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Warriors 0 Roosters 14
Roosters - Butcher & Tupouniua tries; Suaalii penalty & 2 conversions
Second half
40th minute - Hutchison breaks a tackle and reaches halfway. Lodge skips a few metres and Keary kicks to touch to end the game.
Disappointing result for the Warriors, who are held scoreless for the first time this season.
39th minute - Warriors still trying to break out of their half, but the rain is bucketing down. Johnson's long kick along the ground is returned by Paulo.
38th minute - Manu crosses halfway and Tedesco looks for a way through the defence. He kicks on the last, but DWZ is there to cover.
37th minute - Lodge crosses halfway for the Roosters and Manu puts a kick in the air to DWZ, who is safe. Johnson kicks long from his 20 and Tedesco has to run back.
36th minute - Fonua-Blake brings the ball back from the dropout, but Sifakula spills the ball in the tackle. Egan challenges and replays show Butcher's foot interferes with the ball, but not successful.
Roosters try to break out of their half...
35th minute - Warriors run on the last and DWZ kicks to goal, where Tedesco escorts it dead for a dropout.
34th minute - Keary kicks to DWZ, who takes it on his 30. Montoya crosses halfway on the second tackle.
33rd minute - Warriors pour onto attack and go left, where Vailea is brought down. Walker kicks to the posts, where DWZ gathers, but he's tackled and his offload is tidied up by the Roosters.
32nd minute - Smith dummies from dummy half and sends Crichton on a run. Smith is caught at dummy half and Keary's kick is blocked by Niukore, who doesn't have the toe to race away.
31st minute - Afoa spills a pass, so Roosters have a scrum on the Warriors 30.
30th minute - Collins crosses halfway and Smith carries on the momentum, but Manu spills the ball in the tackle. He immediately wants a challenge, but he's unsuccessful.
Warriors have a scrum in their own half and try to break out. Ale offloads to Fonua-Blake, who is back out there after a brief spell.
29th minute - Walker crosses halfway and then puts up a high bomb, but Tedesco is equal to the task.
28th minute - Johnson's high kick is spilled backwards, but the Roosters have it covered.
Keary kicks from his half and DWZ covers the bounce.
27th minute - Warriors shift left, where Vailea is full of running. They shift right and Pompey crosses halfway.
26th minute - Fonua-Blake finally leaves the game, as Johnson kicks long to Suaalii. Butcher reaches halfway and Keary kicks to touch to milk the clock.
25th minute - Smith kicks from his 40 and the bounce beats DWZ. Montoya stays down in the tackle, holding his head.
24th minute - Johnson kicks along the ground to Allan and he is safe.
23rd minute - Keary kicks high to DWZ and Warriors get a clearing penalty. Johnson finds touch on the 30 and Ford crosses halfway on the third tackle.
22nd minute - Warriors kick off and Collins brings it back. Smith runs from dummy half...
20th minute - TRY to Tupouniua
Smith darts from dummy half, and then puts in a nice grubber kick behind the defence for the his second-rower to run onto and score. Suaalii converts, ROO 14-0
19th minute - Walker offloads to Egan, who finds Pompey on his shoulder, but he loses the ball and more pressure on the Warriors.
Officials are reviewing a possible shoulder charge on Montoya, but it's ruled OK.
18th minute - Roosters go right, but Keary surrenders to the tackle. Manu spots a gap and heads to the posts, but Crichton dies with the ball on the last tackle.
17th minute - Vailea loses the ball in a tackle and Roosters will have the ball in Warriors half.
16th minute - Roosters cross halfway on the second tackle. ON the last tackle, Tedesco drops the ball and the Warriors come away with it.
15th minute - Walker kicks to the posts, but Manu meets it and falls in the field of play. Roosters get a clearing penalty.
14th minute - Warriors get a penalty on the last tackle and Egan takes a quick tap. He catches the Roosters napping, but stays down in the tackle.
Fonua-Blake is still out there and reaches the 10. Vailea storms onto the ball and Ford goes close in the corner.
13th minute - Keary kicks from halfway and DWZ has the catch. Vailea and Kosi have carries, as Pompey crosses halfway.
