{"id":577652,"date":"2026-08-23T08:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T08:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/577652\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T08:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T08:16:09","slug":"nrlw-warriors-women-fall-to-record-defeat-to-sydney-roosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/577652\/","title":{"rendered":"NRLW: Warriors women fall to record defeat to Sydney Roosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Jocelyn Kelleher also set a new record for the most goals in an NRLW match, landing nine conversions from 12 attempts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Speaking to Sky Sport after the match, stand-in Warriors captain Kaiyah Ahi admitted the result was a tough pill to swallow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s pretty tough losing by that much,\u201d Ahi said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI definitely think we kept showing up for each other. When you give a team like the Roosters that much ball, they\u2019re going to come out with a scoreline like that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI think we just didn\u2019t get into the game cycle and it was shown they were just scoring set after set, but once we got into the game cycle and got our rhythm, we got good ball and we were able to score off that.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The Warriors were unable to match the Roosters\u2019 intensity and were limited to just 35% possession. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">They completed only 12 of their 20 sets and ran for 607m, compared with the Roosters, who completed 28 of 37 sets and ran for 1559m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Stacey Waaka and Mele Hufanga scored the Warriors\u2019 only tries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Their previous biggest defeat had also come against the Roosters, when they went down 30-6 last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Despite the heavy loss, the Warriors remain sixth \u2013 holding the final NRLW finals spot \u2013 with a 4-4 record and three games remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">They will look to bounce back next week when they face the last-placed St George Illawarra Dragons in Auckland.<\/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":"Jocelyn Kelleher also set a new record for the most goals in an NRLW match, landing nine conversions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[152506,74,6326,4962,5506,3592,49640,305,1861,3012,8482,83883,2225,111,43,139,22766,69,1974,96689,97649,1734,19554,61,3006,2248,2834,80],"class_list":["post-577652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-152506","tag-after","tag-biggest","tag-competitions","tag-defeat","tag-fall","tag-finals","tag-have","tag-history","tag-hopes","tag-huge","tag-humiliating","tag-loss","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nrlw","tag-nz","tag-record","tag-roosters","tag-slumping","tag-sydney","tag-taken","tag-to","tag-warriors","tag-women","tag-womens","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577652","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=577652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}