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Warriors 21 Raiders 20
Warriors - Pompey, Aitken & Vailea tries, Walsh 3 conversions & penalty, Johnson field goal
Raiders - Timoko, Wighton & Young tries, Schneider 3 conversions & penalty
Golden Point
Second minute - Lodge runs towards the posts and Johnson steps away from a would-be chargedown to slot the field goal. Warriors win! WAR 21-20
First minute - Wighton wins the toss and Raiders will receive the ball first.
Walsh kicks off and Horsborough is smothered in a three-man tackle. Starling's pass to Horsborough is called forward and Warriors have prime position.
Fulltime
40th minute - Walsh slots it and golden point looms, 20-20
As the siren goes, Egan throws a loose pass and Asi has to smother it to end regulation time.
38th minute - From the scrum, Johnson is nailed in a tackle, Lodge runs back towards the posts, Asi threatens out left.
Egan manages an offload that no-one is expecting and Lodge is hit high right in front of the posts. Walsh has a kick to draw level...
37th minute - Walsh has to give himself up, as one of teammate gets in the way, but Fonua-Blake makes halfway. Egan finds some space, Johnson kicks towards the posts and it's knocked on in front of the posts by Schneider.
Warriors must score here...
36th minute - Rapana torments the Warriors defence, Starling offloads and Rapana kicks ahead. Timoko chases, but can't catch up with the ball.
35th minute - Asi tries for a 40-20, but puts his kick well into touch on the full.
34th minute - Schnieder puts Wighton into a hole, but Tapine tries an offload on the last tackle and it's spilled by Starling.
33rd minute - Walsh kicks long and Savage charges back towards halfway.
32nd minute - Elliott is wrapped up on the last tackle and Schneider chips to the corner, but Cotric can't gather it.
30th minute - Schnieder kicks high near the sideline, Cotric puts in another kick to the goal-line, but Walsh smothers it.
Raiders drive Vailea over the sideline just a few metres out, so they now have a chance to score.
29th minute - Vailea spills the ball in a play-the-ball to squander another chance.
28th minute - Young is rocked in a tackle by Murchie and loses the ball. Warriors have yet another chance in Raiders half - they're getting fired up here.
27th minute - Johnson is across for what seems a go-ahead try, but replays show Murdoch-Masila impeded a defender, so no try.
26th minute - Warriors cross halfway, with Murdoch-Masila carrying strongly twice. Rapana can't take the high kick and Warriors have another chance here...
24th minute - TRY to Aitken
Fonua-Blake takes the ball forward, Johnson dummies right, props left and when Asi shifts left, he puts Aitken into a gap between two defenders to score. Walsh converts, CAN 20-18
23rd minute - Tapine makes a mistake at the play-the-ball and Warriors will have possession from a scrum in Raiders half.
22nd minute - Warriors get a set restart and Egan cuts the Raiders defence to ribbons, but loses the ball looking for the next pass. Rapana nails him in a tackle and Egan is winded.
21st minute - Warriors making no ground, but Egan finds Katoa charging forward. The kick is charged down and Warriors have another set.
20th minute - Tapine crosses halfway for the Raiders and Wighton kicks ahead, but Savage can't gather cleanly near the corner, as the ball takes another wicked bounce.
19th minute - Murdoch-Masila loses the ball in a tackle and Tapine is the first to let him know about it.
18th minute - Wighton kicks from inside his own 30, but the bounce is kind to the pursuing Raiders. They have the Warriors at their mercy, but the chasers are called offside.
Warriors start their set inside Raiders half. Murdoch-Masila and Tapine square off at the play-the-ball, and replays show Murdoch-Masila throws an elbow in the tackle. Tapine is penalised for a facial.
17th minute - Asi grubbers again and tests Rapana, who barely covers the difficult bounce.
16th minute - From the scrum, Pompey charges onto the ball and crosses halfway.
