General 2017 Warriors Trial Matches

[kabkram]

Roger Tuivasa-Sheck returns for Storm trial
Richard Becht | Image: www.warriors.kiwi

Tue 7th February, 04:10PM

VODAFONE WARRIORS v MELBOURNE STORM
Sunshine Coast Stadium, Kawana Waters

5.00pm, Saturday, February 11


VODAFONE WARRIORS

ROGER TUIVASA-SHECK (c)

BUNTY AFOA

MATTHEW ALLWOOD

BLAKE AYSHFORD

JAMES BELL

ERIN CLARK

DAVID Fusitua

CHARLIE GUBB

ATA HINGANO

RYAN HOFFMAN

SHAUN JOHNSON

SOLOMONE KATA

MASON LINO

TUIMOALA LOLOHEA

KEN MAUMALO

OFAHIKI OGDEN

ISAIAH PAPALII

JUNIOR PAUGA

PAT SIPLEY

TOAFOFOA SIPLEY

LEWIS SOOSEMEA

JAZZ TEVAGA

ALBERT VETE

Oh dog so basically a forwardless squad oh happy days

 

[kabkram]

After all the talk about the fiasco that was last years trial game in Nelson, after watching the interview with SK stating how disappointed he was in the nines results and his surprise that the players were obviously not as far along as he thought they were which after 15 weeks of preseason is pretty bloody scary, and with only two trial games before the season starts the first squad is named with count them only 1 starting forward in the 26, how does that build confidence, how does that build combinations. It almost looks like the kiwis build up to last years 4 nations where in our attempt to keep the powder dry we didn't even take on to the park.
At least that was only a month long tournament not the torture that could be a repeat of 2016.
Dammit I know it's only preseason jitters but I'm not sure whether it's better to be pessimistic or optimistic for the season to come, but one more season like the previous 6 could almost toll the death knell for this warriors fan

 

[bruce]

After all the talk about the fiasco that was last years trial game in Nelson, after watching the interview with SK stating how disappointed he was in the nines results and his surprise that the players were obviously not as far along as he thought they were which after 15 weeks of preseason is pretty bloody scary, and with only two trial games before the season starts the first squad is named with count them only 1 starting forward in the 26, how does that build confidence, how does that build combinations. It almost looks like the kiwis build up to last years 4 nations where in our attempt to keep the powder dry we didn't even take on to the park.
At least that was only a month long tournament not the torture that could be a repeat of 2016.
Dammit I know it's only preseason jitters but I'm not sure whether it's better to be pessimistic or optimistic for the season to come, but one more season like the previous 6 could almost toll the death knell for this warriors fan

I am one who keeps mentioning the Nelson debacle, but for all that if the team had then won even half of its golden points they would have made the eight. They were not far off the pace.

So could that mean we have a reasonable squad but a shite club? Ivan Cleary proved that theory wrong, so maybe it is the coach after all. SK is a meticulous planner, the nines were never in his sights, but surely he cannot accept revolving door defence in the trials. Please no

 

[Miket12]

I think you'll probably find SK is following the preseason game plan from last year when a team which was mainly fringe nrl players and lower who played the first game while the second game team was closer to the FG side. Personally, I wouldn't be reading to much into the team to play the Storm and which players haven't been named.

 

[kabkram]

I am one who keeps mentioning the Nelson debacle, but for all that if the team had then won even half of its golden points they would have made the eight. They were not far off the pace.

So could that mean we have a reasonable squad but a shite club? Ivan Cleary proved that theory wrong, so maybe it is the coach after all. SK is a meticulous planner, the nines were never in his sights, but surely he cannot accept revolving door defence in the trials. Please no

Oh man I hope its coach and I hope we've now got the right one because there ain't been much change to squad, and until KF is registered one might say we're a little weaker albeit with some youngsters with a season under their belt.

 

[mrblonde]

I think you'll probably find SK is following the preseason game plan from last year when a team which was mainly fringe nrl players and lower who played the first game while the second game team was closer to the FG side. Personally, I wouldn't be reading to much into the team to play the Storm and which players haven't been named.

Do we know if it's a 4 quarter/unlimited interchange deal? ie what the game rules are. Your argument would make more sense if the rules around the game were more relaxed than "80 Minutes split into 2 40 Minute halves and 8 Interchanges"...

Let us not forget 2009 the year we won all the trials and our opening two matches. I know there was a lot going bad behind the scenes, but the way the team started 2009 it looked like we was finals bound for the third consecutive year.

