{"id":570652,"date":"2026-08-16T10:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T10:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570652\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T10:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T10:34:11","slug":"nrlw-warriors-womens-comeback-falls-short-against-wests-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570652\/","title":{"rendered":"NRLW: Warriors women\u2019s comeback falls short against Wests Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The Warriors levelled the match at 22-22 with 10 minutes remaining when Kaiyah Atai crashed over and Maliepo slotted her only conversion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The Warriors had momentum in the final minutes, but a costly turnover allowed the Tigers to lead again through Manera before McGregor added a late penalty to seal the eight-point victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The Warriors now drop to sixth in the standings with a 4-3 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">They do sit two points clear of the chasing pack, but face a challenging run home with four games remaining this season, starting next weekend against the unbeaten Sydney Roosters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/ben-francis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/ben-francis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Francis<\/a> is an Auckland-based reporter for the New Zealand Herald who covers breaking sports news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Warriors levelled the match at 22-22 with 10 minutes remaining when Kaiyah Atai crashed over and Maliepo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[281380,9092,22773,15248,13989,85098,2225,111,43,139,22766,69,57695,5976,26887,1734,22768,3006,22767,2834,80],"class_list":["post-570652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-281380","tag-against","tag-comeback","tag-falls","tag-fell","tag-fightback","tag-loss","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nrlw","tag-nz","tag-secondhalf","tag-short","tag-sides","tag-sydney","tag-tigers","tag-warriors","tag-wests","tag-womens","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570652","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=570652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}