Post Match 2025 Finals Week 1 -Warriors vs Penrith [Round 28, 2025]

Warriors vs Panthers
Warriors

Warriors

8 - 24
● LIVE
80:00

Go Media Stadium

13 Sep 2025

Panthers

Panthers

Match Statistics

Warriors Panthers
1 Tries 4
2 / 2 Conversions 4 / 4
0/0 Field Goals 0/0
0/0 2P Field Goals 0/0
1 Try Assists 3
Warriors Panthers
44% Possession 56%
29/7 Complete/Incomplete Sets 38/3
35 Time in Opp Half 65
1157m Metres Gained 1559m
4 Line Breaks 4
5 Offloads 9
20/595m Kicks/Metres 25/723m
Warriors Panthers
13 Errors 8
5 Penalties Conceded 8
1 Set Restarts 4
57 Missed Tackles 34

Player Statistics

Warriors Players
# Player T Pts TA LB TB Off Tkl MT IT Pos DH K KM M E P
1 C. Nicoll-Klokstad 0 0 1 0 4 0 13 2 0 35 0 0 0m 156m 1 0
2 D. Watene-Zelezniak 0 0 0 0 3 0 6 1 1 13 0 0 0m 97m 0 0
3 A. Pompey 0 0 0 0 2 0 8 4 0 10 0 0 0m 63m 2 0
11 L. Halasima 1 4 0 2 6 0 15 3 0 18 1 0 0m 104m 2 0
5 R. Tuivasa-Sheck 0 0 0 0 3 1 3 2 2 22 0 0 0m 140m 0 1
6 C. Harris-Tavita 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 5 0 44 1 13 382m 27m 2 0
7 T. Boyd 0 4 0 1 2 0 10 3 1 35 0 5 184m 66m 2 0
8 J. Fisher-Harris 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 2 1 11 0 0 0m 73m 1 0
9 W. Egan 0 0 0 0 0 1 36 8 1 94 2 1 3m 19m 1 0
10 J. Ford 0 0 0 0 0 0 52 9 1 12 0 0 0m 73m 0 3
4 K. Capewell 0 0 0 0 4 0 38 7 1 6 0 0 0m 45m 0 0
12 M. Niukore 0 0 0 1 5 1 31 3 0 8 0 0 0m 68m 0 0
13 E. Clark 0 0 0 0 3 0 24 1 0 21 0 0 0m 98m 0 0
14 T. Martin 0 0 0 0 0 1 31 2 1 22 0 1 26m 42m 2 0
16 D. Vaimauga 0 0 0 0 0 1 30 1 0 7 0 0 0m 37m 0 1
17 T. Stowers-Smith 0 0 0 0 2 0 12 4 0 4 0 0 0m 39m 0 0
20 S. Healey 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 2 14 1 0 0m 10m 0 0
Panthers Players
# Player T Pts TA LB TB Off Tkl MT IT Pos DH K KM M E P
1 D. Edwards 0 4 0 1 5 0 5 1 0 25 1 0 0m 136m 2 1
2 P. Alamoti 0 0 0 1 8 0 4 0 1 25 0 0 0m 139m 3 0
3 I. Tago 0 0 0 0 7 1 8 1 0 24 4 0 0m 140m 1 1
4 C. McLean 1 4 0 0 2 0 15 2 1 15 2 0 0m 84m 1 1
5 B. To'o 1 4 0 0 7 1 2 1 0 19 0 1 3m 233m 0 0
6 B. Talagi 0 0 1 0 3 0 21 7 0 28 1 2 21m 26m 0 0
7 N. Cleary 0 4 2 0 4 2 8 3 1 62 1 20 664m 52m 0 2
8 M. Leota 0 0 0 0 1 0 22 2 0 10 0 0 0m 83m 0 0
14 B. Schneider 1 4 0 1 3 0 18 1 0 78 2 0 0m 6m 0 1
10 L. Smith 0 0 0 0 3 2 31 1 0 18 0 1 3m 114m 0 0
11 S. Sorensen 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 4 0 11 0 0 0m 44m 1 0
12 L. Martin 0 0 0 0 5 0 32 0 0 16 0 0 0m 100m 0 0
13 I. Yeo 0 0 0 0 1 1 44 1 1 28 0 1 32m 108m 0 1
9 L. Sommerton 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 4 1 63 3 0 0m 17m 0 0
15 L. Henry 0 0 0 0 1 0 14 0 1 10 0 0 0m 88m 0 0
16 I. Papali'i 1 4 0 1 6 1 21 4 1 19 0 0 0m 153m 0 1
17 L. Garner 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 2 0 4 0 0 0m 36m 0 0

