NRL Round Discussion NRL Round 2 2025 Discussion

[Mr Drag]

Go back to the Warriors!

I love misery, I seek it out! That's how I found this place!

 

[CWC]

Highest kick regather ever from Fogerty

 

[sydneywarrior92]

Walsh is a massive risk taker which ultimately means he can be both a game breaker and a game destroyer. Sadly tonight he is the latter. But I wouldn't be surprised if he goes out there next week and scores a hatrick against the hapless cows next week. Broncos forumers have really short memories, they'll be loving him again this time next week.

 

[roguei]

So both teams that put 50 on another team lost in round 2... Also damn it feels good! Not only do we win as underdogs, this game also shows that our loss in vegas wasn't to a "avarage" team.

 

[Canonball]

I'm an economist by trade, so I don't like to draw any conclusions until we have a reasonable sample size. Dolphins were topping the comp in the early rounds and were still in the four at the beginning of the origin period last year I believe. Titans were 0 from 6 before showing some good form towards the end of last year. I am by no means understating the Raider's great start to the year- they are my 2nd favorite team actually. But I just don't think we can make evaluations on who are contenders, pretenders, wooden spooners until at least the start of the origin period.

They look pretty good to me, relentless through the middle and with the personnel to sustain it - understand what you're saying but they've got to be the form team until otherwise

 

[CWC]

Would be funny if manly destroys raiders next week

 

[sydneywarrior92]

Would be funny if manly destroys raiders next week

that would be some feat if they are going to be without DCE and Turbo. But it wouldn't surprise me given how bipolar manly are.

 

[CWC]

that would be some feat if they are going to be without DCE and Turbo. But it wouldn't surprise me given how bipolar manly are.

DCE said he should be fine next week so at least they’ve got one available

 

[Makasene]

Things are kicking off in Cowboy Land.

Peyton OUT! Is the call.

Gone by Blueys round they reckon

 

[BrisbaneWarrior]

Sticky hates NZ and the Warriors.

It really sank in at the RLWC 2008 final. Also his career ended with a broken leg at Mt Smart

 

[John Nick]

it just goes to show that transitivity doesn't apply to the NRL. No two NRL games are the same. If you don't turn up physically, you aren't beating any team in this comp, no matter the previous standing of the teams coming into the match.

Never a truer word spoken

 

[MrFrankWhite]

I'm an economist by trade, so I don't like to draw any conclusions until we have a reasonable sample size. Dolphins were topping the comp in the early rounds and were still in the four at the beginning of the origin period last year I believe. Titans were 0 from 6 before showing some good form towards the end of last year. I am by no means understating the Raider's great start to the year- they are my 2nd favorite team actually. But I just don't think we can make evaluations on who are contenders, pretenders, wooden spooners until at least the start of the origin period.

But sports isnt a field where you can just wait for more data points to increase the sample size. You get what, 25 games a season? We have already played 8% of our games.

We can’t accurately predict who will win the comp sure, but we can certainly make evaluations on a game by game basis.

Not to say those evaluations won’t be wildly inaccurate in the long run

 

[tyrael]

Things are kicking off in Cowboy Land.

Peyton OUT! Is the call.

Gone by Blueys round they reckon

Who takes over? Brad Arthur?

 

[Inruin]

But sports isnt a field where you can just wait for more data points to increase the sample size. You get what, 25 games a season? We have already played 8% of our games.

We can’t accurately predict who will win the comp sure, but we can certainly make evaluations on a game by game basis.

Not to say those evaluations won’t be wildly inaccurate in the long run

Or the short term

 

[Makasene]

Who takes over? Brad Arthur?

Plenty of support for Josh Hannay who is a former cowboy and been close to nabbing a head coaching role a couple of times.

Also talk of Justin Morgan for the rest of the season.

 

[sup42]

Also talk of Justin Morgan for the rest of the season.

In other words they are fugged.

Stampede forum have been sacking Toddy since he got there....well he did have a brief honey moon for a season and a half...sound familiar?

 

[BrisbaneWarrior]

With raiders taking care of the Broncos so convincingly, it doesn’t make Vegas seem as bad. Perhaps the players were treating it as a working holiday. I’ve been away on work in other cities “working” and there’s not much work going on

 

[Tookey 2.0]

With raiders taking care of the Broncos so convincingly, it doesn’t make Vegas seem as bad. Perhaps the players were treating it as a working holiday. I’ve been away on work in other cities “working” and there’s not much work going on

Made me lol, deffo been there haha.

Question - do you think if we played as good in the game against Manly against the Raiders in Vegas we would have won?

They've looked pretty solid, but I thought both teams (us and Broncs) looked pretty poor and made a heap of errors that the Raiders capitilised on

 

[John Nick]

Well 1 from 5 so far

Big upsets from the Warriors and Roosters haven't helped my cause and the Dragons shitting the bed. I should have picked the knights though. Always plenty of upsets in the first 6 rounds.

Easy to be a critic after the fact. @BangBro's (still banging) the only one to make a call before the game was played and it was the right one.

Three games to go. And just like the Warriors there is always the possibility of redemption next week.

Tbf. Every season for ever we have seen upsets in the early rounds. Tipping is a trap for all.
Previous years form means very little

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Made me lol, deffo been there haha.

Question - do you think if we played as good in the game against Manly against the Raiders in Vegas we would have won?

They've looked pretty solid, but I thought both teams (us and Broncs) looked pretty poor and made a heap of errors that the Raiders capitilised on

After 2 games now I think we were 100% ambushed and the 2025 Raiders were a bad team for us to draw first up. As others have posted, they start the season hard and fast and this year its a level up. I think a lot of people have forgotten that in their analysis, myself included.

I think the Broncos made the mistake of thinking that it didn't mean anything because beating the Warriors isn't much to write home about. So in the end they got ambushed too.