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
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
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
Ben Murdoch-Masila gets an early shower in the sin bin
Ben Murdoch-Masila gets Hymel Hunt high. Penalty Knights
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
Reece Walsh kicks off high. Dominic Young knocks it backwards and it is picked up by the Knights.
Jake Clifford's sideline attempt is well wide to the right. 3 minutes to go
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
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
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
Reece Walsh's field goal attempt is charged down. The Warriors regather and will get 6 more
Jack Johns cleans up Eliesa Katoa's grubber
Penalty Warriors that should read, my mistake
Aitken is hit high by Jacob Saifiti, penalty Knights
Clifford's grubber this time isn't as good. It goes about 1 metre and is dived on by Ben Murdoch-Masila
The dropout is fielded well by Hymel Hunt
Walsh has to bat Jake Clifford's grubber over the dead ball line
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
Connor Watson does well to cut off Sean O’Sullivan's grubber in the field of play. Knights survive
Connor Watson has to take the ball dead. Another set of 6 for the Warriors coming up
Jacob Saifiti loses the ball this time. This has been a really grim game of footy...
Reece Walsh loses the ball
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
Warriors get a penalty
Jake Clifford can't get the ball back in the field of play. It goes dead, and the Warriors have a 7 tackle set
Kurt Mann is off the field. Knights have another attacking set
Kurt Mann is down following contact from Eliesa Katoa, who is also a little ginger
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
Lachlan Fitzgibbon is cleared of pushing RTS into the ball, challenge unsuccessful
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck makes contact with the ball before it goes dead, but he's challenging
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck drops Nikorima's offload, Knights will et a scrum win in enemy territory
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
Young does well to field the kickoff. There's a huge breeze, hence all the oddities occurring with kicks
Jake Clifford makes no mistake with this one
They'll take the two
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
Reece Walsh is hit high by Klemmer. Penalty Warriors
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
Daniel Saifiti is heading off for an HIA
Kurt Mann drops the ball after Roger Tuivasa-Sheck's tackle, while Josh Curran can't clean up. Double knock on, first one Knights
Bayley Sironen has failed his HIA
Eliesa Katoa goes through the line and is stopped by Kurt Mann. Sean O’Sullivan then loses it on the last
Mann collects Tevaga's grubber. Knights survive
Walsh's kickoff is held up in the wind and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck is able to regather. Warriors immediately on the attack
Players are back out there ahead of the second half
That'll be half
Marcelo Montoya gets an emergency offload to Curran, who the ball rebounded off over the sideline
Set restart for WAR
Pearce's kick is caught by Eliesa Katoa
Reece Walsh's kick from inside the 40 finds touch 2 metres short of the 20.
Sean O'Sullivan's kick doesn't get through the defensive line and the Knights dive on the ball and survive
Nonetheless, Warriors on the attack and looking dangerous
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
Knights are offside on the kick chase, penalty Warriors
The Knights have had 65% of the ball so far
Jake Clifford sprays the conversion wide right. No goal
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
Jake Clifford goes very close to scoring and the Warriors give away a penalty for forcing the ball out of his grasp
Clifford's grubber is dived on by Sean O’Sullivan. Another repeat set coming up
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
Reece Walsh curls the ball back in from the sideline
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
Kurt Mann almost knocks on from the dropout
No try confirmed, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck grounded the ball and the Knights will get a repeat set
Jake Clifford is claiming a try but the ref thinks RTS grounded the ball before Jake Clifford
Bayley Sironen makes a mess of the play the ball, another opportunity now for Newcastle
Knights again can't get a kick away on the last, Klemmer is tackled and it'll be a handover
Set restart for NEW
Sean O’Sullivan runs behind his own man and gives away a penalty in possession as the kick only just finds touch
Pearce scrambles to get a kick in on the last and RTS takes it easily
Set restart for NEW
Nikorima's kick is taken comfortably by Mitchell Barnett
Euan Aitken drops it 5 metres from the line with daylight in front of him
Set restart for WAR
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
Lachlan Fitzgibbon again drops the ball, this time after contact
Set restart for NEW
Addin Fonua-Blake collects Brailey high and gives away a penalty on the 5th. Knights needed that, they were going nowhere that set
Nikorima's kick was allowed to bounce by Young. Knights up beyond the 30 on their 3rd
Jake Clifford's kick on the 3rd isn't a good one, it goes straight to Reece Walsh
Set restart for NEW
Kodi Nikorima can't get a kick away on the 5th. Knights will play it just shy on the 40 to start their set
Warriors get a penalty now, Josh Curran was held back off the ball by Jake Clifford
Jazz Tevaga gives away a penalty for putting Sauaso Sue in a dangerous position
Reece Walsh now drops it cold on the first play after the scrum win
Lachlan Fitzgibbon drops it cold, Warriors on the attack
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)