The Orange United Warriors centre scored two tries and had an after-the-siren shot to win the game with the scores locked at 30-all following a Will Lucas try at the death.

With a barrage of 'advice' from the Bears faithful ringing in his ears, he stepped up and pushed his kick wide as the sides shared the points.

It was an end-to-end affair with the Warriors racing out to a 10-0 lead before Blayney got a roll on, only for the visitors to strike back with two late tries.

Moments after his tricky conversion attempt, O'Neill, who was lured out of retirement by brother and coach Willie Wright, was full of praise for his side's character.

"Absolutely crazy," he said.

"Full credit to Blayney of course to have the lead but even more credit to us boys, we stayed in the fight.

"I'm used to it [the heckling].

"I kicked goals before I retired but I don't know about that kick. That was a bit wayward."

Orange got off to the perfect start, splitting the Blayney defence open twice in quick succession.

A couple of penalties gave the Bears some decent field position however and despite looking well off the pace, the home side soon found themselves level courtesy of dummy half efforts from Jack Thorncraft and Ben Pettit.

Max Ryan made it 16-10 to the Bears on the stroke of half-time and then 18-10 thanks to a penalty goal.

Things went from bad to worse for the Warriors with Lucas being sent to the sin bin for a shoulder charge.

Two tackles later they gave away another penalty for a swinging arm and moments after, Bears halfback Will Cramp stepped through some tired defenders to score.

O'Neill then scored his first to reduce the gap to 22-16, one of two Warriors tries in quick succession.

The Bears lost Nathan Neuenhaus for 10 minutes after an infringement but made the most of an unforced Warriors mistake to extend the margin and seemingly put the game beyond doubt only for O'Neill to nab his second with five minutes to go.

Lucas then punctured the Bears defence with 40 seconds on the clock to make it 30-all.

O'Neill said they had to dig themselves out of a hole with 12 men.

"We kept pushing and worked hard, made it hard for ourselves, but worked hard to finally come back.

"When he got sent the word was to play tough. Not take that backward step but then also play smart off the back of it."

The former Wagga Brothers player said he was looking forward to sharing the field with his brother for the first time but admitted he would need some time to recover.

"The body is feeling it," he said.

"I'll feel it tomorrow.

"He asked for me to come back and I haven't had a year with him so it will be good."

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