Match Centre

Manu attempts a chip over the top, but the kick need a ladder and an elevator. Game over, Penrith hold on

Roosters were confused as to how to turn the ball over there, eventually settled on a kick to Staines.

SCRUM PANTHERS - Staines with a great tackle on Keighran on the Panthers goal line, forces the ball loose

PENALTY ROOSTERS - Illegal strip, they take a quick tap and Butcher finds Tedesco who very nearly scores.

PENALTY ROOSTERS - Roosters now 10m inside the Panthers half.

Kikau with another brilliant play and offload and very nearly gets May a try, but Tupou puts him into touch,

SCRUM PANTHERS - Tupou knock on. Roosters challenge and fail.

PENALTY ROOSTERS - Hutchison makes a break and gets the Roosters into Panthers territory. Edwards pinged for holding on too long in the tackle.

Radley inserts his shoulders into the place where Momirovski's ribs used to be.

Luai with a grubber that Walker bats dead. Roosters drop out

Baker with an offload that goes to....Penrith.

PENALTY ROOSTERS - Illegal strip. Tedesco takes a sneaky quick tap and steals a further 15 metres

SCRUM ROOSTERS - Panthers with a legal strip but they dropped the ball in the process. Roosters with a full set 10m from the Panthers line.

Tedesco with another run that looks like he takes running drills amongst dodgem cars. Roosters force another Panthers drop out from the next tackle.

SET RESTART ROOSTERS - 30m from their own line

SCRUM ROOSTERS - Leota found to have lost the ball. Scrum sets 10m from the Roosters line

First tackle. Leota loses the ball. Panthers challenge

PENALTY PANTHERS - Keighran takes a stunning catch ingoal to earn his side a 7 tackle set, but yet another escort by the Roosters.

Burton grubbers, collected by Manu, who is then trapped ingoal. Roosters drop out.

PENALTY PANTHERS - Challenge successful. Illegal strip by Roosters. Penrith with a full set 15m from the Roosters line

Penrith with a refs challenge. Capewell ruled to have lost it originally.

Verrills loses the ball deep in his own half. Having a night to forget the young bloke

Burton with a great run from dummy half, makes 40m

Butcher's pass went to G.Rass and then knocked on by Crichton, 10m from the Panthers line.

Tedesco with a gorgeous kick into the Panthers in-goal. Momirovski cleans up but he is trapped in goal. Panthers drop out

PENALTY ROOSTERS - They'll find touch 15m shy of halfway

Roosters resume play

PENALTY PANTHERS - Kikau is up. Shoulder charge by Tupouniua.

Kikau got destroyed. I didn't see a Tiger tank on the field....

Butcher on report. It was clumsy. Deserved the penalty just for doing an advanced Hindmarsh flop

PENALTY PANTHERS - High tackle.

SET RESTART PANTHERS - again

SET RESTART PANTHERS - still inside the Roosters 30

PENALTY PANTHERS - 30m from the Roosters line

Referee enforcing social distancing now.

Players are now getting together to share their covid-19 test results

Walker kicked for Tupou, but it goes dead. Panthers with a 7 tackle set

Manu with an unpossible offload. The next play saw a Roosters grubber force another Panthers drop out

PENALTY PANTHERS - Crichton penalised for sporting an unfashionable head bandage and a top knot.

Walker escorted Kikau. Kikau probably thought the grass was a bit long....

PENALTY PANTHERS - Bunker has found Walker was an escort in the lead-up. They still looked at the contest for the ball because....underpants?

REFS CHALLENGE by Penrith. Luai's kick finds Kikau and goes back and Penrith almost score. Ref ruled a knock on by Penrith.

SCRUM PANTHERS - Verrills at dummy half throws a bag of turds to the feet of Keighran.

Edwards rocking the Michael Jackson, one-glove look. Even brought out some of his footwork too.

Butcher with a grubber on the last and Staines knocks it dead. Panthers drop out

Liu gets half through a gap and the Roosters are on the front foot.

SCRUM ROOSTERS - Yeo attempted a hit and spin with an imaginary ball.

Momirovski shut down Manu faster than I can eat Taco's

SCRUM PENRITH - Verrills knock on at dummy half.

SET RESTART ROOSTERS - Full set 15m from the Panthers line

Roosters defensive line is quick off the mark so far, forcing Penrith to play almost entirely through the middle.

Next play, Kikau offloads out the back and nearly creates an opportunity for his winger

Penrith with a trick play at dummy half, mocking the Wests Tigers no dummy half play last week, except, they actually had a dummy half arrive, eventually.

Pink Panthers kick off - da-dum, da-dum....

Penrith are undefeated against the Roosters in all games played on August 7 in the NRL era (Since 1998)

There have been 2 games between these sides when Penrith has been in second place and the Roosters in fifth place. The 'Home' team won on each occasion - Roosters in 2014 32-12 and Panthers in 2021 38-12.