The second half fails are legendary at the Warriors and they predate
Kearney.
We hold the record for most 18 point leads conceded.
As such you could argue
Kearney is having limited impact.
He certainly has not solved the second half struggles.
How is it that our team can open a game and look like Minor prems....then come out of the half time dressing sheds and play like the worst of the worst in the comp ?
What
Kearney is achieving is an eighty minute defensive mindset.
That is gaining him respectable performances yet his team languishes in the lower eight.
Clearly the problems are complex.
My suspicions are that the Warriors are well prepared by coaches which is how you get the dominant starts to games .
Thereafter there is a horrible mental problem.....for example....when we are 18 ahead....our type of player adopts a false confidence......they assume they have some breathing room.
There is no breathing room in the NRL.
If u humiliate an NRL team with an 18 point lead.....they will come for you....they will have all the motivation in the world to go up several gears.
The Warriors are like a boxer who knocks down his opponent then gets intimidated when the other bloke gets back to his feet and starts hurting you.
The best thing
Kearney offers is a very simple idea.
Tackle you win.
Hold the ball you win.
That's all
SK is doing when we hear this Wank language 'Processes'......'giving ourselves an opportunity to win'.....
And in the case of the epic Defence against the Roisters 'finding a way to win'.
Kearney has no magic solution.
He does have a mindset which will change the way the Warriors play long term.
Will the players buy in ?
Yes....this lot will coz most of them are Kiwi internationals. Mind u there will be some dissenters ( Matulino signs with Tigpies).
Are this lot capable of forming
Kearney's Army ?
I would have had question marks up until the watershed victory over the Roosters.
As
Kearney identified.....we eon because we tackled and waited for a chance.
So take another look at the first half versus 2nd half Warriors.....
Both Warrior incarnations have consistency in defence.
That's
Kearney.