General Warriors Vs Panthers: Spoilers and Match Talk

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Live updates will be in this thread, kick-off in about 10 minutes.

 

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We have great conditions for a football match tonight. It's warm and there's only a slight breeze.

No changes for the Panthers but for the Warriors Micheal Luck moves into the run-on side and Guttenbeil is back to the bench.

 

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Teams for tonight's match:

Warriors:
2. Patrick Ah Van
18. Cooper Vuna
3. Tony Martin
4. Simon Mannering
5. Manu Vatuvei
6. Jerome Ropati
7. Grant Rovelli
8. Ruben Wiki
9. Nathan Fien
10. Steve Price (c)
17. Micheal Luck
12. Louis Anderson
13. Sione Faumuina

Interchange:
11. Awen Guttenbeil
14. George Gatis
15. Sam Rapira
16. Wairangi Koopu

Panthers:
1. Rhys Wesser
2. Michael Gordon
3. Mark O'Halloran
4. Lee Hookey
5. Luke Rooney
6. Preston Campbell
7. Craig Gower
8. Joel Clinton
9. Luke Priddis
10. Craig Stapleton
11. Matthew Cross
12. Tony Puletua (c)
13. Frank Pritchard

Interchange:
14. Frank Puletua
15. Bryan Norrie
16. Matthew Bell
17. Luke Swain.

 

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Very young backline for the Warriors tonight, barring Martin:

Ah Van (18)
Vuna (19)
Martin (27)
Mannering (19)
Vatuvei (20)
Ropati (21)
Rovelli (22)

 

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And we are underway from the boot of Preston Campbell.

 

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2 min: NEWS Warriors on the attack now 10m out from the Panthers line after a mistake from Wesser.

 

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TTTTTTTTTTTRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYY to Warriors, great start here.

 

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4 min: TRY New Zealand Warriors
Vatuevi scores off a cross field bomb from Rovelli. Martin converts.
Warriors 6-0

The old combination, Rovelli and Vatuvei.

 

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6 min: NEWS Ruben Wiki penalised for being off-side at marker. Panthers now have some momentum.

 

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7 min: NEWS Preston Campbell takes an intercept close to the Panthers line, crosses half-way, but has no support. Panthers recieve a penalty.

 

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11 min: NEWS Gower looks for a 40/20 but kicks the ball out on the full. Warriors now have the ball inside the Panthers half.

 

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Panthers get the kick away and the Warriors bring it back.

 

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Warriors kick it long and Penrith bring it back. Ropati slows down the play of the ball, silly penalty, both teams have made stupid errors tonight.

 

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15 minutes gone in the first half.

 

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Panthers on attack.

 

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Error by the Panthers, lucky break for the Warriors and the Panthers almost scored, Warriors bring it back.

 

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Knock on by the Warriors.

 

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Panthers on attack, 20 out.

 

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Try to Puletua, he charges over and its 6-4 to the Warriors, kick to come.

 

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Campbell kicks the conversion and its 6-6, 21 minutes gone in the game.