15th minute - Canberra trying to clear their own half, with Wighton causing all kinds of trouble. Horsborough drops the ball on halfway - this is painful, both ways.
14th minute - From the scrum, Walsh makes a half break, but then floats another long pass that is called forward.
12th minute - Raiders are penalised for offside and then give the ref some chat for another 10 metres. Warriors are already into Raiders half, but Walsh tries a long pass that Savage spills before he can race away for an intercept try.
11th minute - Wighton crosses halfway and Raiders shift left, where Savage and Timoko have the defence on the backfoot. Wighton kicks along the ground, but Walsh is again equal to the occasion.
10th minute - Egan scampers across halfway, but Sironen makes hash of playing the ball and gives away possession again.
Ninth minute - On the last tackle, Schneider grubbers to the goal area, but it's too heavy and Warriors have seven tackles.
Eighth minute - Warriors struggling to make ground and Lodge brings the ball up strongly, but throws an elbow at Harawira-Naera's face. Lodge goes on report and is probably lucky it's not more - more Raiders attacking opportunities.
Seventh minute - Raiders shift the ball right, but Asi rushes out of the defensive line and nails Schneider, who spills the ball. Tremendous from the new guy!
Sixth minute - Sironen has twisted his ankle in a tackle from Wighton, who was still lying on the ground. Katoa tries to offload and Walsh has no chance of catching that - another dumbe error in their own territory.
Fifth minute - Raiders into Warriors half early, and Harawira-Naera spies a fap and offloads. Wighton spills the ball, but Sironen is in trouble.
Fourth minute - Conservative touchfinder from Johnson, but Katoa finds halfway... Afoa spills a short pass from Lodge.
Third minute - Raiders already deep into Warriors half and shift it left, before Young kicks ahead. Walsh gathers at speed and wins a penalty for a high tackle.
Second minute - Katoa reaches halfway, Johnson kicks deep to Rapana.
First minute - Walsh kicks off and Rushton reaches halfway for the Raiders. Schneider kicks to Pompey.
Arthars is off with a shoulder injury, so Aitken will slip back to centre presumably.
Halftime
40th minute - Raiders charge over halfway, but Valemei dies with the ball, as the siren sounds.
39th minute - Young reaches halfway for Raiders, but Timoko loses the ball in a tackle, giving the Warriors one last chance before halftime.
Warriors kick on the first tackle to test Rapana's speed, but he dashes back to smother the threat metres from his line.
38th minute - Katoa holds onto the ball this time and Johnson crosses halfway. Sironen is brought down, but goes again.
Ball shifts left, but the last tap-pass is deemed forward.
37th minute - Warriors keep Raiders in their half and Schneider kicks long to Pompey.
36th minute - Schneider slots his conversion, CAN 20-12
34th minute - TRY to Wighton
Warriors defence is porous, as the Raiders go left and Wighton bounces out of a couple of ineffectual tackles to score.
33rd minute - Walsh slots his conversion, CAN 14-12
Raiders kick off and Afoa runs off the back fence... but Katoa spills the ball and Canberra are on attack again.
31st minute - TRY to Vailea
Afoa charges to halfway, Asi kicks ahead, Rapana slips, as the ball takes a lateral bounce, and Vailea is chasing to score.
30th minute - Walsh kicks off and again flirts with the deadball line. Elliott gets another offload in midfielder and Wighton puts a high kick acrossfield.
Rapana drops the ball, amid some confusion whether it went forward or backward. Ref says forward.
29th minute - Schneider converts, CAN 14-6
27th minute - TRY to Young
Metres from the Warriors line, Raiders shift left and Warriors are in immediately trouble with numbers, as Elliott offloads and Young finds a yawning gap in the defence.
26th minute - Fonua-Blake runs the kickoff back and immediately spills the ball, giving Canberra ideal field position to start their set.
