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Penrith Panther ... recruit Lewis Brown stars in trial win over Warriors. Source: Gregg Porteous / News Limited
Penrith second-rower Lewis Brown returned to New Zealand to play a key role in inflicting a second NRL pre-season defeat on former club the Warriors.
The Panthers showed more cohesion in running out convincing 32-18 winners in Hamilton on Saturday, scoring six tries to four.
The Christchurch-born Brown, who joined the Panthers in the summer after four seasons with the Warriors, scored two tries and had a hand in another.
The result made it two wins from two for Penrith, who pipped Wests Tigers in their first trial of the year.
The Warriors have lost both theirs, after they went down to Gold Coast last weekend.
Warriors coach Matthew Elliott said he will look to improve his teams ruck speed before the season begins on March 7.
"We got beaten up on the ground today," Elliott said.
"Their ruck speed as opposed to ours was light years away. We spend a lot of time addressing that. We need to spend more time on it."
Elliott also believed the structure he had given the players had hindered their fluency, but said it was something that was simple to tweak.
"Just the way we were executing it got in the way today," he said.
"It's really easy to address. The guys were good. They were trying to comply with it, but it just hindered us."
Both teams finished with injuries, the seriousness to be confirmed.
Warriors second-rower Ben Henry tweaked an ankle while Panthers halfback Luke Walsh went off in the first half with what coach Ivan Cleary described as an upper thigh injury.
"We hoping it's not too bad, but he'll need a scan and we'll see where it goes," Cleary said.
"That's our biggest worry at the moment."
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Despite the Panthers' convincing win, the Warriors did produce a second-half fight-back with tries to young outside back Ngani Laumape, Kevin Locke and Glen Fisiiahi.
However it was short lived, the Panthers responded with tries to Lachlan Coote and Mansour to ensure they were always comfortably ahead.
The Warriors, fielding many of their frontline players for the first time, made an excellent start.
Shaun Johnson's improvised chip-and-regather was followed by a cross-field kick that Manu Vatuvei chased down to score.
But Brown's double, as well as tries to Mansour and Wes Naiqama, tipped the contest firmly in Penrith's favour.
PENRITH 32 (J Mansour 2 L Brown 2 D Simmons L Coote tries L Walsh 2 W Naiqama B Austin goals) beat WARRIORS 18 (M Vatuvei N Laumape K Locke G Fisiiahi tries S Johnson goal) at Waikato Stadium, Hamilton.
Referee: Henry Perenara, Chris James.
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