Warriors Facing Another Fine After Loss

Manly

A disappointing 20-10 loss to Manly could be made worse for the Warriors by a third fine from the NRL in two weeks.

The Warriors are likely a breach notice after forward Jeremy Latimore, who was named on the bench an hour before kick-off for the Brookvale Oval clash, started the match instead of Russell Packer.

The Kiwi side were hit during the week with a $3,000 fine for being three minutes late onto the Mt Smart Stadium field to face the Sydney Roosters last Saturday night.

They copped a further $2,000 for trainer Ruben Wiki manhandling a player when an altercation started.

The hip pocket pain will compound that already inflicted by the Sea Eagles, who scored four tries to two in front of a tiny crowd announced as 8,680 on a boggy Brookvale surface.

To make matters worse, the Warriors' centre crisis worsened with Shaun Berrigan suffering a fractured hand.

They already have Kiwi international Jerome Ropati out for the season with a knee injury.

Michael Oldfield, Michael Robertson, Jamie Buhrer and Joe Galuvao scored tries for Manly with Daly Cherry-Evans booting two from four.

Backrowers Lewis Brown and Elijah Taylor bagged the Warriors' four-pointers, with James Maloney kicking one from two as the Kiwi side's two-match mini revival came to an end.

Manly have now won four from six and it continues to be their young guns shining, and they laid on the home side's first three tries.

Rookie halfback Cherry-Evans recovered from an error which had allowed Warriors backrower Brown to score first - the halfback kicked the ball into a teammate who was offside - to lay on the Sea Eagles' first with a perfect grubber for Oldfield in the 27th minute.

Winger Michael Robertson was in four minutes later when young fullback Will Hopoate stepped and produced a superb one-arm offload.

Not to be outdone, 20-year-old five-eighth Kieran Foran laid on the short ball for Buhrer's 36th minute try and it was 14-4.

Galuvao took advantage of good work by hooker Matt Ballin 14 minutes after the break and Manly were denied four minutes later when a spectacular Buhrer flick pass was dubiously ruled forward.

The second half deteriorated into an error-fest but the Warriors didn't give up and Feleti Mateo laid on a consolation try for Taylor three minutes before the siren.

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