Match Centre

SCRUM PANTHERS - Marsters has a crack at a try in the corner, but he's taken into touch.

SCRUM TIGERS - Cleary loses the ball in the tackle.

PENALTY TIGERS - They will kick for touch and go into unknown territory for this half, the Panthers half.

PENALTY PANTHERS - Phillips threw a pass infield. Benji recovered and passed for a team mate. None expected it and Penrith regathered. Tigers gave away a penalty on the next tackle., on their own line.

DROP OUT TIGERS - Maloney with another magnificent grubber on the second tackle. All of Penrith and Emu Plains are chasing through, looking for a try but Nofoaluma beats them all.

SCRUM PANTHERS - Tigers are even giving away penalties or giving away possession from knock-ons.

Tyrone Phillips denied a second try for the half after another great cover tackle.

DROP OUT TIGERS - Maloney with a great grubber. Nofoaluma cleans up but is trapped in-goal.

DROP OUT TIGERS - MWZ and Thompson almost run into each other trying to field a bomb. The ball bounces into the Tigers in-goal. Thompson knocks it dead just before the Panthers pounce on it.

PENALTY PANTHERS - Hetherington loses the ball in the tackle, but Twal is ruled to have had his hand on it and he gets sent to the bin.

SCRUM PANTHERS - Tigers with some woeful hands lose the ball inside their own half. Panthers have their tail up and look keen for points.

Panthers with some magnificent fast, open play very nearly scores, but Crichton drops the ball in the process of grounding it due to the great cover tackle by MAlakai Watene-Zelezniak

PENALTY PANTHERS - McQueen offside. Tigers getting close to a caution now.

PENALTY PANTHERS - Kikau barges over but it's called back because Peachey took out McQueen. However, The Tigers were offside at the start of the play.

PENALTY PANTHERS - Tigers edge defenders drag the tackled Panthers player into touch.

PENALTY PANTHERS - Lawrence ruled to have tackled Crichton while he is in the air fielding a bomb.

Chee Kam makes a break on the left side, runs for 30m before getting tackled, just inside the Panthers half.

Marsters performs a 1-on-1 strip on Merrin, but Penrith pounce on it, getting a fresh set deep inside the Tigers half.

Maloney chooses to run on the last, throwing another lobbed pass to Phillips, however this time the winger is shut down.

Panthers starting to fire up the second phase play

SCRUM TIGERS - Brooks puts in a grubber and Cleary knocks on trying to pick it up. The refs then wait a minute before making the call.

SCRUM TIGERS - Tamou knocks the ball out of Brooks hands.

PENALTY TIGERS - Penrith holding down too long. Tigers get an easy out

Tigers have really capitalised on the one man advantage. They spent most of the time defending.

Cleary's kick was taken by Harawera-Naera, however he couldn't get the ball away.

PENALTY PANTHERS - Eisenhuth penalised for holding down too long.

Maloney drops the ball taking on the line late in the set. Change over.

PENALTY PANTHERS - Tigers working over the tackled player on halfway. Penrith inside the Tigers 25m now.

Brooks passes to Benji, but it goes over his shoulder and Penrith survive.

PENALTY TIGERS - Merrin gets marched 2 penalties after the warning.

PENALTY TIGERS - Panthers done for blocking. Tigers now with a full set inside the Panthers 25m

SCRUM TIGERS - Yeo spills the ball due to thinking too much.

PENALTY PANTHERS - Penrith kept milking for a penalty until the ref called it.

SCRUM PANTHERS - Brooks receives a dog of a pass from Taylor and he puts it down.

PENALTY TIGERS - 2 tackles after the caution and the Panthers are pinged again, and warned again.

PENALTY TIGERS - And the ref has decided to give Maloney a caution after giving away 4 straight penalties. This time its for being offside again. Tigers 20m from the Panthers line.

PENALTY TIGERS - Benji catches the Panthers marker defence all over the shop. Tigers again with a piggy back out of their own half again.

Benji grubbers on the third tackle for Nofoaluma, but Cleary cleans up.

PENALTY TIGERS - Taylor tackled a little high. Tigers with a piggy back out of their own half after the restart.

PENALTY TIGERS - Penrith again up too quickly.

PENALTY TIGERS - Penrith up too quickly.

Maloney with a brilliant kick, taken by Peachey just 2m from the Tigers line, who flings it back. Phillips regathers and puts in a little kick that is cleanly taken down low by Thompson.

Maloney with a nice kick to the Tigers corner. Nofoaluma fields it and manages to run back in goal and then into the field of play.

PENALTY PANTHERS - Benji penalised for tackling DWZ while he was taking a bomb. Benji was contesting the bomb as well though....

Penrith end their first set with a bomb from just past halfway which Thompson swallows effortlessly.

Tigers kick off and the Panthers have first use of the ball.