{"id":554424,"date":"2026-08-01T08:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554424\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:57:11","slug":"eight-try-warriors-crush-titans-to-stay-in-top-two-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554424\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight-try Warriors crush Titans to stay in top-two race"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Warriors have answered the Sydney Roosters’ challenge to stay in the NRL’s top-two finals race with a 42-6 victory over the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n

After wobbling with a poor loss to Canterbury last week, the Warriors rebounded with a vital eight-try rout of the Titans at Cbus Super Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n

They were never going to match the Roosters’ record 82-12 mauling of North Queensland on Thursday night, but a 13th win of the season nevertheless kept the Warriors within two competition points of the second-placed Tricolours.<\/p>\n

Critically, the New Zealand outfit enjoys a considerable 61-point superior points differential over the Roosters to be well placed to snatch second spot on the table if Trent Robinson’s side slip up in the run to the finals.<\/p>\n

A top-two finish guarantees a home qualifying final and then a home prelim with victory in the first week of the September play-offs.<\/p>\n

The Titans had been chasing three straight wins for the first time since 2017 to keep their own very slim mathematical finals hopes flickering.<\/p>\n

But the home team were all but done by the break after the Warriors piled on five tries through Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, Alofiana Khan-Pereira, Chanel Harris-Tavita, Leka Halasima and Jacob Laban to lead 26-6 at halftime.<\/p>\n

\"Chanel<\/p>\n

Chanel Harris-Tavita of the Warriors is tackled during the round 22 NRL match between Gold Coast Titans and New Zealand Warriors. (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n

The Warriors completed the drubbing with second-half tries to Eddie Ieremia-Toeava and a double to playmaker Te Maire Martin.<\/p>\n

In a timely turnaround a month out from the finals, the Warriors racked up 40 points or more for the third time this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Warriors have answered the Sydney Roosters’ challenge to stay in the NRL’s top-two finals race with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,85,111,43,139,69,3006],"class_list":["post-554424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-australia","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554424","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=554424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}