Post Match Dolphins v Warriors - [Round 23, 2024]

[MrFrankWhite]

Out of interest who is our ones and games played by them?

 

[kos]

Nah but if he kicks the goals we win

Same as bulldogs and raiders game

And conversely if they didn’t leak three tries we win

 

[Worried2Death]

Not only for his kicking, but he’s been deserved the fullback spot for some time now.
As much a soldier Charnze is there’s a reason he was dropped to Reggie’s by the raiders.

I thought that was because of his neck injury and he couldn't make it back in the team and seemed to lose confidence. Unfortunately he's a shadow of last year's form when he was linking up and hitting gaps at speed. Still makes metres though so it's not effort.

 

[BrisbaneWarrior]

CHT & RTS will be better players next year with a proper off season. Neither played last year

 

[Inruin]

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I was going to go with AFB. Which is quite sad really

 

[Aman 2.0]

And conversely if they didn’t leak three tries we win

Nah you don’t get it

 

[Worried2Death]

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This calls for a yikes

 

[kos]

Nah you don’t get it

34/32
Take 12 of the 34
It’s 32/22 to the Warriors
I was at the game
Kosi got smoked. A few times

 

[MrFrankWhite]

This calls for a yikes

A few poor players combined good players playing in poor positions

 

[Wrighty]

Supporting the Warriors is like supporting a First Class cricket team and getting bent of shape because Peter Younghusband couldn't score 7 runs off the last over to win the game. The NRL or maybe it is just the warriors have some pretty poor players.
Watching the Kiwis play league is more enjjoyable.

 

[Noitall]

Crazy that we all thought we were going to the Grand Final this year.

Many picked broncos to win it too

 

[Warriorsfan92]

Marata has been a poor signing. Injuries & suspensions have plagued his warriors career, but regardless, his stats are nothing to write home about.

For a ‘damaging’ backrower, he’s averaging 100m a game, 26 tackles 2 tackle breaks & has scored 1 try playing second row. This hardly exemplifies ‘damaging’.

As a reminder, this guy is on $750k a year.

 

[Worried2Death]

Supporting the Warriors is like supporting a First Class cricket team and getting bent of shape because Peter Younghusband couldn't score 7 runs off the last over to win the game. T

Not sure if that's a real person, but can he kick field goals?

 

[run_it_str8_again]

Bro I had a thought about that today after a commentator comment. I have a feeling we dominate every stat bar line breaks. I just checked, not 1 player in the top 25. Zero X factor

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Yeah it's a trade off we've made and I think a sign of the state of the game. We've traditionally had X factor in spades eg

Lauiti'iti
SJ
SJ
Toopi
Wade McKinnon
Probably heaps more.

But we've been lacking in all those things we can do now such as field position, possession, time in opposition 20, Now we do those things but lack X factor. Gotta get it all in sync at the same time for an entire season. It hurt watching Herbie scorch away knowing we plod in those situations.

 

[BigUCE]

Marata has been a poor signing. Injuries & suspensions have plagued his warriors career, but regardless, his stats are nothing to write home about.

For a ‘damaging’ backrower, he’s averaging 100m a game, 26 tackles 2 tackle breaks & has scored 1 try playing second row. This hardly exemplifies ‘damaging’.

As a reminder, this guy is on $750k a year.

Very underwhelming time he’s had at the club. I’m hoping one of the young fellas has a massive pre-season and takes his starting position on the edge, so he can move into an impact role of the bench.

 

[JaggedJ]

Crazy that we all thought we were going to the Grand Final this year.

Didn't think that for a second.

Oddly enough I think this year brings us closer to that goal, but there was a lot of over hyping earlier in the year.

 

[Wrighty]

Not sure if that's a real person, but can he kick field goals?

He's about as good as say fringe first grade NRL player except plays cricket if that makes sense

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I have been taking the NRL way too seriously as a competition based on the standard of play I witnessed today, mostly from the Warriors fringe players, but also some of the Dolphins.
The NRL is not a high standard at all. Out of 17 guys 12 will be good and 5 weak.

Kosi at time today was diabolical. But no one cares as we have seen it all before and this is the NRL so it is to be expected.
Ali's edge went MIA on a few clean line breaks. No one cares except maybe Webster who benched Sifakula 8 seconds later.
The only real game changing play CNK did all match was attempting to milk a penalty apart from that he was pretty ordinary.
I feel like I have had rose coloured glasses on until now.
The NRL is not a good standard of play as the salary cap only allows you to get 20 good players yet you end up using over 30 by the end of the season.
In the NPC - not super rugby - just NPC you would never ever see goal kicking like what CHT put out there tonight. But that's ok because a) its the NRL b) because reasons. No self respecting NPC team would put a team on the field without a good goal kicker. But league is different. We are ok to put the 17 best players on the field even if none of them is a kicker and make do with some hack like Jordan Rapana. The NRL does not respect the importance of having someone in the team just to kick goals.
I am dialing down my expectations from here on in.

 

[JaggedJ]

Yeah it's a trade off we've made and I think a sign of the state of the game. We've traditionally had X factor in spades eg

Lauiti'iti
SJ
SJ
Toopi
Wade McKinnon
Probably heaps more.

But we've been lacking in all those things we can do now such as field position, possession, time in opposition 20, Now we do those things but lack X factor. Gotta get it all in sync at the same time for an entire season. It hurt watching Herbie scorch away knowing we plod in those situations.

Our grand final teams were a mixture of x-factor and good solid grafters.

2002
Jones
Ali
Marsh
Toopi
Meli

2011
SJ
Locke
Mateo
Vatuvei
Inu

Got the grafters, just need that talent to come through

 

[run_it_str8_again]

Didn't think that for a second.

Oddly enough I think this year brings us closer to that goal, but there was a lot of over hyping earlier in the year.

Last year our model of play came undone against a younger faster stronger Broncos who shat on us by sprint pacing and we couldn't hang with them.

We have not gotten any faster. Younger perhaps with development players but still not Herbie Farnworth fast

 

[run_it_str8_again]

Bro I had a thought about that today after a commentator comment. I have a feeling we dominate every stat bar line breaks. I just checked, not 1 player in the top 25. Zero X factor

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But yeah these are the type of metrics that drive our improvement once identified. Its a game of inches these days and X factor is an important weapon