Rate the Match

  • A

    Votes: 8 8.2%
  • B

    Votes: 51 52.6%
  • C

    Votes: 34 35.1%
  • F

    Votes: 4 4.1%

  • Total voters
    97

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good season boys. Proud of every one of them. Never gave up against the 4 time premiers.

No matter what people say here, we really did overachieve this year. It would have been nice to have one last hurrah tonight. Nothing would have been sweeter than proving the Aussie dicks on fox wrong tonight. But it wasn't to be. Those last 2 penrith tries were lucky a.f. Those two balls being knocked back by the Penrith players. Bounce of the ball goes the other way and it could have been a different story. Just wasn't our night tonight.

But luck aside, the cold hard truth is we aren't good enough to win this comp yet. Penrith clearly still are. But I believe we'll get there in a few years. We are a club on the up under Webby and we will be back stronger and better next year.

Up the wahs!
 
Honestly I am pretty happy.

I guess realizing that watching the Warriors with your kids in a final is making memories as a family, certainly takes all the sting out of losing.

We really stood up tonight. So proud of them.

How many times did we make them die with the ball on the last in our red Zone???

Kamau te wehi.
 
Our team played there a@$es off.

A forward pass and a dropped ball took us out as they capitalized.

Thanks for getting us here.
What a fight.
Hope we go further with Metcslf and Barney in 26.

Bring on the newbies and rising Warriors.
Plenty to look forward too.

Up The Warriors💙🤍❤️
 
Good effort and intent esp in the first half. Agree with others The Panthers aren’t the goods. They have more strike and caught some streaky luck to put the scoreboard up to that but really they looked slow and disconnected in parts. Whether they win or lose against the Dogs I can’t see them going mich further. Good season from our boys. The fact we all know that through injury and our own general lack of strike and speed that we were never going to progress in the 8. But the foundation is there. So let’s see how the roster shakes up next year!
 
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I'm sad. But I'm glad they played hard, and against all expectations were only 4points behind with 20 odd minutes to go.

Sucks that it blew out a bit, especially with that tinarse try where we could've had them stuck in their in-goal, but I guess we exhausted our luck in the first half of the year.

Well done getting to finals, but feels deflating compared to where we could have been 😪

Next year is our year etc etc
 
good season boys. Proud of every one of them. Never gave up against the 4 time premiers.

No matter what people say here, we really did overachieve this year. It would have been nice to have one last hurrah tonight. Nothing would have been sweeter than proving the Aussie dicks on fox wrong tonight. But it wasn't to be. Those last 2 penrith tries were lucky a.f. Those two balls being knocked back by the Penrith players. Bounce of the ball goes the other way and it could have been a different story. Just wasn't our night tonight.

But luck aside, the cold hard truth is we aren't good enough to win this comp yet. Penrith clearly still are. But I believe we'll get there in a few years. We are a club on the up under Webby and we will be back stronger and better next year.

Up the wahs!
U still reckon Penrith are doing nothing this year?

Id be happy with either them or the Raiders taking out the whole shambozzle.
 
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Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad 1
5.5 (23)
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak 2
4.8 (23)
Adam Pompey 3
Right Centre
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Leka Halasima 11
Left Centre
6.7 (23)
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck 5
6.6 (23)
Chanel Harris-Tavita 6
5.6 (23)
Tanah Boyd 7
Halfback
5.3 (23)
James Fisher-Harris 8
Right Prop Captain
6.6 (23)
Wayde Egan 9
5.5 (23)
Jackson Ford 10
Left Prop
6.3 (23)
Kurt Capewell 4
Right Second Row
6.3 (23)
Marata Niukore 12
Left Second Row
6.1 (23)
Erin Clark 13
7.0 (23)
Te Maire Martin 14
Interchange
6.0 (23)
Sam Healey 20
Interchange
5.3 (23)
Demitric Vaimauga 16
6.0 (23)
Tanner Stowers-Smith 17
5.8 (23)
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