19m agoFri 18 Oct 2024 at 7:17am
Live: Jillaroos vs PNG Orchids in Pacific Championships
1st half: Australia 16-0 Papua New Guinea1m agoFri 18 Oct 2024 at 7:35am
24′ It’s about to get ugly as the Orchids cop a sin-bin
Julia Robinson continues her impressive outing with a strong run, earning the penalty. She takes a quick tap and Roswita Kapo just grabs her from a metre away.
Belinda Sharpe has no choice but to send the Orchids number 14 for a 10-minute break.
4m agoFri 18 Oct 2024 at 7:32am
Looking lopsided
Hello Jon, I hope the result is a bit closer than the last time the Orchids met the Jillaroos…
– Mike
Hey Mike,
Look, I’m not expecting a close game, but I don’t think it’ll be quite as bad as the 82-0 demo job from the 2022 World Cup semi.
7m agoFri 18 Oct 2024 at 7:29am
That’s two for number two
Julia Robinson goes in again in almost identical circumstances as her last one, just putting it through the hands and out-pacing and out-classing the defence.
Five-eight Sera Koroi was playing the three-in defender for the Orchids and she just doesn’t have the lateral speed to stay with Aiken and Upton. That’s how the overlap is being created so easily every time.
10m agoFri 18 Oct 2024 at 7:26am
Easy as you like for Julia Robinson
Qunicy Dodd breaks through the middle and earns a repeat set for the Jillaroos, so they can get into their work.
They’re lining up to the left and just put it through the hands with Tamike Upton giving early ball to Isabelle Kelly, who unleashes Julia Robinson to dive over in the corner.
And Tarryn Aiken slots from the sideline! Not bad for the second-choice kicker.
13m agoFri 18 Oct 2024 at 7:24am
14′ Tarryn Aiken is having a shocker to start
She’s dropped two balls already on short-side raids, and now she’s launched a cut-out ball to absolutely no-one on the right.
Even if Jakiya Whitfeld was Usain Bolt, I’m pretty sure that pass would’ve been called forward anyway.
14m agoFri 18 Oct 2024 at 7:22am
12′ PNG build some pressure … and relieve it
A penalty conceded by Shannon Mato in the middle of the field puts the Orchids on the attack and this time PNG gets to its kick, with halfback Delailah Ahose grubbering in and almost bamboozling Tamika Upton with the bounce.
She reins it in, but gets swarmed in the in-goal.
But Ahose’s knocked on straight off the goal-line dropout.
20m agoFri 18 Oct 2024 at 7:16am
The Jillaroos break them open!
There’s nothing on in the middle of the park, but winger Julia Robinson puts a little bit of a jinking run together, stands up prop Essay Banu and lock Gloria Kaupa and bursts into the back-field.
Looming up on the outside is, of course, Tamika Upton, who dives in under the posts.
22m agoFri 18 Oct 2024 at 7:14am
5′ Orchids miss their chance
PNG gets a penalty to put them deep in Aussie territory and look to have them shot to bits out on the left, but Elsie Albert, as is her wont, tucks it under the arm and takes the hit-up.
Prop partner Essay Banu follows up with another hit-up, apparently not realising it was the last.
First points there would’ve made things interesting.
25m agoFri 18 Oct 2024 at 7:11am
3′ Qunicy Dodd bombs a try on debut!
The grubber in behind from Tarryn Aiken is perfectly weighted and pops up for hooker Quincy Dodd, who reels the ball in, but can’t bring it to ground securely.
Almost the perfect start for the first-gamer.
27m agoFri 18 Oct 2024 at 7:09am
1′ Almost a disaster for PNG
Tarryn Aiken’s bomb is allowed to bounce right on the tryline by fullback Mala Mark, and it evades her and Freda Waula. Jakiya Whitfeld almost gets through to ground it just before the dead-ball line, but Mark eventually toes it dead.
The pressure stays on with a goal-line dropout.
29m agoFri 18 Oct 2024 at 7:07am
1′ The Orchids kick off
Emily Veivers launches a twisting kick off and Tamika Upton fields it on the bounce, finding former Broncos and Knights teammate Millie Elliott for the first hit-up of the game.
31m agoFri 18 Oct 2024 at 7:05am
The anthems are done
A couple of bloody good renditions too. And there’s nothing left to do now but play some footy.
36m agoFri 18 Oct 2024 at 7:00am
Simaima Taufa leads out the Jillaroos
No, Simaima Taufa is not captaining the Australian women’s side (that’s still Kezie Apps) but the veteran lock is playing her 15th Test.
Jagera man Ashley Ruska delivers the Welcome to Country (which, for those of you confused, is a welcome to his people’s part of the country, not “welcome to Australia”).
41m agoFri 18 Oct 2024 at 6:55am
When does the Jillaroos game kick off?
G’day Mark,
For those of you wondering when the Jillaroos and PNG Orchids kick off, we’re just 10 minutes out.
The Jillaroos game starts at 6:05pm AEDT, while the Kangaroos and Tonga are set to hit the field at 8:10pm.
52m agoFri 18 Oct 2024 at 6:44am
Ali Brigginshaw ruled out
Australia’s superstar playmaker and captain, Ali Brigginshaw, is out of this evening’s game as she recovers from a broken finger.
Her absence sees Tiana Penitani move from the centres to five-eighth, alongside Tarryn Aiken, with veteran Jess Sergis stepping into the centres in jersey number 18.
Brigginshaw was player of the match in the 2022 World Cup finals and has been a mainstay for the Jillaroos for the past decade.
Coach Brad Donald tells Fox she could have played after hand surgery at the end of the NRLW season, but they’re going to hold her back for later in the tournament.
Penitani, meanwhile, is an out-and-out outside back, so we’ll see how she goes in the halves but expect Karyn Murphy medallist Aiken to take the reins.
Meanwhile, hooker Quincy Dodd and bench forwards Sarah Togatuki and Olivia Higgins have been named to make their debuts.
1h agoFri 18 Oct 2024 at 6:32am
The Pacific Championships are here!
Don’t hang up that footy gear just yet, it’s international season and we’re kicking off the Pacific Championships this evening.
The Jillaroos are first up against PNG before the Kangaroos hunt revenge against a highly rated Tonga side.
I’m Jon Healy and I’ll take you through all tonight’s action as it happens.
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