Johnson steps Horsburgh, the only Raiders defender to get off the line to challenge the field goal attempt, and then calmly pots the match winner.
SCRUM WARRIORS
Starling with a forward pass. Warriors will have a full set inside the Raiders 35
Warriors kick off
Walsh from in front kicks the goal and levels the scores
PENALTY WARRIORS - Horsburgh on report
Lodge staying down holding his face, 10m from the Raiders line
SET RESTART WARRIORS
SCRUM WARRIORS - Schneider drops the Johnson kick. Walsh regathers and very nearly scores. Refs challenge by Raiders obviously failed
Rapana grubbers for himself but neither he or Timoko could turn it into points.
Asi attempts a 40/20. He kicks it out on the full by plenty
Starling with a knock on
Cotric went up to take the bomb. No one challenged him, he tried to tap it back but he just taps it into touch.
Pompey pushed into touch.
SCRUM RAIDERS - Vailea fumbles the ball in the play the ball in the first play after the scrum.
SCRUM WARRIORS - Young drops the ball in a heavy tackle close to his own line.
PENALTY RAIDERS - BMM obstructs Starling. No try.
Johnson looks to have scored. Ref has gone to the bunker with no try-obstruction.
Rapana goes up to field the bomb and loses the ball. The Warriors get it back. 6 again.
Walsh from in front converts.
Asi drops a lovely short ball in the line into the hard running Aitken who strolls through the vacant Raiders defence and he scores under the posts
SCRUM WARRIORS - Sloppy play the ball by the Raiders.
Play stopped as Egan stays down
Egan makes a break and then loses the ball as he collides with Rapana
SCRUM RAIDERS - Warriors lose the ball in a solid tackle
PENALTY WARRIORS - BMM throws an elbow at the head of Tapine as he is struggling to get out of the tackle which sparked the whole saga. Tapine is on report for putting his hand on BMM's face.
BMM on the field and starts having a collar grabbing exchange with Tapine. Play stopped.
PENALTY WARRIORS - Raiders with an early kick is allowed to bounce and it bounces hard back towards the Raiders line. The Raiders clean up but they are opffside as they were all in front of the kicker.
SCRUM WARRIORS - on halfway
SCRUM RAIDERS - Forward pass by the Warriors.
SCRUM WARRIORS - 10m inside the Raiders half
Johnson with a horrible pass that was horribly knocked on by Savage.
PENALTY WARRIORS - Before they could start the set the Raiders got pinged again for getting mouthy.
PENALTY WARRIORS - Raiders offside
SCRUM RAIDERS - Sironen with a fumble playing the ball.
PENALTY RAIDERS - Lodge very lucky
Play stopped as CHN is knocked out after Lodge, hitting up, hit CHN in the face with his cocked forearm
SCRUM WARRIORS - 10m from their own line.
Asi had Schneider lined up since last Thursday there. Boom! Schneider loses the ball.
It's a slop-a-thon out there.
And Katoa with a knock on.
Play stopped as Sironen gets attention
And Wighton loses the ball.
SCRUM WARRIORS - And Afoa drops the ball, 10m inside the Raiders half.
PENALTY WARRIORS - Walsh with a lovely pick up of the grubbered ball but then gets high with sloppy tackle efforts.
SCRUM WARRIORS - On halfway. Warriors kick long off the back of the scrum. but Rapana cleans up
Warriors on the attack aaaaaaaaaaaaand they throw a forward pass
Schneider converts perfectly from out wide
Warriors defence looked like they were told not to tackle Wighton. He fended, then bumped then scored on a straight run through woeful edge defence
SCRUM RAIDERS - Katoa knocks on
Walshg converts
Asi chips over the top, Rapana's feet had a brain fart and he slipped as he tried to turn and run. Vailea gets a nice bounce and scores untouched.
Raiders with an offload-athon today
Schneider converts from almost in front.
Second phase play by the Raiders results in Young getting the ball in space, he stepped inside the cover defence and strolled through the huge gap to score besides the posts.
SET RESTART RAIDERS
From the restart AFB drops the ball
Walsh's sideline conversion is almost as beautiful as his eyes.
From the Rapana brain fart, Warriors send the ball left where Aitken gets a good ball to Pompey and he scores in the corner.
Rapana fields the bomb, throws a long ball to Cotric, which bounces and Cotric knocks it on. The Warriors clean up.
SCRUM WARRIORS - 10m from their own line.
Tapine with a hit up and offload to Elliott, who just can't quite hold onto the ball and a try goes begging.
Johnson with a lovely pass to the Fox Sports boom mic operator, sadly though, he had his hands full of boom mic.
Warriors find touch 10m inside the Raiders half
PENALTY WARRIORS - Wighton penalised and on report for lifting Walsh over the horizontal before they dumped him on his back.
Walsh passes to Timoko who ran up too far early. He taps it back and the Raiders get possession.
Schneider in front lands a penalty goal.
PENALTY RAIDERS - Elliott at dummy half ran to the line, dummied and then kept on running before getting hit a bit high near the line.
PENALTY RAIDERS - Lodge with a high tackle.
Play stopped, presumably just to give the whistle a rest.
Rapana with a charge from dummy half on the last and he is easily contained. What a wasted opportunity that was.
PENALTY RAIDERS - First tackle after the previous penalty and the Warriors conceded another.
PENALTY RAIDERS - Warriors challenge failed and then they got penalised. No idea why.
SCRUM RAIDERS - Followed by the Warriors trademark 'losing the ball early in the set in good field position' play. Warriors challenge.
PENALTY WARRIORS - Raiders with their trademark 'good kick and chase then conceded a penalty' play. Warriors start the set on halfway.
Raiders forwards collecting plenty of Post Contact metres
Schneider from near the left sideline nails the goal
Raiders with a soft try on the left side, two passes off the ruck where Wighton runs to the line and links with Timoko who strolls through a very weak tackle effort and he scores.
SET RESTART RAIDERS
PENALTY RAIDERS - They find touch 20m shy of halfway
PENALTY WARRIORS - Raiders with hands all over the ball in the ruck. Warriors find touch 15m shy of halfway
Savage very nearly with a line break on his kick return
SCRUM RAIDERS - Bunker rules that the Warriors player has knocked it on into Schneider.
Egan with a half break and pass-looking thing which surprised everybody. The ball hit Schneider and the ref ruled knock on by Canberra. Raiders challenge.
Raiders kick off
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Chris Butler
Touch Judges: Nick Morel, Mark Bohan
Video Referee: Steve Chiddy
WARRIORS (21)
Tries: Adam Pompey, Viliami Vailea, Euan Aitken
Field Goals: Shaun Johnson (1/1)
Conversions: Reece Walsh (3/3)
Penalty Goals: Reece Walsh (1/1)
CANBERRA RAIDERS (20)
Tries: Matthew Timoko, Hudson Young, Jack Wighton
Conversions: Brad Schneider (3/3)
Penalty Goals: Brad Schneider (1/1)