{"id":74309,"date":"2025-08-17T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/74309\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T05:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:00:14","slug":"match-report-nrlw-round-7-vs-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/74309\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Report: NRLW Round 7 vs Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wests Tigers have scored their first victory of the 2025 NRLW season after coming away with a 16-12 win over the Dragons in Round 7.<\/p>\n

In their Gadhu Gathering contest at Allianz Stadium, Wests Tigers were too strong, with Indigenous players Caitlin Turnbull and Tiana-Lee Thorne standouts throughout the match.<\/p>\n

After a period of sustained early pressure attacking the Dragons line, Wests Tigers produced first points when Jetaya Faifua, making her first appearance at five-eighth for the club, stepped her way through to score.<\/p>\n

Emily Bass\u2019 conversion made it 6-0 to the Tigers at Allianz and they held a one-player advantage for the next 10 minutes too after Hannah Southwell was sin-binned for a spear tackle on debutant Portia Bourke.<\/p>\n

The Dragons came close to scoring their first in the 15th minute, however it was ruled out due to a knock-on in the lead-up from Teagan Berry.<\/p>\n


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Minutes later, after a try-saver on Berry by Caitlin Turnbull, Zali Hopkins pounced on a Raecene McGregor grubber kick to finally put first points on the board for the Red V.<\/p>\n

A Caitlin Turnbull line-break nearly created points for Wests Tigers in the 23rd minute, and it was only five minutes later that Jetaya Faifua grabbed a second off the back of another long-range bust, this time from skipper Kezie Apps.<\/p>\n

Another tough conversion was slotted successfully by Bass to make it a 16-6 Wests Tigers lead at half-time.<\/p>\n


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Turnbull was inches away from scoring moments later, however it was the Dragons who crossed next through Tori Shipton.<\/p>\n

At 16-12, the next team to score was likely to win the match and despite numerous chances, neither team could post further points.<\/p>\n

Wests Tigers deserved their victory in a match that ebbed and flowed throughout the entirety of the contest and will look to go back-to-back when they take on the Cowboys at Leichhardt next weekend.<\/p>\n


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Wests Tigers 16\u00a0(Faifua 2, Thorne tries; Bass 2\/3 goals)\u00a0defeated Dragons 12\u00a0(Hopkins, Shipton tries; McGregor 2\/2 goals)\u00a0at Allianz Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wests Tigers have scored their first victory of the 2025 NRLW season after coming away with a 16-12…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-74309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}