WARRIORS - 6 again
Walsh leaps to take a bomb but knocks it on, 15m from the Warriors line.
Johnson down struggling with a leg injury in back play
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.
PENALTY ROOSTERS - Walsh puts up a bomb which is allowed to bounce. The Warriors regather but nearly all of their players are offside.
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
Walker nails the goal.
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
SCRUM ROOSTERS - DWZ pinged for a knock on. Roosters will get a full set on the Warriors line.
SCRUM WARRIORS - AFB with a knock on. Warriors using a refs challenge. Unsuccessful challenge.
Walsh from the right sideline nails the goal.
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.
PENALTY WARRIORS - they get a gift walk up to near halfway
Walker from out wide on the left side converts his own try
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.
PENALTY ROOSTERS - starting to build some momentum now
Walker converts
Naiqama gets into some clear space and scores close-ish to the posts
Play stopped as Curran gets some panel beating done.
PENALTY ROOSTERS - They find touch 10m inside the Warriors half
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.
Going to the bunker for a Warriors try
WARRIORS 6 again
CHT with a rather average kick gets lucky as the Roosters knock it on close to their line and the Warriors clean up.
WARRIORS 6 again
SCRUM WARRIORS - Roosters with another dropped ball. Very sloppy today.
PENALTY WARRIORS - Crusher tackle by Roosters on DWZ
Suaalii very nearly gets across the line. On the next play Keary's kick is cleaned up nicely by Walsh
Walker levels the scores
PENALTY ROOSTERS - Egan with some sloppy defence. Roosters will take the two.
PENALTY ROOSTERS - Walsh kicks off and it's almost 6 runs
Arthars kick finds touch 2m from the Roosters line
PENALTY WARRIORS - They find touch 20m from halfway
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.
Walker's kick goes out on the full. Warriors will start their set on halfway
Walsh almost blindly competes for a bomb and knocks it on. The Roosters clean up, 10m from their own line
Curran returns
Walker from the left sideline threads the needle
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.
SCRUM ROOSTERS - Keary's kick is knocked on by DWZ
Johnson hoofs a quick downfield and it rolls dead.
ROOSTERS 6 again on halfway
Johnson's grubber very nearly finds AFB - but the ball beats everyone over the dead ball line
Johnson's grubber very nearly finds AFB - but the ball beats everyone over the dead ball line
PENALTY WARRIORS - JWH on report for an accidental high tackle. Where was he supposed to go etc
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.
Curran hobbling badly off the field, doesn't look good for him.
PENALTY WARRIORS - Roosters with a stray pass and Arthars dives on the loose ball, getting tackled before he claims the ball.
SCRUM ROOSTERS - they get another full set inside the Warriors red zone
Walsh from wide out on the left side and nails the goal
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.
DROP OUT ROOSTERS - Warriors building some pressure...kinda
SCRUM ROOSTERS - And Hutchison fumbles the ball at the back of the scrum.
Walsh nails the penalty goal from in front.
PENALTY WARRIORS - Great bustling run by AFB but he was brought down by the bootlaces by Tedesco, who hung on too long.
Warriors 6 again, inside the Roosters 30m
good end-to-end action so far, but neither side making any inroads or building any momentum
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)