24th minute - TRY to Pompey
Afoa reaches halfway on the fifth tackle and Johnson kicks high. Rapana throws a loose pass to Cotric, who spills it, and when the ball shifts left, Pompey is over in the corner.
Walsh converts from wide out, CAN 8-6
23rd minute - Tapine tries to put Elliott under the crossbar, but the hooker can't gather the pass.
22nd minute - Tapine loses the ball on halfway, but Tevaga has stripped it and Raiders have six more tackles.
20th minute - Warriors have good field position, as Afoa throws himself at the defensive line, but as the ball shifts right, there are too many Warriors and Johnson throws a pass across three of them into touch.
19th minute - Schneider grubbers towards the Warriors line, but Asi is there to defuse the threat. Walsh is dumped in a tackle that went past the horizontal and Wighton is put on report.
18th minute - Walsh tries an extra pass on halfway and the pass is deflected back by a retreating Raiders player, so another turnover to the Warriors.
17th minute - Walsh kicks off and Papalii runs it off his line. Warriors keep Raiders in their own half and Schneider kicks deep to Walsh.
16th minute - Schneider lines up a shot at goal from in front and slots it, CAN 8-0
14th minute - Papalii crosses halfway in the second tackle. Elliott splits the defence from dummy half, but Asi and Walsh bring him down.
Warriors are penalised for taking Rapana off the ball - Lodge has his second penalty in as many minutes.
13th minute - Warriors not making much headway on this set and Johnson kicks from his own 40. Savage runs it back and has a penalty for a high tackle.
12th minute - Harawira-Naera goes close and then Rapana gets caught on the last, so Warriors let off the hook.
11th minute - Fonua-Blake loses the ball in the play-the-ball and uses his captain's challenge, but replays show he simply placed the ball on Tapine's foot, so a loose carry from the skipper.
Raiders earn a penalty in front of the posts, after Berry dislodges the ball in a tackle, but they choose to tap and run.
10th minute - Wighton kicks toward Arthars, who gathers and beats a few tackles, before earning a penalty. Johnson kicks to halfway.
Ninth minute - Warriors kick off and Tapine reaches halfway on the fourth tackle.
Seventh minute - TRY to Timoko
Raiders are 10 metres out and shift left, where Wighton puts the young Kiwi centre into space, with a man overlap. Worrying signs from the Warriors already.
Schneider bends his conversion between the posts, CAN 6-0
Sixth minute - Raiders earn a clearing penalty, but Wighton's kick only reaches the 30. Raiders get a set restart, which will help them.
Fifth minute - Johnson puts up a high kick, but Rapana is all alone underneath it.
Fourth minute - Schneider puts up a high kick and Arthars leaps high to claim it. Warriors earn the first penalty of the game.
Third minute - Asi kicks long on the last tackled and Savage almost busts the defensive line.
Second minute - After his first touch of the ball, Asi is already being examined by medics, but he's OK.
Raiders are already deep into Warriors territory, Wighton runs a challening line and then puts up a high kick that Rapana gathers, then loses.
First minute - Raiders kick off and it would have gone into touch, if Sironen hadn't saved it. Hope that's not an omen...
Egan darts over halfway from dummy half and promptly gives the ball away. Ref's call is knock-on Raiders, but they've challenged already and they win it.
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Kia ora, good evening and welcome to our live coverage of NZ Warriors' NRL showdown against Canberra Raiders.
The Warriors face the immense task of somehow picking themselves up off the canvas, after their demoralising, record-breaking 70-10 defeat at the hands of rampant Melbourne Storm on Anzac Day.
They'll have to do so on just a five-day turnaround and without some key players, including injured Josh Curran and Chanel Harris-Tavita.
The Raiders are also looking to recapture some form, after losing their last three games to drop to 15th on the NRL ladder.
We'll have all of the action from kickoff at 5pm (NZ time).
