LIVE: Roosters' 'dirty night' gets worse with star's injury

After toiling hard each night, Roosters centre Billy Smith has been denied a deserved try, ruled offside and wrong the 10 metres of a contention by the Bunker.

It goes from atrocious to worse for the Roosters with Jaxson Paulo dropping the shot aft a grubber from the Panthers adjacent to the effort line.

Tyrone Peachey made the winger pay, pouncing connected the escaped shot to people his 2nd try.

Cleary kicks the conversion to marque it Penrith's biggest triumph implicit the Roosters. Can they marque it a half-century?

Jarome Luai scores his archetypal effort to headdress disconnected the five-eighths ascendant night.

The incumbent State of Origin fractional has sent a connection to manager Brad Fittler with tonight's superb show arsenic Nicho Hynes continues to situation him for a spot. 

Nathan Cleary converts the effort to marque it 42-4 with 5 minutes remaining. 

Normally it wouldn't instrumentality Panthers winger Sunia Turuva 70 minutes to people successful a try-fest of a crippled but it has tonight!

Turuva went successful connected the near country aft a superb play acceptable up by Jarome Luai.

Cleary makes it 36-4. 

Early shot to Roosters centre Billy Smith has fixed the broadside its archetypal points with Smith flick passing to Corey Allan for a try.

Suaalii misses the conversion. 

An Isaah Yeo transverse footwear connected the past tackle has delivered the fastener a pin constituent effort assistance to Brian To'o who scored successful the corner.

"If helium goes and puts his manus successful the toilet there'll beryllium a golden ticker successful there," Brad Fittler joked connected Nine's sum astir the forward's luck.

Nathan Cleary converts the try. 

The Roosters wounded situation has got adjacent worse with Joey Manu leaving the field.

As Sitili Tupouniua was pushed backmost by the Panthers defence, Manu was caught up and appeared to injure his ankle.

"A soiled nighttime for the Roosters has conscionable got worse," Nine commentator Matt Thompson said.

NSW Blues manager Brad Fittler believed the wounded was a nonstop effect of the Panthers intent successful defence.

"They've been brutal each nighttime the Panthers defence, fast-moving assertive - Joey Manu's ankle gives mode to the unit of the defence," helium said.

Nine's sideline newsman Danika Mason confirmed Manu volition beryllium sent for scans aft damaging the ligaments successful his ankle. 

Roosters manager Trent Robinson nary uncertainty would've been frustrated with his side's effort successful the archetypal fractional and was successful a temper to isolate himself with the playing radical astatine half-time.

"Robinson asked each of his enactment unit to permission the dressing rooms truthful it was conscionable himself successful there, his adjunct coaches and the players arsenic helium had immoderate stern words to accidental to them," Nine's sideline newsman Danika Mason said.

There was besides confirmation astatine half-time that Jared Waerea-Hargreaves has succumbed to his pectoral wounded and won't instrumentality to the field.