12th minute - Teenager Sifakula makes his debut for the Warriors off the bench.
Roosters try to break out of their half and Sifakula is among the tackles.
11th minute - From the scrum, Walker runs left, but met by Manu. Curran looks for a way up the middle and Fonua-Blake looks for an offload.
Warriors get another six tackles, Walker puts Ford through a gap, but the ball goes loose in a tackle. Ruled a loose carry.
10th minute - Roosters try to break out of their half, but Baker is rocked in a tackle by Pompey and spills the ball.
Ninth minute - From the scrum, Vailea crosses halfway on the first tackle. Walker takes on the line, but Johnson's kick along the ground is covered.
Eighth minute - Johnson kicks on the run, but Tedesco has it. Crichton crosses halfway, but he loses the ball in the tackle.
Seventh minute - Keary kicks from halfway, but Montoya is well positioned and he runs it back strongly. Sironen crosses halfway.
Sixth minute - Paulo is driven back in a tackle from the scrum.
Fifth minute - Roosters kick only goes 30 metres, so that's the wind. Johnson juggles Walker's pass, but Curran can't take Johnson's pass.
Fourth minute - Vailea loses the ball in a tackle and Roosters are penalised. Egan puts Ford over the tryline, but he can't force it.
Ford runs angle off Johnson, who kicks to the goal, but Allan smothers it for a dropout.
Third minute - DWZ wrestles towards halfway and Fonua-Blake crosses into Roosters half. Johnson's kick is knocked on by Allan and Warriors get the ball back.
Second minute - Butcher crosses halfway and Keary kicks high to Montoya.
First minute - Warriors should have a wind at their backs for the second half. The rain has stopped for now and Roosters kick off...
Ale brings the ball back at the Roosters and Fonua-Blake continues his long stint. Sironen crosses halfway and Johnson kicks high to Allan.
Halftime
40th minute - Fonua-Blake will play the entire half and plays the ball near halfway. Johnson kicks high and Tedesco is safe.
Manu kicks long and Montoya takes the tackle to end the half.
39th minute - Keary crosses halfway and Manu is bouncing off tacklers. Keary kicks high, but DWZ slides in for the catch.
38th minute - Keary kicks high and Suaalii tries to bat the bounce back, but straight to Johnson.
Johnson kicks high to Allan.
37th minute - Vailea has been put on report for his contact on Butcher during that try. Warriors kick off and Paulo brings the ball back.
35th minute - TRY to Butcher
Roosters now deep in Warriors half and Tedesco almost breaks through. On last tackle near the tryline, Butcher has too much strength and eventually forces off Vailea's boot.
Suaalii converts, ROO 8-0
34th minute - Keary runs from dummy half and the marker isn't straight, so Warriors penalised.
33rd minute - Warriors have the ball deep in their half, Egan crosses halfway from dummy half and Johnson kicks high to Tedesco.
32nd minute - Johnson kicks to goal and it bounces dead, so seven-tackle set for the Roosters.
Tedesco crosses halfway, Manu throws a long pass to Paulo, who gets a tackle at the same time and ends up in touch.
31st minute - Keary kicks early and Kosi controls the bounce in his own half. DWZ crosses halfway and Fonua-Blake offloads.
30th minute - Johnson kicks to the goal-line and Suaalii is caught quickly by the chasing defence.
29th minute - Dropout goes over halfway, but Niukore brings it back. Warriors putting on the pressure.
Johnson runs on the last, but his pass bounces off a teammate and is toed back down field by the Roosters. Eventually, Curran falls on the ball in his own half.
28th minute - Late offload from Ford almost puts Walker over and Ford chases a Johnson kick that bounces dead. Warriors dispute that the ball went dead off them and replays show Manu lunged with his foot, so Roosters dropout.
27th minute - From the scrum, Vailea heads towards the posts. Johnson fires a pass right and DWZ does well to handle it.
26th minute - Warriors looking for a way through and Walker dummies. Johnson kicks to goal and the ball is knocked on by the Roosters.
25th minute - Egan Butcher spills the ball on the Roosters 10, so Warriors are in prime position again.