 

[Navigator]

Oh dog so basically a forwardless squad oh happy days

Well we are looking at 36 dec on Saturday maybe SK is planning on running the storm forwards flat till they drop......lol

 

[Tonbridge (Swanley)]

Call me old fashioned, but the result is not important, it will be how they play and the effort put it that I will be looking at.

 

[Waiting For Premiership]

If we get totally screwed by the Storm.... Can we have a poll for a new coach ?

 

[bruce]

Call me old fashioned, but the result is not important, it will be how they play and the effort put it that I will be looking at.

Just like Nelson last year? Winning trials means nothing, losing badly means a lot.

 

[Tonbridge (Swanley)]

Just like Nelson last year? Winning trials means nothing, losing badly means a lot.

losing badly reflects attitude.....it if it's a by 10-20 points, in 35 degree heat, I'm not fussed about this. Our last trail is important. this one sets us up for Round One....

 

[Miket12]

Very few people care about how a second string trial team beat a third string Titians team in Whangarei last year but everyone remembers what happened in Nelson.

I just don't think its right to judge the season, or SK as a coach, based on this week's results - next week will give us a far better indication on his direction and the teams progress.

 

[bruce]

Very few people care about how a second string trial team beat a third string Titians team in Whangarei last year but everyone remembers what happened in Nelson.

I just don't think its right to judge the season, or SK as a coach, based on this week's results - next week will give us a far better indication on his direction and the teams progress.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11797576
NRL: Nines disappointment a real 'eye-opener' - Stephen Kearney
Warriors coach Stephen Kearney is unimpressed by what he saw of his new team at the Auckland Nines and is demanding better from two NRL trial matches.

The nines might be regarded by some teams as an inconvenient early-season hit- out in which emerging injury-free is the first priority.

That wasn't the attitude of Kearney, who criticised his players for ignoring the basics on the way to three losses.

"It was a little bit disappointing for us and I made the boys fairly aware of that," Kearney said.

"We worked pretty hard all pre-season to attack a certain way and defend a certain way. It didn't look like how we'd spent 15 weeks of pre-season.

"We weren't quite as far ahead as I thought we were. It was a real eye-opener for me."
Kearney is demanding better in trial matches against the Melbourne Storm on the Sunshine Coast on Saturday and against Gold Coast in Palmerston North eight days later.

He is most keenly watching the performance of promising front-rowers Bunty Afoa and Toafofoa Sipley.

With Ben Matulino to miss the opening rounds with a knee injury and fellow- veteran prop Jacob Lillyman still favouring a hamstring niggle, the young pair will need to improve on their nines efforts at Eden Park, Kearney said.

"It's important to get some quality time out there on the back of a disappointing nines that those two, in particular, had. I was expecting a bit more."

Playmaker Shaun Johnson is fit to face the Storm after sitting out the nines with a groin strain.

Kearney hit back at suggestions he had asked Johnson not to play the nines to keep his key asset in cotton wool.

"Players know their bodies the best. Shaun felt he wasn't 100 per cent."

Well bugger me. Even the coach cannot explain how these guys do it.

It can't have been the heat, the Aussies had the same problem. If I had to guess it was attitude towards pressure. Our guys don't like being spoke to harshly, it must put them under too much pressure. So when they get into the pressure and speed of first grade their brains go to mush.

I am not giving up on SK yet, he can only work with what the club has given him.

 

[Gizzyfan]

Looking at that squad is it possible they are going to play Maumalo in 2nd Row.

 

[mt.wellington]

Storm vs Warriors trial will be streamed tomorrow. Live stream will start in the box below when the trial starts...

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[eudebrito]

Storm vs Warriors trial will be streamed tomorrow. Live stream will start in the box below when the trial starts...

awesome, thanks for adding the link.

but must try not to overreact to a first trial

 

[kiwileaguefan]

Looks like the Warriors vs Titans game is close to a sell out down here...so thats over 12,000

 

[diehard]

So it's 8PM NZ time, right?

 

[mt.wellington]

So it's 8PM NZ time, right?

Yep. Stream will start just before then...

 

[mt.wellington]

Spoke with a mate who went to the Warriors last training run at Sunshine Stadium. Said it was stinking hot and the heat will be a huge factor tomorrow. Shaun Johnson was running free and in sublime form cutting the defence apart...