Full Time
80:00
2:00pm Sun April 17, 2022
Round 6 - Sydney Cricket Ground, Moore Park / Gadigal - Crowd: 11267
79min

WARRIORS - 6 again

76min

Walsh leaps to take a bomb but knocks it on, 15m from the Warriors line.

75min

Johnson down struggling with a leg injury in back play

74min

PENALTY WARRIORS - Collins steams onto a crash ball and falls backwards in front of the posts and he gets the ball down but it's found to be a double movement by the bunker.

73min

PENALTY ROOSTERS - Walsh puts up a bomb which is allowed to bounce. The Warriors regather but nearly all of their players are offside.

72min

Walkers kick resulted in Walsh knocking the ball dead kinda. Sitili Tupouniua was involved in the contest and went close to scoring. Bunker having a look now. No try. Roosters knock on. Warriors 7 tackle set

71min

Penalty Goal: Roosters
Kicked by Sam Walker.

Walker nails the goal.

Roosters lead Roosters 22 - 14 Warriors
71min

PENALTY ROOSTERS - CHT destroys Chrichton in a tackle! Crichton ruled to have fumbled the play the ball. Roosters challenge. Pompey ruled to have deliberate kicked at the ball. Challenge successful

71min

SCRUM ROOSTERS - DWZ pinged for a knock on. Roosters will get a full set on the Warriors line.

71min

SCRUM WARRIORS - AFB with a knock on. Warriors using a refs challenge. Unsuccessful challenge.

69min

Conversion: Warriors
Kicked by Reece Walsh.

Walsh from the right sideline nails the goal.

Roosters lead Roosters 20 - 14 Warriors
68min

Try: Warriors
Scored by Dallin Watene-Zelezniak. Kick to come.

Walsh makes a break through the middle and amongst traffic gets a miraculous cross kick across to the right wing and it hits DWZ perfectly on the chest. DWZ then steps the defender and scores in the corner.

Roosters lead Roosters 20 - 12 Warriors
66min

PENALTY WARRIORS - they get a gift walk up to near halfway

64min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Sam Walker.

Walker from out wide on the left side converts his own try

Roosters lead Roosters 20 - 8 Warriors
62min

Try: Roosters
Scored by Sam Walker. Kick to come.

Walker gets the ball on the short side, steps, spins and then slams the ball down for a try while being held upright in the tackle.

Roosters lead Roosters 18 - 8 Warriors
58min

PENALTY ROOSTERS - starting to build some momentum now

55min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Sam Walker.

Walker converts

Roosters lead Roosters 14 - 8 Warriors
53min

Try: Roosters
Scored by Kevin Naiqama. Kick to come.

Naiqama gets into some clear space and scores close-ish to the posts

Roosters lead Roosters 12 - 8 Warriors
51min

Play stopped as Curran gets some panel beating done.

50min

PENALTY ROOSTERS - They find touch 10m inside the Warriors half

49min

Walsh runs between two lazy short side defenders and falls over the line. Walsh gets tackled from behind and rolled onto his back by Baker and then the ball comes loose. Bunker rules no try - Walsh knocked on.

49min

Going to the bunker for a Warriors try

49min

WARRIORS 6 again

49min

CHT with a rather average kick gets lucky as the Roosters knock it on close to their line and the Warriors clean up.

48min

WARRIORS 6 again

47min

SCRUM WARRIORS - Roosters with another dropped ball. Very sloppy today.

45min

PENALTY WARRIORS - Crusher tackle by Roosters on DWZ

44min

Suaalii very nearly gets across the line. On the next play Keary's kick is cleaned up nicely by Walsh

42min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Sam Walker.

Walker levels the scores

Tied up at Roosters 8 - 8 Warriors
41min

PENALTY ROOSTERS - Egan with some sloppy defence. Roosters will take the two.

40min

PENALTY ROOSTERS - Walsh kicks off and it's almost 6 runs

37min

Arthars kick finds touch 2m from the Roosters line

34min

PENALTY WARRIORS - They find touch 20m from halfway

34min

Kosi fields a kick in his own ingoal, runs towards the field of play and dives down low. as he does, Radley reaching down to try and make a tackle, hits Kosi high. Radley on report.

33min

Walker's kick goes out on the full. Warriors will start their set on halfway

33min

Walsh almost blindly competes for a bomb and knocks it on. The Roosters clean up, 10m from their own line

32min

Curran returns

30min

Conversion: Roosters
Kicked by Sam Walker.

Walker from the left sideline threads the needle

Warriors lead Roosters 6 - 8 Warriors
29min

Try: Roosters
Scored by Daniel Tupou. Kick to come.

From the scrum, the Roosters swing the ball left with some good catch and passing at the line, eventually finds Tupou in clear space and he scores untouched in the corner.

Warriors lead Roosters 4 - 8 Warriors
27min

SCRUM ROOSTERS - Keary's kick is knocked on by DWZ

26min

Johnson hoofs a quick downfield and it rolls dead.

25min

ROOSTERS 6 again on halfway

23min

Johnson's grubber very nearly finds AFB - but the ball beats everyone over the dead ball line

23min

Johnson's grubber very nearly finds AFB - but the ball beats everyone over the dead ball line

22min

PENALTY WARRIORS - JWH on report for an accidental high tackle. Where was he supposed to go etc

22min

Tedesco's grubber is cleaned up by Kosi in the Warriors ingoal. Kosi appears to run behind a team mate to come back into the field of play.

22min

Curran hobbling badly off the field, doesn't look good for him.

20min

PENALTY WARRIORS - Roosters with a stray pass and Arthars dives on the loose ball, getting tackled before he claims the ball.

18min

SCRUM ROOSTERS - they get another full set inside the Warriors red zone

17min

Conversion: Warriors
Kicked by Reece Walsh.

Walsh from wide out on the left side and nails the goal

Warriors lead Roosters 0 - 8 Warriors
15min

Try: Warriors
Scored by Edward Kosi. Kick to come.

Finally the Roosters defence cracks. Pompey receives the ball early on the left, is allowed to run to the line and he waits until he draws the out-of-position Suaalii before passing to Kosi who scores untouched.

Warriors lead Roosters 0 - 6 Warriors
14min

DROP OUT ROOSTERS - Warriors building some pressure...kinda

12min

SCRUM ROOSTERS - And Hutchison fumbles the ball at the back of the scrum.

10min

Penalty Goal: Warriors
Kicked by Reece Walsh.

Walsh nails the penalty goal from in front.

Warriors lead Roosters 0 - 2 Warriors
9min

PENALTY WARRIORS - Great bustling run by AFB but he was brought down by the bootlaces by Tedesco, who hung on too long.

8min

Warriors 6 again, inside the Roosters 30m

7min

good end-to-end action so far, but neither side making any inroads or building any momentum

2min

Game stopped briefly after Johnson bounced off an oblivious JWH

Roosters kick off

Joseph Suaalii running down through a guard of honour made of players that played in a game before he was born

Late change - appears that Naiqama has moved to centre and Suaalii onto the wing

Referees & scorers:

Referee: Ziggy Przeklasa-Adamski

Touch Judges: Dave Munro, Kasey Badger

Video Referee: Alan Shortall

SYDNEY ROOSTERS (22)
Tries: Daniel Tupou, Sam Walker, Kevin Naiqama
Conversions: Sam Walker (4/4)
Penalty Goals: Sam Walker (1/1)

WARRIORS (14)
Tries: Edward Kosi, Dallin Watene-Zelezniak
Conversions: Reece Walsh (2/2)
Penalty Goals: Reece Walsh (1/1)