Roosters Demolish the Warriors unconvincingly

The Sydney Roosters have kept their good mid-season form going with a comfortable 24-0 victory over a very poor New Zealand Warriors side in front of 16,301 fans at a sunny Allianz Stadium.

The opening half was a tale of two halves with the Warriors taking control of the field position but they couldn't complete their sets with just three completed sets out of their first ten.

The game then started to turn towards the Roosters and it took a good piece of vision from Jake Friend to put a kick in behind the Warriors defensive line with Aiden Guerra scoring.

The second try summed up the dominance that the Roosters were beginning to grow when Blake Ferguson steamrolled his way to score where he left Solomone Kata in his wake to score in the corner. Although this was the only try Ferguson scored it was the sign of the dominance that the Roosters centre was going to have over his rookie counterpart.

The final try of the first half for the Roosters came through Roger Tuivasa-Sheck after he outjumped Sam Tomkins to grab the ball and score under the posts and after Maloney's conversion it was 18-0 at half time.

The second half will never be seen in the top halves of the season with just one try to the Roosters but it didn't mean they stopped creating opportunities they just managed to butcher at least six other efforts.

The Roosters only points of the second half came after just three minutes when James Maloney scored after a 50m burst from Michael Jennings down the touchline before an offload that looked to be forward was taken by Maloney who scored.

The Roosters should've then put the Warriors to the sword and they created the opportunites but all the Roosters could come up with was errors and bombed tries.

The bombed tries included an error from Blake Ferguson in a 1 on 1 tackle by Sam Tomkins, Mitchell Pearce flick pass to nobody with the line wide open, countless knock-ons and just some bizarre play.

Next weekend the Warriors head back across the ditch to play Manly whilst the Roosters are starring on Friday Night Football when they play the Tigers.

Match Details

Sydney Roosters 24 New Zealand Warriors 0
Venue: Allianz Stadium
Crowd: 16301
Halftime Score: Sydney Roosters 18 New Zealand Warriors 0

SYDNEY ROOSTERS (24)
Tries: Aidan Guerra, James Maloney, Blake Ferguson, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
Field Goals:
Conversions: James Maloney (4/4)
Penalty Goals:

NEW ZEALAND WARRIORS (0)
Tries:
Field Goals:
Conversions:
Penalty Goals:

LeagueUnlimited.com Players of the Match:

3 points - Blake Ferguson
2 points - Sam Tomkins
1 point - James Maloney

LeagueUnlimited.com Live Commentary

TEAM CHANGES: ROOSTERS: Shaun Kenny-Dowell is out after highly publicised personal issues, Brendan Elliott into the team in jersey 21
Boyd Cordner being rested with Isaac Liu coming into the starting side with Jackson Hastings coming onto the bench

TEAM CHANGES: WARRIORS: One change for the Warriors - Sam Rapira comes into the side in jersey 18 with Charlie Gubb dropping out

Matt Cecchin calls time on and the game is underway - Warriors first use of the ball defending the northern (Sydney) end of the ground

1: Warriors complete their first set with an average 4th tackle kick that finds touch 40m out from the Roosters line

3: UNFORCED ERROR NEW ZEALAND WARRIORS
David Fusitua makes an unforced error.
Great build up in the play for the Warriors but a late pass from Sam Tomkins catches Fusitua out and scrum is 35m out

5: UNFORCED ERROR SYDNEY ROOSTERS
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck makes an unforced error.
Worrying signs for the Warriors with Blake Ferguson streaking down the touchline before on the next play the Roosters lose it

6: UNFORCED ERROR NEW ZEALAND WARRIORS
David Fusitua makes an unforced error.
Shaun Johnson forces himself into a corner and gives an offload to Fusitua who had no chance of catching it

6: PENALTY WARRIORS: Roosters penalised from the scrum after Roger Tuivasa-Sheck was ruled to have run an obstruction

9: UNFORCED ERROR NEW ZEALAND WARRIORS
Shaun Johnson makes an unforced error.
Shaun Johnson usually gives us rocks or diamonds and today its rocks from the golden boot winner

