Match Centre

Challenge successful. No scrum for the Raiders. SCRUM STORM

SCRUM RAIDERS - Raiders push in the last scrum, causes a knock on. Storm challenging

SCRUM STORM - on halfway

Timoko gets a pass but he forgets to move his arms up to catch the ball.

Players are now gathering closely to share body warmth as it is very cold and wet out there tonight

Play 1 tackle and then Rapana is ordered off the field for an HIA

Rapana is down after Katoa accidentally hit's him in the side of the head while trying to bat back a kick

NAS with a 1-on-1 strip and he reverses his error

NAS drops the ball close to halfway

SCRUM RAIDERS - 10m from their own line.

Wishart makes a break then grubbers ahead for Coates, who dives to score the try but he didn't force it. Worse still for Coates, he injured his leg in the process and is limping off the field.

Set Restart Storm

Mariota went into a boot-loop after going in to make a tackle around the hips and got it wrong

Set Restart Raiders - and they kick on the first tackle and Hughes cleans up near the Storm line

SCRUM RAIDERS - Sualauvi Faalogo fumbles and Rapana smashes him

PENALTY STORM - They'll have a shot at goal

SCRUM STORM - Another unforced error by the Raiders, 20m from their own line

Hughes rushes up, grubbers, Rapana makes a three course meal of it in the Raiders in-goal and Warbrick plants the ball down for a try - Bunker has a look and a finds a Storm knock-on in the lead-up

Set restart Raiders

PENALTY RAIDERS - Wishart bumps Strange over after the Raiders half passed the ball.

Martin comes on, gets his head in the wrong spot when tackling low and has to come off for an HIA

Raiders do nothing on the last, hand over

SCRUM RAIDERS - 12m inside the Storm half

Set Restart Storm - inside the Raiders 10

SCRUM STORM - 10m from the Raiders line

SCRUM STORM - a 1-on-1 strip by Whitehead goes forward

PENALTY STORM - Howarth fumbled a pass and then got crunched by Hopoate's shoulder

SCRUM STORM - Raiders with another turnover

Second half starts with Whitehead being put on report before play resumes. (For a hip drop tackle at the end of the first half)

And then the Storm just lose the ball for .... reasons?

SCRUM STORM - Weekes with another dropsy doo

Play stopped as Blore gets folded. Trainer is hoping a splash of water will fix what ails him

Savage drops the bomb near his line and Anderson cleans up

SCRUM STORM - 10m from the Storm line

Weekes spills it close to the Storm line

PENALTY RAIDERS - Inside the Storm half.

Savage loses the ball and the Storm have a full set inside the Raiders half

Nice run back upfield by the Raiders, makes 35m and get to halfway on the 2nd tackle.

Set Restart Storm

PENALTY STORM - 10m from the Raiders line

Sualauvi Faalogo dives for the corner but loses the ball, thanks to some great defence by Hopoate. Ref going to the bunker and it appears we're looking at a high tackle in the lead up

Storm challenging. The Bunker agrees. Cam Smith's memory will never die ;-)

Another stop due to another Raider with a cut.

Twice in two Storm sets they've kicked to the left side and both sides have no clue whats going on

Game resumes after Starling books an appointment with a local seamstress to repair his busted melon at halftime. They've fixed his cut the same way i fix a hole in my boot

He'll be fine, sticky tape for the win!

Play stopped so that Starling can get his face welded back together after he copped a stray boot after falling off a tackle

Set restart Storm - inside the Raiders half now

And he didn't score

Andreson puts in a chip and chase and claims he scored. The Bunker will decide

Great run by Sualauvi Faalogo, obviously a skill he learnt from trying to catch the 529 bus

PENALTY STORM - Smithies just pushes Hughes over because brain snap

Savage catches this cross field kick beautifully

Young with a vital 1 on 1 strip 5m from the Raiders line. Brave human to strip in this cold.

Bomb goes up from the Storm and Weekes looked as uncomfortable as all of the fans in attendance braving this miserable weather, and he drops it

Raiders with a short-side run but the last pass hits Rapana's shin

Set Restart Raiders - Just shy of halfway

PENALTY RAIDERS - Wishart running back in field behind his team mates

Set restart Storm

SCRUM STORM - The Raiders spill the ball on the third tackle, 15m shy of halfway

Melbourne get the local derby underway. Yeah, I'm calling it a local derby now!