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Set restart for the Roosters

PENALTY ROOSTERS - Roosters with a grubber from the back of the scrum and Edwards shields it over the dead ball line. But the Panthers are penalised

SCRUM ROOSTERS - Tedesco attempts a Hail Mary offload. Ref rules that it was a Panthers knock on after the fact. Penrith challenges and fails. Roosters get a fresh set on the Panthers line.

Roosters with a knock on 1m from the Panthers line.

Roosters with a short restart and they get the ball back

PENALTY PANTHERS - Here's the first ever penalty awarded because a player was struck in the hair with a squirt of water from a water bottle.

Meanwhile, JWH is laughing like a madman

Leniu is INCENSED. He wants to perform a Mortal Kombat style fatality on JWH

There's a challenge. And then JWH starts some rubbish and an all in scuffle happens

SCRUM PANTHERS - Yet another Roosters play-the-ball that is botched.

Leota this time coming off for an HIA

Play stopped again. JWH cracking open more skulls than Cactus Jack

Set restart Panthers, 25m from the Roosters line

Martin leaves for an HIA

Play resumed for one tackle, then stopped again as Martin throws his entire soul into a hit on JWH and ends up spilling some blood

Salmon gets fish slapped in a heavy tackle. Yeah I know it was a horrible attempt at comedy

SCRUM PANTHERS - Roosters with a forward pass as they were looking threatening out wide, 10m from halfway

PENALTY ROOSTERS - They get a full set starting on halfway

SCRUM PANTHERS - Another sloppy play the ball by the Roosters

Sorensen with another big run after busting through the line, but he has no support and is brought down, 20m from the Roosters line

PENALTY PANTHERS - Roosters offside and the Panthers will find touch 10m inside the Roosters half

Yeo a bit gingerly running back into the line, but he looks like he'll run it out.

SCRUM PANTHERS - And Lodge with a good run follows up with a knock on.

Panthers get the second half underway

and the Roosters cannot break through.

SCRUM ROOSTERS - an offload by Hutchison is knocked down and forward by Cogger, 5m from the Panthers line.

Roosters get one last chance before halftime. a full set on the Panthers line

Sorensen makes a break down the left side in the first set after the restart, finds Edwards in support, who then throws a pass for an inside man, but the pass is intercepted.

SCRUM PANTHERS - Lodge with a bad play the ball and the Roosters let another chance go

Set Restart Roosters

PENALTY ROOSTERS - Offside by the Panthers. Roosters 10m from the Panthers line

SCRUM ROOSTERS - 20m from their own line

2nd tackle and Leniu botches the play the ball and the Roosters survive

PENALTY PANTHERS - Crusher tackle. Panthers 30m from the Roosters line and with a full set

Pauga looks to have picked up an injury in a tackle.

Again the Roosters fail to build pressure at the end of their set. They are playing with a hint of panic

PENALTY ROOSTERS - Roosters get a relieving penalty on their 20m line. They'll start this set 5m from halfway

Dropped ball by Lodge, fresh on the field and the Panthers on the attack

Plenty of second phase play and offloads from both sides.

The game is going end to end and some flukey stuff is almost sticking, distracting everyone from the poor execution taking place at the end of sets.

Penrith then returns serve with a sloppy end to set of their own.

Allan drops the ball in another strong Panthers tackle 7m on the Roosters side of halfway

Roosters with an atrocious end to that set

Tedesco grubbers into the Panthers ingoal, Edwards cleans up and tries to run across his ingoal to find a way out, but he's eventually brought down in goal. Panthers drop out.

Set restart Roosters - 10m from the Panthers line

Set Restart Roosters - They get a full set 35m from the Panthers line

Set restart Panthers, 10m from the Roosters line

Last tackle and Kenny puts in a grubber which was never going to produce anything, and the Roosters have managed to knock it on, in their own ingoal. Roosters drop out

Set Restart Panthers on the 4th tackle. Now they have a full set 25m from the Roosters line

Panthers kick is easily diffused by Hutchison

SCRUM PANTHERS - JWH loses the ball in a strong tackle by Martin and they go back on the attack.

PENALTY ROOSTERS - Yeo found to have committed double movement. No try

And now the bunker are having a look....

Yeo spots a gap back in the middle, makes a beeline for the line and then gets down low and dives as the defence arrives and he just makes it to the line.

PENALTY PANTHERS - Penrith with the first attacking set of the game

Roosters get us underway