24th minute - Johnson almost puts Curran spinning through to the tryline, but the ball goes astray on the next tackle, when Niukore can't handle Johnson's pass.
23rd minute - Ford crosses halfway for the Warriors, who get a set restart in attacking position.
22nd minute - Lodge is dragged down short of halfway, but Collins loses the ball forward. Egan also spills the ball, so Warriors have a scrum.
21st minute - Fonua-Blake crosses halfway and Warriors have a set restart in Roosters territory. Niukore runs a hard line off Johnson, who kicks to goal, where DWZ chases hard, but can't quite score.
20th minute - Keary kicks high towards the posts, but Vailea climbs to claim it and stay in the field of play. Butcher is penalised for a crusher tackle on Walker.
19th minute - Roosters bring the dropout back, but Suaalii is well covered.
18th minute - Roosters rumble back into Warriors territory. They shift left, but can't find a way through.
Manu kicks to goal, but it's batted dead.
17th minute - Johnson kicks from his 20 and can't quite find touch, but DWZ chases hard and pressures Tedesco. Walker penalised in the play-the-ball though.
16th minute - Collins crosses halfway for the Roosters on a seven-tackle set. Suaalii threatens to bus through, but Kosi has him.
Paulo kicks ahead to the corner and DWZ somehow stays in play.
15th minute - Curran runs an inside line off Johnson and almost breaks through. Johnson kicks along the ground and the ball is deflected up for Pompey, who can't quite gather it to score.
14th minute - Johnson kicks to the goal and Allan is trapped behind the line for a dropout. The kick clears halfway, but DWZ brings it back hard.
13th minute - Warriors restart over halfway and Niukore runs hard, but stays down. He seems good to go, but there may be a head check coming.
12th minute - Montoya runs hard off the scrum and Warriors have a penalty in the tackle.
11th minute - Lodge reaches halfway and offloads to Tedesco, but Suaalii spills the ball in a tackle from Afoa.
10th minute - Roosters have the Warriors pinned deep and Johnson kicks along the ground to Suaalii.
Ninth minute - Tedesco offloads, but it's touched by a Warriors player. Butler sees a knockon by the Roosters, so Warriors are off the hook for now.
Eighth minute - Niukore reaches halfway and Johnson kicks high to Tedesco, who is safe.
Keary kicks from the 40 and that's a 40-20. Warriors back on their heels.
Seventh minute - DWZ draws a penalty from Radley and Johnson finds touch near the Warriors 30. Roosters monster Ford and Afoa, as Warriors actually lose ground.
Sixth minute - Roosters waste no time taking the kickoff to halfway, with Lodge at the forefront. Keary bombs to Montoya, whose hands are safer this time.
Fifth minute - PENALTY to Suaalii
The youngster makes no mistake from straight in front, ROO 2-0
Fourth minute - Johnson tries a short dropout, but it's too short, so Roosters have a penalty and will take the kick at goal.
Third minute - Set restart for the Roosters... Keary kicks to goal, but Kosi bats it dead.
Second minute - Montoya spills the ball in a tackle and Roosters will have prime position on the Warriors 20.
First minute - Chris Butler is the referee and Pompey kicks off for the Warriors, who have the first-half wind. Smith is already over halfway and Lodge carves a few more metres, before Keary bombs to DWZ, who catches safely.
3:58pm - More late changes to the Warriors, with Niukore and Fonua-Blake swapping positions in the defensive line, and debutant Demitric Sifakula replacing Going on the interchange.
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Kia ora, good afternoon and welcome to Newshub's live coverage of the NRL clash between NZ Warriors and Sydney Roosters at Auckland's Mt Smart Stadium.
Both teams have a short five-day turnaround from their traditional Anzac Day fixtures against Melbourne Storm and St George Dragons respectively, with the Warriors counting a particularly high injury toll from their defeat.
With fullback Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad undergoing concussion protocols, replacement Taine Tuaupiki has also been a late withdrawal from today's starting line-up, with a leg injury sustained in the captain's run.
