Warriors star faces ban after sin bin carnage

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Warriors guardant Mitch Barnett faces a week connected the sidelines, portion teammate Marata Niukore was deed with a good aft some players were sent to the misdeed bin during the Warriors triumph implicit Canberra connected Friday night.

Barnett was binned for a precocious changeable connected Raider Jordan Rapana and slugged with a people 2 charge, which means helium tin bull a 1 lucifer prohibition with an aboriginal blameworthy plea oregon 2 matches if helium fights the complaint and is recovered blameworthy astatine the judiciary.

Meatime, Niukore was charged with a careless precocious tackle, and faces a $3000 good owed to it being his 3rd and consequent offence.

If Niukore fights the complaint astatine the judiciary and loses past he'll bull a two-match ban.

Jack Wighton managed to enactment connected the tract aft this hit. (Kayo)

Raiders five-eighth Jack Wighton was besides charged with a careless precocious tackle and volition beryllium fined $3000 with an aboriginal blameworthy plea, portion teammate Albert Hopoate faces a $1000 good for contrary behaviour if helium enters an aboriginal blameworthy plea.

The Warriors cruised to triumph astatine GIO Stadium with a 36-14 triumph acknowledgment to a Shaun Johnson masterclass, who suffered an wounded precocious successful the lucifer during different caput clash.

In Jarrod Croker's 300th match, Wighton was archetypal to people successful the 21st infinitesimal earlier Barnett was misdeed binned lone moments later.

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The incidental seemed to spur connected the Warriors though with Dallin Watene-Zelezniak scoring a spectacular one-handed effort successful the 31st minute.

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A punishment extremity acknowledgment to a propulsion and shove betwixt Watene-Zelezniak and Corey Horsburgh put the Raiders up 8-6 astatine half-time.

From determination it was each the Warriors with former Raider Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad, Tom Ale, Luke Metcalf and Wayde Egan each scoring to marque it 30-8. Egan's effort came aft Johnson near the tract owed to a gruesome caput sound with Elliott Whitehead.

Marata Niukore was misdeed binned aft this hit. (Kayo)

Josh Papali'i would people a consolation effort precocious successful the crippled with Niukore minutes earlier owed to his tackle connected Rapana.

The Warriors had the past laughter though, with a bizarre walk from Sebastian Kris from the footwear disconnected uncovering Johnson - who had returned to the tract - with the halfback intercepting and scoring to seal a 36-14 victory.

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