An inexperienced One New Zealand Warriors side couldn\u2019t match the Sydney Roosters slumping to a 14-48 loss in tonight\u2019s round one New South Wales Cup encounter at Go Media Stadium.<\/p>\n
After their title-winning deeds last year, the Warriors have gone into the 2026 season fielding a youthful squad with players promoted through the club\u2019s pathways system.<\/p>\n
And tonight the Roosters gave their younger opponents a difficult time, especially in the opening 40 minutes when they ran in six tries to lead 28-0 at halftime.<\/p>\n
There was an improvement in the second half, the Warriors lifting their defence for a 14-20 scoreline as they scored three tries while conceding four.<\/p>\n
After scoring first in the second 40 through winger Haizyn Mellars, the Warriors added a second through Mellars soon after before 19-year-old front rower Tepatasi Laumalili went over for a third try.<\/p>\n
As well as Mellars, fellow new signing Alofiana Khan-Pereira had his first competition outing for the Warriors tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An inexperienced One New Zealand Warriors side couldn\u2019t match the Sydney Roosters slumping to a 14-48 loss in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-315633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}