Coach Andrew Webster has reshuffled his backline, inject Viliami Vailea at centre, and moving Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, Marcelo Montoya and Adam Pompey out one spot.
Vailea's promotion from the bench provides an opportunity for Kalani Going - one of Northland rugby's famous Going family - to make his Warriors debut, after playing age group and reserves footy with Canberra Raiders.
The Warriors could be worse off, with half Dylan Walker somehow surviving a judiciary heading on a dangerous contact that looked bad at the time.
The Roosters have also been forced into a change from their named line-up, with Kiwi enforcer Jared Waerea-Hargreaves scratched and replaced by former Warriors hardman Matt Lodge.
Weather in Auckland for the match is horrible, with heavy rain likely to dictate tactics.
Join us at 4pm for kickoff.
TAB Odds: Roosters $1.45, Warriors $2.65
Warriors: 2-Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, 3-Marcelo Montoya, 4-Adam Pompey, 17-Viliami Vailea, 5-Ed Kosi, 6-Dylan Walker, 7-Shaun Johnson, 8-Addin Fonua-Blake, 9-Wayde Egan, 10-Bunty Afoa, 11-Jackson Ford, 12-Marata Niukore, 13-Josh Curran
Interchange: 14-Freddy Lussick, 15-Bayley Sironen, 16-Tom Ale, 22-Kalaini Going
Roosters: 1-James Tedesco, 2-Corey Allan, 3-Joseph Suaalii, 4-Paul Momirovski, 5-Jaxson Paulo, 6-Joseph Manu, 7-Luke Keary, 8-Lindsay Collins, 9-Brandon Smith, 17-Matt Lodge, 11-Egan Butcher, 12-Nat Butcher, 13-Victor Radley
Interchange: 14-Drew Hutchison, 15-Angus Crichton, 16-Sitili Tupouniua, 18-Fletcher Baker
Warriors coach puzzled over controversial moment in Anzac Day defeat
Reece Labuschagne
NZ Warriors coach Andrew Webster was so confident Dylan Walker's tackle on Melbourne Storm's Eliesa Katoa was fine, he had already started planning for the next play.
Walker was sent to the sin-bin for a head-slam tackle on Katoa right before halftime in the Warriors' 30-22 Anzac Day defeat to the Storm.
While Webster's main concern will be the growing injury toll, he admits he was left puzzled by the call to place Walker on report.
"My reaction was Dylan was taking him to the ground and unfortunately, his head slammed and Dylan came over the top," he said. "Because they wanted to check it, I looked and thought 'he's sweet'.
"I wanted to have a good look at it, and watched the replay and thought 'awesome'. Then I started turning to talk about the next part to the staff and when I turned around, they gave him 10 [in the bin].
"I just initially thought it was a really good tackle driving him to the ground, I didn't see any arm around his head.
"I don't know what you guys think, but I didn't see him slamming his head to the ground, I didn't see that. Trust me, when you're in the box, you're probably not seeing things clearly, because you're a bit biased, but I thought Dylan was fine."
Walker now faces a minimum two-week suspension for the dangerous contract, leaving Webster with a decision to make over who partners Shaun Johnson in the halves.
Another contentious call came during the Storm's go-ahead score, with fullback Nick Meaney grabbing his second try. Meaney pounced on the loose ball from Jahrome Hughes' kick, after two Warriors players collided to claim possession.
Replays suggested Reimis Smith may have got a hand to the ball and knocked it forward, as he challenged the Warriors in the air.
Webster wouldn't be drawn into any further criticism of the officiating and would rather his team look at themselves first.
"I'm skating on thin ice," he said. "I wish it wasn't a try, but it was and I'll take the call - the call is what it is.
"They're the moments we have to be in charge of. Two players collide, there's a loose ball on the ground and we're not there to clean it up, they are.
"That's us saying to ourselves 'let's not make excuses'. That's what the players are coming to me in the changing room saying.
"It's all well and good, things might not have gone your way at times, but we've got to own that bit.
"Why weren't we on the loose ball and why were we colliding in the air? Then, you take it out of the referee's hand, if that's the case.
"I'm not critical of the decision, I don't know. I'm just saying we have to own it."