TAB Odds: NZ Warriors $1.97, Canberra Raiders $1.79
Warriors: 1-Reece Walsh, 2-Rocco Berry, 3-Jesse Arthars, 4-Adam Pompey, 5-Viliami Vailea, 21-Daejearn Asi, 7-Shaun Johnson, 8-Addin Fonua-Blake (C), 9-Wayde Egan, 10-Matt Lodge, 11-Euan Aitken, 12-Bayley Sironen, 13-Jazz Tevaga
Bench: 14-Taniela Otukolo, 15-Bunty Afoa, 16-Eliesa Katoa, 17-Jack Murchie
Raiders: 1-Jordan Rapana, 2-Nick Cotric, 3-Matthew Timoko, 4-Semi Valemei, 5-Xavier Savage, 6-Jack Wighton, 7-Brad Schneider, 8-Josh Papalii, 16-Adam Elliott, 10-Joseph Tapine, 11-Hudson Young, 12-Corey Harawira-Naera, 13-Ryan Sutton
Bench: 9-Tom Starling, 14-Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad, 17-Corey Horsburgh, 18-Harry Rushton
Nathan Brown concedes NZ Warriors players gave up during record-breaking defeat to Melbourne Storm
By Alex Powell
NZ Warriors coach Nathan Brown concedes some of his players simply gave up in Monday's record-breaking 70-10 loss to Melbourne Storm.
Facing off in the traditional Anzac Day clash, the Warriors imploded in the second half, conceding 54 unanswered points, after trailing by only six at halftime.
The 60-point margin is the largest in the Warriors history, more than the 62-6 defeat against Penrith Panthers in 2013.
The second half compounded the nature and the reality of the defeat for the Warriors, conceding more than a point a minute in the last 40. From the 50th minute to full time, the Storm ran in nine tries without any threat of reply from a shellshocked Warriors outfit.
Fronting media immediately after the game, coach Brown didn't shirk responsibility for the defeat or mince his words, admitting some of his players stopped trying once the going got tough.
"Some people did, I've got no doubt at all" a stern Brown said. "I've been in this game a long time, and it's disappointing to actually sit here and say that.
"Some people looked for the easiest way out they could and it's sad. That's not a reflection of all the players - we had some players that worked extremely hard and put themselves on the line, but when you're playing against a team that's that good and you don't have the ball, the best players can look not good.
"That's what the Storm can do to you. I don't know how many tackles we had the ball for in the second half, but you could put many players out there.
"Sometimes, the fatigue causes people to make some bad decisions, but we had some people that made some bad decisions, not because of fatigue, and that's what's disappointing.
The Warriors won't have to wait long to make amends for the defeat, with a short turnaround before their next fixture against Canberra Raiders in Redcliffe on Saturday, just four days away.
While the brief respite won't be ideal for a team reeling from a record defeat, Brown sees his side's clash against the Raiders as the perfect opportunity to bounce back straight away.
"We'll get up tomorrow," he added. "Obviously, we'll have a chat when we get back to Brisbane and then we've got a short turnaround.
"The positive thing is we are playing in four days' time, we don't have to wait eight, nine days to play. We've got a short turnaround and we'll get back into it."
NRL regulations mean Brown will have to name his matchday squad to face the Raiders on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after Monday's loss.
But even after hitting out at the attitude of some of his stars, the Warriors coach isn't giving anything away on how the loss will affect his plans for next Saturday.
The only players guaranteed to not feature again are Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, who suffered a concussion, and Josh Curran, after a medial collateral ligament (MCL) injury to his knee. Kodi Nikorima could also be forced out, after a positive COVID-19 test, while forward Aaron Pene faces a judiciary hearing for head contact.
"I'm not going to sit here and make any statements about doing certain things now to players," said Brown. "I'm pretty clear about what I think happened and what I know happened.
"There's going to be some strong messages to certain individuals. There's no doubt about that, you can't hide from that.
"What we do off the back of it, you'll just have to wait and see."
