nikorima's offload, Knights will et a scrum win in enemy territory

55min

Reece Walsh was 100/1 to catch that one and he knew it, so he let it bounce. The ball goes over the dead ball line

53min

Young does well to field the kickoff. There's a huge breeze, hence all the oddities occurring with kicks

52min

Penalty Goal: Knights
Kicked by Jake Clifford.

Jake Clifford makes no mistake with this one

Tied up at Knights 6 - 6 Warriors
52min

They'll take the two

51min

Reece Walsh can't handle the spiralling bomb and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck touches it in an offside position. Knights get a penalty 10 metres away from the Warriors line

49min

Reece Walsh is hit high by Klemmer. Penalty Warriors

48min

Reece Walsh takes a great diving catch of Nikorima's crossfield kick but he ends up just short of the line. Knights now struggling to bring it out of their own end

47min

Daniel Saifiti is heading off for an HIA

46min

Kurt Mann drops the ball after Roger Tuivasa-Sheck's tackle, while Josh Curran can't clean up. Double knock on, first one Knights

45min

Bayley Sironen has failed his HIA

43min

Eliesa Katoa goes through the line and is stopped by Kurt Mann. Sean O’Sullivan then loses it on the last

42min

Mann collects Tevaga's grubber. Knights survive

41min

Walsh's kickoff is held up in the wind and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck is able to regather. Warriors immediately on the attack

40min

Players are back out there ahead of the second half

40min

That'll be half

40min

Marcelo Montoya gets an emergency offload to Curran, who the ball rebounded off over the sideline

39min

Set restart for WAR

38min

Pearce's kick is caught by Eliesa Katoa

37min

Reece Walsh's kick from inside the 40 finds touch 2 metres short of the 20.

35min

Sean O'Sullivan's kick doesn't get through the defensive line and the Knights dive on the ball and survive

34min

Nonetheless, Warriors on the attack and looking dangerous

34min

Lachlan Fitzgibbon tackles Kodi Nikorima high. Nikorima was about two feet off the ground but we all know that mitigating factors don't exist in this era. Fitzgibbon will go to the bin in farcical scenes

33min

Knights are offside on the kick chase, penalty Warriors

32min

The Knights have had 65% of the ball so far

32min

Conversion: Knights
Attempted by Jake Clifford.

Jake Clifford sprays the conversion wide right. No goal

Warriors lead Knights 4 - 6 Warriors
31min

Try: Knights
Scored by Lachlan Fitzgibbon. Kick to come.

Lachlan Fitzgibbon redeems himself. He runs a superb line off Mitchell Pearce and is too strong for Eliesa Katoa, crashing over to give Newy a chance at levelling up

Warriors lead Knights 4 - 6 Warriors
30min

Jake Clifford goes very close to scoring and the Warriors give away a penalty for forcing the ball out of his grasp

29min

Clifford's grubber is dived on by Sean O’Sullivan. Another repeat set coming up

27min

The kickoff is allowed to bounce by RTS and Leeson Ah Mau can't bring it out of his own in goal. The Knights will have another attacking set

27min

Conversion: Warriors
Kicked by Reece Walsh.

Reece Walsh curls the ball back in from the sideline

Warriors lead Knights 0 - 6 Warriors
26min

Try: Warriors
Scored by Euan Aitken. Kick to come.

A try against the run of play for the Warriors! Kurt Mann dropped the ball in a backline play and Euan Aitken was there to pounce. He had nobody in front of him but it looked like Dominic Young would catch him. He didn't, and the Warriors are on the board

Warriors lead Knights 0 - 4 Warriors
25min

Kurt Mann almost knocks on from the dropout

24min

No try confirmed, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck grounded the ball and the Knights will get a repeat set

24min

Jake Clifford is claiming a try but the ref thinks RTS grounded the ball before Jake Clifford

23min

Bayley Sironen makes a mess of the play the ball, another opportunity now for Newcastle

22min

Knights again can't get a kick away on the last, Klemmer is tackled and it'll be a handover

21min

Set restart for NEW

21min

Sean O’Sullivan runs behind his own man and gives away a penalty in possession as the kick only just finds touch

19min

Pearce scrambles to get a kick in on the last and RTS takes it easily

18min

Set restart for NEW

18min

Nikorima's kick is taken comfortably by Mitchell Barnett

17min

Euan Aitken drops it 5 metres from the line with daylight in front of him

17min

Set restart for WAR

15min

Reece Walsh makes a huge line break on the kick return, beating 3 or 4 Knights defenders. He looked home for all money but Jayden Brailey came out of nowhere to produce a trysaver akin to Xavier Coates the other night. Warriors now attacking the line

11min

Lachlan Fitzgibbon again drops the ball, this time after contact

11min

Set restart for NEW

10min

Addin Fonua-Blake collects Brailey high and gives away a penalty on the 5th. Knights needed that, they were going nowhere that set

8min

Nikorima's kick was allowed to bounce by Young. Knights up beyond the 30 on their 3rd

7min

Jake Clifford's kick on the 3rd isn't a good one, it goes straight to Reece Walsh

6min

Set restart for NEW

6min

Kodi Nikorima can't get a kick away on the 5th. Knights will play it just shy on the 40 to start their set

4min

Warriors get a penalty now, Josh Curran was held back off the ball by Jake Clifford

3min

Jazz Tevaga gives away a penalty for putting Sauaso Sue in a dangerous position

3min

Reece Walsh now drops it cold on the first play after the scrum win

2min

Lachlan Fitzgibbon drops it cold, Warriors on the attack

1min

Underway and Reece Walsh is tackled on the 21 metre line after a high kickoff that didn't go that deep

Hello and welcome to LeagueUnlimited's coverage of Super Saturday and to start with we are up at Newcastle as the Knights prepare to take on the Warriors. Ponga was ruled out earlier in the week so Kurt Mann moves back to fullback to accommodate, while Brodie Jones moves in to start at centre. Mitchell Barnett will start in the second row, which sees Sauaso Sue start at lock and Josh King come onto the bench. For the Warriors, Adam Pompey is a late inclusion at centre, which sees Rocco Berry drop out and Taniela Otukolo come onto the bench. Just over 5 minutes until kickoff now

Referees & scorers:

Referee: Chris Butler

Touch Judges: Drew Oultram, Mark Bohan

Video Referee: Steve Chiddy

NEWCASTLE KNIGHTS (10)
Tries: Lachlan Fitzgibbon, Brodie Jones
Conversions: Jake Clifford (0/2)
Penalty Goals: Jake Clifford (1/1)

WARRIORS (6)
Tries: Euan Aitken
Field Goals: Reece Walsh (0/2)
Conversions: Reece Walsh (1/1)