PENALTY WARRIORS - Raiders with a short kick off that doesn't go 10m. Warriors have 20 seconds left.
Johnson converts
Johnson takes a crazy intercept as the Raiders try to spread the ball from the kick off across their own line. He plucks it out of the air, 3m from the Raiders line and strolled in to score.
Croker adds another goal to his tally
Papali'i barges over from close range
Set Restart Raiders
PENALTY RAIDERS - 20m from the Warriors line.
PENALTY RAIDERS - Rapana comes off for an HIA. Raiders find touch 18m shy of halfway
Play stopped after Niukore leads with his shoulder and hits Rapana in the cheek. Niukore binned.
SCRUM WARRIORS - 20m from the Raiders line
SCRUM RAIDERS - Warriors with a knock on. They challenge. Its a knock on. Raiders start their set 10m from their own line
Pompey from in front, adds the extras.
Egan from dummy half, dummies and then strolls over to score under the posts.
Set Restart Warriors 10m from the Raiders line
Niukore held up over the line from a crash ball play.
Set Restart Warriors - 35m from the Raiders line
Pompey converts from in front.
Play stopped as Johnson stayed down after throwing his pass and has a bloodied nose, after an accidental clash with Whitehead. He's coming off the field now. No chance he'll be back.
Johnson throws a stunning ball to Metcalf and he flies into a gap and scores under the posts.
Fogarty kicks that ball so hard, it's ended up in a place of ill-repute in Fyshwick
PENALTY WARRIORS - Tapine with a lifting motion in the tackle, just inside the Raiders half. Warriors find touch 30m from the Raiders line
Johnson throws it over from in front.
Harris at second receiver, 10m from the Raiders line, shapes to pass out the back, but hits the lead runner Ale instead with a lovely ball and Ale busts through the middle defence to barge over under the posts.
Metcalf makes a break and picks up 40m
SCRUM WARRIORS - Loose carry by Kris and the Warriors start their set 10m from their own line
PENALTY RAIDERS - CNK drops a tough pass close the Raiders line. Then Egan gives away a penalty to let the Raiders right off the hook. Raiders start their set 22m shy of halfway
Johnson puts up a bomb and Hopoate drops it cold. Warriors regather and they get a full set 30m from the Raiders line.
Johnson from out wide, adds the extras.
Warriors go right to Johnson at second receiver, who drifts right, then links with Nicoll-Klokstad who drifts right, skips out of the tackle by Croker and scores a well-earnt try.
Croker with a charge down and the Warriors get the ball back. 6 again 10m from the Raiders line
PENALTY WARRIORS - They find touch 2m inside the Raiders half
SCRUM RAIDERS - AFB fumbles the ball at dummy half, near halfway. It's been a pretty even half thus far with nothing of note happening, hence why nothing was noted I guess.
Raiders get the final 40 underway
Fogarty's kick at the end of the Raiders set falls millimetres inside the sideline. CNK let it bounce hoping it was going out on the full.
Croker takes the gift penalty goal from in front
PENALTY RAIDERS - DWZ Penalised for that saga.
Horsburgh running back after making a tackle and DWZ bumps into him, swats his face and that turned on Corey's Ranga Rage. But nothing happened other than a scuffle.
Johnson from the right sideline nails the conversion
The Warriors with an impressive try to DWZ! Johnson kicks to the right wing where Watene-Zelezniak leaps from the field of play, catches the ball over the sideline and grounds it while still in the air for a magnificent try.
PENALTY WARRIORS - The Warriors are now in the Raiders half. The last time the Warriors were at this end of the field, the grass in the Raiders in-goal was an inch shorter.
PENALTY WARRIORS - DWZ from the back of the scrum is hit high by Wighton.On report. Warriors find touch 20m shy of halfway
SCRUM WARRIORS - 10m from their own line
Warriors turns the ball over shortly after getting it and the Raiders turn on the attack through a solid run by Croker
Off to the bunker, this is a mess. A loose ball on the ground, 20 sets of hands trying to plant the ball for a try/drop out. Turns out the Raiders knocked on while trying to score a try
Wighton throws a horrible pass to Croker's knees, who also has a defender on top of him and Croker drops it, 10m from the Warriors line.
Set Restart Raiders 15m from the Warriors line
PENALTY RAIDERS - Play stopped after Rapana, Barnett and Ford have a meeting of the minds. Ford stayed down briefly, Rapana looks confused, but coming off for an HIA and possibly with a sore jaw and Barnett gets 10 in the bin.
Croker converts, bringing up 200 points by him against the Warriors.
Raiders finally convert their dominance into points, with Luck (not Michael), getting the try assist. Wighton close to the Warriors line, grubbered, the ball ricocheted off a Warriors player, the ball pops up and Wighton catches it cleanly and strolls across for a try under the posts.
Warriors starting to work their way into this game.
Raiders dominating this match in every department, but cannot turn it into points
SCRUM RAIDERS - 30m from the Warriors line. Wighton with a lazy attempt to catch a pass behind him and he loses it forward. Then the Warriors knock on in the next tackle.
Set restart Raiders 5m past halfway
Great defensive set by the Raiders, forced the Warriors to kick from within their own 30m
Fogarty rifles a grubber low and Shaun Johnson takes it at point blanc range remarkably
Fogarty puts up a bomb which grazes the fingernail of Montoya. The ball bounces into Timoko's hands, where he is immediately tackled on the Warriors line and he falls millimetres shy of the line and is ultimately denied a try. Canberra get a full set on the Warriors line
Off to the bunker to look at a possible try to Timoko
Warriors struggling to get into this game. Their kick at the end of their set goes dead. 20m restart for the Raiders.
Play breaks down when the Raiders send the ball left which hits Croker a bit too hard and it bounces off his chest and goes forward.
set restart Raiders 10m from the Warriors line
Fogarty with a nice kick that produces another drop out
Good run by Croker makes a good 25 metres
Solid opening set by both sides. The Raiders first set ends with a millimetre perfect kick and an equally perfectly timed tackle to get CNK tackled back into his own ingoal area, by millimetres again. Warriors drop out.
Warriors kick off
6th vs 7th here. Overall head-to-head record for all past 6th v 7th games - Played 213, 6th won 121, 7th won 87, Draws 5
In case you didn't know, Jarrod Croker plays his 300th game tonight. He's got good form in his milestone games, winning his 100th and 200th game. He becomes the 48th player to reach 300 NRL games. He is also one of just 5 players to have scored 100+ tries and 500+ goals. He is the third highest point scorer in the games history, 102 points behind the second placed Hazem El Masri and 470 points behind all-time leader Cameron Smith.
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Grant Atkins
Touch Judges: Drew Oultram, David Munro
Video Referee: Kasey Badger
CANBERRA RAIDERS (14)
Tries: Jack Wighton, Josh Papali'i
Conversions: Jarrod Croker (2/2)
Penalty Goals: Jarrod Croker (1/1)
WARRIORS (36)
Tries: Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, Shaun Johnson, Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad, Tom Ale, Luke Metcalf, Wayde Egan
Conversions: Shaun Johnson (4/4), Adam Pompey (2/2)