11: PENALTY ROOSTERS: First penalty for the Roosters with Bodene Thompson penalised for holding the marker preventing him to go for the ball when the Warriors had no dummy half

15: Roosters have gone to the air again and Sam Tomkins makes the catch under no pressure whatsoever

15: Chad Townsend puts the kick in down the short side and finds touch 11m out from the Roosters line

17: PENALTY ROOSTERS: Ben Matulino throws JWH over the horizontal and the penalty takes the Roosters upfield

18: UNFORCED ERROR SYDNEY ROOSTERS
Jared Waerea-Hargreaves makes an unforced error.
Second tackle error from JWH helps the Warriors go upfield

19: NO TRY is the ruling after Chad Townsend lost the ball thanks to a try saver from Mitchell Pearce after he stepped RTS

21: UNFORCED ERROR NEW ZEALAND WARRIORS
David Fusitua makes an unforced error.
David Fusitua has no control over the ball and loses it when trying to get up to play it and the Roosters have a scrum 35m out

22: PENALTY ROOSTERS: Michael Jennings is taken high and the Roosters take the tap

24: TRY SYDNEY ROOSTERS
Scored by Aidan Guerra. Kick to come.
Aidan Guerra scores the opener after a great pick up and good vision from Jake Friend to put the kick through

25: SUCCESSFUL CONVERSION SYDNEY ROOSTERS
Conversion attempt by James Maloney successful.
James Maloney slots the conversion from just next to the left hand upright

26: PENALTY ROOSTERS: Penalty count now 4-1 to the Roosters, and they go up to the 20m line

27: TRY SYDNEY ROOSTERS
Scored by Blake Ferguson. Kick to come.
Blake Ferguson gets over the top of Solomone Kata and he has way too much strength and scores

27: SUCCESSFUL CONVERSION SYDNEY ROOSTERS
Conversion attempt by James Maloney successful.
James Maloney puts a beautiful conversion in and extends the lead

33: TRY SYDNEY ROOSTERS
Scored by Roger Tuivasa-Sheck. Kick to come.
Green lights for RTS after replays showed he just out jumped the English fullback

34: SUCCESSFUL CONVERSION SYDNEY ROOSTERS
Conversion attempt by James Maloney successful.
James Maloney slots the conversion from right in front and extends the lead

37: Warriors on the ropes after a huge defensive set from the Roosters who can't take advantage of their good position

39: Blake Ferguson is struggling massively to keep pace with his own teammates in back play

40: Second half is UNDERWAY - Roosters having the first use of the ball

43: TRY SYDNEY ROOSTERS
Scored by James Maloney. Kick to come.
From 41m out from their own line the Roosters go down the touchline through Michael Jennings who gets an "almost" forward pass away to Maloney who scores for the Warriors

47: SUCCESSFUL CONVERSION SYDNEY ROOSTERS
Conversion attempt by James Maloney successful.
Converted

49: Roosters blow a certain try and Fusitua takes it and gets up to halfway on the run and its followed by a penalty

50: Another horrible ball from Shaun Johnson and the Roosters turn defence into attack

53: Roosters are giving up some huge opportunities deep in attack with this game still open... just

56: UNFORCED ERROR SYDNEY ROOSTERS
Blake Ferguson makes an unforced error.
Blake Ferguson streaks up the sideline and Sam Tomkins gets him and forces the error

57: Warriors go to the air again and now they are forcing the Roosters to work it out from their own 20m zone

59: Warriors go across the field with the high kick but again Brendan Elliott is up to the task

60: Again the Warriors play is absolutely dreadful... not sure where its going to improve for them

65: Repeat set for the Roosters as Brendan Elliott is caught ingoal after a good kick from the Warriors

68: Roosters go close again but the play is very scrappy but they get a penalty with Tomkins penalised for not being square

69: Here we go again... another error in attack though a touch from the Warriors defender is giving the Roosters another set

70: Roosters on the Warriors line but they can't pierce the line again

77: AGAIN... There is a blown try this time its the Warriors who have blown the try

80: FULL TIME at Allianz Stadium and the Roosters have scored a 24-0 win over the Warriors