Post Match NRL 2020 - Round 4 - Panthers vs Warriors Post Match Discussion

[mt.wellington]

NRL 2020 - Round 4 - Panthers vs Warriors Post Match Discussion
Penrith Panthers vs New Zealand Warriors
Campbelltown Stadium, Sydney

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Thread to share your thoughts on the Round 4 game between the New Zealand Warriors and Penrith Panthers after the match. Name your Man of the Match, discuss the coach, captain, starting team, bench, opposition, game tactics, substitutions, errors (or lack thereof), penalties (or lack thereof) highs, lows, refs etc.

Dont forget to rate the players... https://nzwarriors.com/matches/nrl-2020-r4.26/

 

[Diesel]

Take out the Dragons game and we are averaging 2 points a game

 

[Wigan Warrior]

Take out the Dragons game and we are averaging 2 points a game

Unfortunately not on the board that matters

 

[Wellington Warrior]

I guess the dragons are a really shitty side....

 

[tajhay]

Take out the Dragons game and we are averaging 2 points a game

Take out the Dragons game and we haven't scored a real try all season.

 

[Wigan Warrior]

I don't think I've ever seen a side be as "chalk and cheese" as the Warriors. One week they go 43/45 and could have given anyone a game, the next week they don't look like scoring.

 

[JaggedJ]

Didn't renew Kayo because fuck paying money to watch this team.

If Kearney remains coach next year I'll be taking a year off completely.

The guy is so far behind the times he thinks speed is a brand new Keanu Reeves movie.

 

[tajhay]

I don't think I've ever seen a side be as "chalk and cheese" as the Warriors. One week they go 43/45 and could have given anyone a game, the next week they don't look like scoring.

Most NRL teams would have still beaten us last week.

 

[Afakasi247]

2 out of the 5 Penrith tries came from what they Solely created.

3 came off the result of our errors - those 3 in the first half.

We were pinged all night by the refs - whereas Penrith have got away with some infringements similar to what we got done for.

Obviously as the game went on, when the chips went against us our effort weaned.

We don’t have enough game changein our back line to open the game up where we stuck in our own half.

We struggled for territory in this game - and when it came it was too late.

Our halves as a combination are crap - Green is slow and his kicking game is shit, Niko just can’t inject himself.

Theres no speed in our back line - we have a centre on the wing who struggled under the high ball all night.

The one back who found some space died with the fucken ball.

3 of the 5 first choice back5 are unavailable.

Our forwards are decent. So all this who-haaa about needing more towards due to the injury toll - we need more dynamic outside backs and better halves.

Tonight was a combination of refs, errors at the wrong time and a lack of creativity out of our own half to counter that - when mixed together as it was tonight, it created a shit show.

 

[Fonzies Tram Line]

fark, we does one start lol.

- Sack the attacking coach.
- Need to bring in Chanel Harris-Tavita (drop green)
- Katoa is a beast, but he stood out to me in the trials because he had a controlled offload, looks like he's been told to not even free the arm.
- What's the lates with Roache? as glass as he is, we need his runs from DH

 

[Rizzah]

D for defence. We held out pretty well, I thought, with the weight of possession in the first half. No attacking game to speak of - never looked like scoring.
Too many errors too.
New rules really gas the teams with the weak rosters - I expect opposition to run up cricket scores in the future.

 

[Stalefish540]

You couldn't pay Nikorima to run the ball. No really we tried with about 600k, he just wouldn't do it.

 

[wizards rage]

Take out the Dragons game and we haven't scored a real try all season.

That try in the corner would have been given to any other team.

 

[Wananga Kingi]

Next weeks team lol

Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
Maumalo
Hiku
Herbert
Beale/Tu?
Nikorima
Chanel Harris-Tavita
Jamayne Tounua-Brown
Lawton
Blair
Katoa
Curran
Harris

Roache?
Faamausili
Paasi
Ale

Nikorima and Chanel Harris-Tavita will offer more in attack, give Curran and ale a crack, Roache first choice hooker when he’s healthy

 

[davo]

A group of very ordinary performers , saying that more honest than other Warrior teams that have preceded them. No star performers in attack with Green woeful and an overall lack of craft and speed. Too many injuries and a lack of quality. Coach sucks !

 

[drunk_monk]

I know we are shit, but we should lose because we suck and that reason alone.

Reffing seemed to over compensate for a reasonably neutral affair last weekend.

My wife who has never watched a game said "I can't believe how blatant and unfair the referee was. No wonder you're always grumpy"

 

[tajhay]

You couldn't pay Nikorima to run the ball. No really we tried with about 600k, he just wouldn't do it.

Because he is not a half. And to think Kearney said he was courting him a year earlier than he joined.

Our Roster is fucked.

 

[The Falcon]

Ok, short and sharp,
Our Halves currently have a skill of not being able to put players through a gap.
Pompey unfortunately offers neither speed or menace
Hats off to Herbert he really dug in after two horrors under the high ball. Faumasilli looked good.
We are a magician in the halves and a dynamic centre with speed away from the team we all want.

 

[Fonzies Tram Line]

That try in the corner would have been given to any other team.

Here bro, you can have the try...

now what? lol

 

[Wigan Warrior]

Most NRL teams would have still beaten us last week.

Quite possibly, but it wouldn't have been by 20+ points like the 3 defeats so far have been.