SCRUM TITANS - Tigers with the short kick off. MWZ bats it back and it bounces into touch.
Gordon from almost in front, adds the goal.
Titans go in with another soft try. This time Arrow stops, looks for a runner, none arise, so then he takes off and falls over the line for a try.
PENALTY TITANS - Titans kick is blocked by Brooks, the Titans kick again into Naiqama and Brooks picks it up but is offside.
MWZ gets put into space and gets tackled 10m shy of the line and then throws a hail mary flick pass inside to no one and the Titans survive.
PENALTY TIGERS - Titans offside. Tigers 5m shy of halfway
Reynolds kicks to the right wing, Sami takes the catch and somehow gets back into the field of the play.
Farah with a charge down, regather and he runs 40 metres downfield before being tackled
Gordon from the right touchline, looking into the sun, and he misses.
Tigers turn the ball inside to Naiqama, who drops it cold. Don picks it up and races 80 metres to score, despite Aloiai going toe-to-toe with him the whole distance.
A Marsters offload is touched by the Titans and the Tigers get 6 again.
Taylor with a torpedo high kick. Mbye lets it bounce and the ball rolls dead. 7 tackle set for the Tigers
SCRUM TITANS - Sue with a lazy looking knock on just 10m from the Titans line.
PENALTY TIGERS - Tigers get a penalty to help them out of their own half. Brooks with a big kick sees the Tigers start their set inside the Titans half.
Gordon adds the extras.
From the restart and the Titans go end to end. The Titans tap back the high kick and the ball goes to Brimson who runs 22 metres to score near the posts untouched.
Gordon kicks the penalty goal from right in front.
PENALTY TITANS - Marsters holds down too long on the tackle. Titans opting to take the two.
SCRUM TITANS - Don almost gets taken into touch, dumps the ball in field and it goes forward off Reynolds. Titans still camped inside the Tigers 20.
Messy play all round there. Taylor grubbered into Naiqama's leg, very nearly kicking it into his own player. The Tigers then knocked on.
DROP OUT TIGERS - Taylor's shortside grubber is forced dead by Mbye, somehow, luckily.
Thompson spills the ball again, twice in a row now and the Titans go back on the attack.
Taylor's grubber is way too heavy and goes dead. Tigers with a 7 tackle set.
SCRUM TITANS - Taylor's high kick is dropped by Thompson in the right corner
SCRUM TIGERS - Taylor with a brilliant short side kick, finds touch 20m from the Tigers line
Naiqama with a great break down the left sideline. The Tigers spread the ball right and Reynolds again makes a half break before getting a low offload away inside to Mbye, who can't hang onto it.
SCRUM TIGERS - Mbye takes Copley into touch
PENALTY TITANS - Lawrence holds down too long.
Tigers again run it on the last and are stopped 3m shy of the Titans line.
Taylor puts up a mistimed bomb at halfway. Tigers claim it and start their set in great position.
Farah makes a break and links with Brooks on the inside who is caught by the back of his jumper. Farah then kicks to the other side of the field and Thompson very nearly gets a kick away, but instead goes into touch.
Titans get the second half underway
PENALTY TIGERS - They takle a quick tap and throw the ball around and storm into the Titans half, but can't add to the score.
Titans turn it over on the next tackle and Tigers regather.
Mbye with a great trysaving tackle on Proctor!
DROP OUT TIGERS - Nice kick by Taylor and Mbye has to run the ball dead.
SCRUM TITANS - Great ball from Mbye out to MWZ, who makes a brilliant one handed take and sets for the line. As he twists to plant the ball, he plants it short and then drops it.
SCRUM TIGERS - Peats looking lost at dummy half as no runner's put up their hand. Naiqama wrapped him up and Peats spilled the ball.
Taylor copped a heavy knock in the tackle prior and he comes off for an HIA
Jai Arrow hit the deck and is getting treated for a head knock. Looks like he got a stray finger in the eye from his team mate in a tackle.
SCRUM TIGERS - Titans kick goes into touch. Tigers working it out of their own half now.
PENALTY TITANS - Sami turns to field a great kick by Reynolds and the ball bounces awkwardly. Thompson flies through and gives Sami a gentle push and pounces on the loose ball for a try, however it's disallowed.
Reynolds with a nice half break and gets an offload away. Tigers on the attack now.
Gordon converts easily.
Lawrence rushes up to put another big hit on Taylor, but is checked by the decoy runner legally and Taylor hits the gap and scores to the right of the posts.
PENALTY TITANS - Push in the back by Marsters on a Titans player without the ball. Titans 20m from the Tigers line.
PENALTY TITANS - Copley is down with a head knock after he collided face first with Chee-Kam's forehead, and then appeared to fall into a crusher tackle.
Marsters nails the sideline conversion.
Taylor's pass go to the ground and Naiqama cleans up, 20m from his own line, From the next tackle, the Tigers swing the ball right, before Farah makes a half break and then gets a good ball to Reynolds who then runs 65m to score in the corner. A great broken field try and the crowd is going nuts!
PENALTY TITANS - Tigers inside the 10
Gordon from right in front, adds the extras.
Soft try for the Titans. Peats with a crash ball to James on the Tigers line and he pushes over the one defender to score under the posts.
PENALTY TITANS - They take the quick tap 20m from the Tigers line.
Great run by Packer ends with him losing the ball. Titans clean up.
Brooks runs on the last and nearly sneaks through. He gets a low pass away but it travels forward. Change over
Marsters from almost in front, adds the extras.
Chris Lawrence hits the line and gets a lovely short line ball to Naiqama, who runs a gorgeous outside-in line to race away 60m to score
PENALTY TIGERS - Crowd help the Tigers get a penalty on their own line.
SCRUM TITANS - An inside ball from Reynolds to Lawrence is grassed. Titans start their set inside the Tigers 35m
Wallace makes a great break and attempts an offload inside and its knocked on by the Titans...try goes begging. Naiqama cleans up
SCRUM TIGERS - Roberts kicks to Don, but he loses the ball into touch.
SCRUM TITANS - Taylor's pass goes out the back and misses everyone. MWZ dives on it and then loses it.
SCRUM TITANS - Thompson very nearly scores, but he is taken into touch by Gordon
SCRUM TIGERS - Taylor looks to have kicked a 40/20. He launched it from 35m out and is ruled to have passed inches shy of the 20
Poor set from the Tigers, run on the last and easily contained. Very good defence by the Titans
PENALTY TIGERS - Mbye held down too long.
SCRUM TIGERS - Titans knock on right on their own line. Tigers with a full set 10m out.
Tigers chase the bomb from Brooks in numbers, but the Titans hold firm
Good opening defensive set by the Tigers. Moses gets a horror bounce for his first touch, but he picks it up brilliantly.
Tigers get us underway at the eighth wonder.
Robbie Farah runs onto the ground in Wests Tigers colours again. Everything feels right in the world again.
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Jon Stone, Gavin Reynolds
Touch Judges: Rickey McFarlane, Belinda Sleeman
Video Referee:
WESTS TIGERS (12)
Tries: Kevin Naiqama, Josh Reynolds
Field Goals:
Conversions: Esan Marsters (2/2)
Penalty Goals:
GOLD COAST TITANS (30)
Tries: Ryan James, Ashley Taylor, Aj Brimson, Anthony Don, Jai Arrow
Field Goals:
Conversions: Michael Gordon (4/5)
Penalty Goals: Michael Gordon (1/1)