Warriors

After hitting the lead in the second half, the Warriors are overrun late to make a losing start to their 2022 NRL campaign in Australia.

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During the first half of the Warriors' contest against the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday night, Jayson Tatum went to Twitter to sing the praises of rookie ...

I really appreciate that." "I really appreciate that," Kuminga said. It's really crazy, I didn't expect him to know what I'm doing on the court.

The halfback's ill-advised cross-field kick was a decisive moment as the Warriors lost to the Dragons in his first game back at the club.

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He’s been a little bit of both tonight but he comes up with a very, very important try for the Dragons.” “He almost handed the ball to Eli Katoa, the pass was that short… The 40-20 from inside his 30, a monster kick.” But the Dragons found their mojo in the second half via Mikaele Ravalawa who scored two more tries to add to his first four-pointer. It’s not all about the brilliance,” he said. “He’s a machine. “I just think they need to think about what they were doing, it was great in the opening 25 minutes. Johnson slotted the conversion to bring his side within two points of the Dragons with eight minutes left in the first half. From then it looked like the Dragons had lost control of the game. They’ve just fallen in a hole, they’ve gone away from what was working early. Anthony Griffin needs to point them in the right direction.” But the 19-year-old is human after all.

They had their moments but this match resembled a lot of games in the 2021 season, as a collective fade in the last 30 minutes condemned them to a 28-16 round- ...

They had the platform but then suffered a brain fade, with a string of errors. Fonua-Blake ran 50 metres from the kickoff in a stirring charge and Aaron Pene later provided some inspiration with a great defensive stop on Ravalawa. A few plays later, Wayde Egan crossed after Johnson's deception put the energetic Curran through the line. But then they seemed to switch off, with a catalogue of mistakes and head-scratching moments. Bullocking Dragons winger Mikaele Ravalawa was a menace with a hat-trick, but the Warriors were masters of their own downfall. They had their moments but this match resembled a lot of games in the 2021 season, as a collective fade in the last 30 minutes condemned them to a 28-16 round-one defeat to an unspectacular but solid Dragons team.

St George Illawarra winger Mikaele Ravalawa scored a hat-trick of tries, made a try-saving tackle on fellow Fijian Marcello Montoya and carried the ball for a ...

It was quite clear for everyone to see that we want to play a much more positive brand of footy this year and we’re trying to find the balance of when to do it and when not to. Johnson then put second-rower Eliesa Katoa over for a 49th minute try in the following set. It's going to take us a while to get into a real groove. The main thing I was just really happy with the way we knuckled down when we were behind": Dragons coach Anthony Griffin. We certainly never made the Dragons work hard with the way we controlled the ball": Warriors coach Nathan Brown. The Warriors took the lead for the first time early in the second half after Shaun Johnson took advantage of the wind as his back with a 70-metre kick that found touch just before the St George Illawarra goal line.