The Warriors played a very basic style last night. Thats not a mistake by McFadden, given the dynamo of our attack was out we needed to settle for a bit while Tuimoala Lolohea builds into it.
And it was all working out fine. But boy, some of those defensive plays beggar belief. RFM's attempt on Sam Tagatese was an out and out disgrace. Weak as piss. And then Manu Vatuvei... Manu Manu Manu. The thing that will stop you from being an immortal is you are mentally weak. That defensive play to come off the wing and open up space for Valentine Holmes was ... wow. So so so so bad. And something you have been guilty of your entire career. For someone who contributes so much good to the game and the club in general, those types of errors are schoolboy stuff to the point it nearly eradicates all your mountains of work. The dropped ball which was harder to drop than to catch off that chip bomb, disgraceful stuff at a key time. Of course, you nearly redeemed yourself with a line break that is almost Manu only material.
Sam Tomkins, now is time to prove that that massive pay cheque you are on is fair dinkum. Because lets be fair, to this point it hasn't been. For $750 quid a year you should be a dead set game breaker week in week out. Thats absolutely not what is happening. If there's space thats opened up there's few better in the game at tipping the ball on. But he has no running game. How did this dude have the try scoring record he had at Wigan? He's not that fast. He's weak as piss physically. He doesn't have a flash dummy. Memo to the Warriors, don't buy backs from the ESL again. The game is far too open and blokes don't adjust to this level of defence. He had a fairly poor game IMO. No threat with the ball in hand, that error was abominable, and he got caught in goal because he couldn't be arsed diving to the ground.
Chad Townsend, that lad has checked out big time. Some of his passing was abysmal. Especially the ankle cracker to Tui. Nathan Friend at times was the same. Ken
Maumalo honestly, as much as a good runner he is, he can't throw the ball from dummy half. Two horror passes that killed all momentum.
Such a disappointment, because I thought the basis of our forwards stood up and set up the match to be won. Simon Mannering as always great, Ben Matulino terrific, Charlie Gubb and Sam
Lisone brutal. Sebastine Ikahihifo tought in the middle. Of course Ikahihifo and/or
Lisone/Gubb will be dropped because old mate Cappy loves to bring a bloke in for a game and then drop them back to NSW Cup for a month. No wonder blokes like Ikahihifo want out of this shit hole.
