{"id":385514,"date":"2026-04-18T08:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/385514\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:09:12","slug":"nrl-nz-warriors-v-gold-coast-titans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/385514\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL – NZ Warriors v Gold Coast Titans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Alofi'ana<\/p>\n

\nAlofi’ana Khan-Pereira of the Warriors celebrates his try, NZ Warriors v Gold Coast Titans, round 7 of the NRL Telstra Premiership at Go Media Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand on Saturday 18 April 2026.
\n\u00a9 Photo: Andrew Cornaga \/ Photosport
\nPhoto: Andrew Cornaga\/www.photosport.nz\n<\/p>\n

New wing Alofiana Khan-Pereira had a try double for his new club against his old one, as NZ Warriors overcame Gold Coast Titans 28-20 at Auckland’s Go Media.<\/p>\n

After ending an 11-year drought against Melbourne Storm last week<\/a>, the Warriors backed up with clinical opening half that had them 22-0 up at the break.<\/p>\n

Khan-Pereira, who made his club debut against the Storm, showed his tryscoring prowess with two in the left corner, while five-eighth Chanel Harris-Tavita and wing Dallin Watene-Zelezniak also crossed in the first 40 minutes.<\/p>\n

The Warriors completed an incredible 95 percent of their sets (22\/23) in that stanza, but the Titans did not fold after the restart. Centre Jojo Fifita had them on the board next, answered immediately by Warriors lock Erin Clark.<\/p>\n

Gold Coast scored three tries in the final 20 minutes, two of them converted, but had left themselves too deep a hole to climb out of.<\/p>\n

Warriors co-captain Mitch Barnett returned strongly from a broken thumb, while veteran second-rower Kurt Capewell logged 66 minutes in his comeback from a calf strain last month.<\/p>\n

The result elevates them to second on the NRL table, two points behind Penrith Panthers and ahead of Wests Tigers on points differential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alofi’ana Khan-Pereira of the Warriors celebrates his try, NZ Warriors v Gold Coast Titans, round 7 of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-385514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385514","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=385514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}