Post Match Warriors v Raiders - [Round 12, 2025]

[jonesy101]

We were down a fullback and getting run through. I disagree on first sight but will stand corrected if my viewing of the replay shows TMM is cooked.

Agree. It was such a clean break I don't think any fullback stops Fogarty from scoring.

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Not that fussed. Saw a lot of young fellas get taught a lesson. Saw DWZ get exposed.

 

[snake77]

Well played Canberra.

I thought it was a high quality game for the conditions.

I mentioned our attack in an earlier post but both sides probably came off the field thinking they could have done more with the ball.

Both sides defended well.

I thought our starting front rowers did well early. Just as the game wore on they managed to out muscle us in the middle for some decent periods.

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

I think we need to talk about DWZ.

Bros just not there anymore.

 

[run_it_str8_again]

Not that fussed. Saw a lot of young fellas get taught a lesson. Saw DWZ get exposed.

We need these lessons and it's as fine a time as any to pop any 7-2 balloons with a nice spoonful of reality of winning sustainably. Take your medicine boys.

 

[Bippidydoodah]

Raiders probably deserved to win, but the win might hurt them for the next few weeks.. Tāpine and Starling will probably miss a couple of games. I'm not too disappointed, we'll bounce back, and it's good to see Marata playing well again

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

it's good to see Marata playing well again

Marata is killing it. Love his work at moment.

 

[run_it_str8_again]

I watched Clark being irate and whining. I watched Tapine mocking our softness. I'm sure he even told one of his own blokes to fuck up.

 

[Canonball]

Dirty arse raiders - what a gross little team they have there, sucks to lose to that style of game

 

[Wellington Taniwha]

Tapine bullied us tonight !

Clark stood up to him, but we needed Barney and Fish to own that bike shed bully! He stole our lunch money!

 

[Funky Ed Koosie]

Hope we don't go overboard with criticism here. Without Barney and JFH, that was a very decent effort tonight. I think many of us predicted we'd get steamrolled up front like in Vegas. But if you look at the stats, it was a very even game in terms of meters. We certainly held our own in the middle. In my biased opinion, If either JFH or Barney were out there, I think we are more calm and collected in the critical moments and we close out another win. We certainly had the opportunities to win this towards the end and I thought we finished the stronger side. The winning streak had to come to an end eventually. I'm glad it came in the form of a proud and gritty loss rather than a 40 pt shellacking. That's a performance that a top 4 side dishes out.

Raiders haven't seen the last of us. We'll be meeting them in the finals no doubt.

Yeah, we matched their middles but got destroyed by their outside backs

 

[SouthernWorrier]

Leka killed us with his errors at game turning moments.

Not saying we lost coz of him because I do not believe in that crap, just saying his errors and penalties conceded happened at the worst possible time.

Good loss, I feel fine about it, only lost by a Try and a kick, we were hard to beat by an attacking juggernaut.

We belong in the top four or six teams in this comp off that evidence.

no action on a double headbutt on Leka was interesting, the first one definitely looked intentional.

 

[sydneywarrior92]

We’re not gonna get anywhere this season with the way we’re attacking.
Don’t think we can grind it out all year, we’re gonna get exposed.
We’ve been playing well but feel like we’ve plateaued a little bit and need to make a few key changes to go to the next level. We need a spark at full back that can make something happen out of nothing. Charnze makes metres but doesn’t mean much if we can’t do anything in the 20.

Martin to 7, Metcalf to 6 Roger to Fullback his age is fine look at Teddy.

can you let the CNK thing go? Webby isn't going to change the FB. This game was lost by dumb individual moments that are eminently fixable. No need for wholesale changes.

 

[CWC]

Probably can work on some set plays for desperate times

 

[Po11um]

Well done Canberra raiders

 

[Wrighty]

Leka was a big part of that loss. And even when he wasn't losing the ball he was getting outmuscled in the collisions. Looked like a teenager against men. Hopefully he learns from this. Probably a good game for him to have a nightmare as I am not convinced we would have won even without his mistakes. There was no way we were scoring a try in the second half. Partly due to wet conditions. And partly because it looked like they knew our play book and had studied video on us. They seemed to shift to our shapes even before we got the shapes set ourselves. They weren't much better than us at getting across the stripe either. Hard night in the conditions for point scoring with the dew.

Surely Raiders were off side a lot tonight. Their line speed looked suspicious.

 

[The Warrior Waka]

I think we need to talk about DWZ.

Bros just not there anymore.

True bro ....At least he took plenty of hit ups. Ali & Adam were out there thinking about getting home to watch the new season of Jersey Shore.

 

[run_it_str8_again]

I think we need to talk about DWZ.

Bros just not there anymore.

But Taine is a midget they said. Yeah Taine the ace goal kicker. Back up back up winger.

If DWZ is to stay on, he needs to focus less reps on hair care regimes.

 

[the WARs]

Raiders back 5 just far too good for are lot so we offered nothing out wide .... if only FISH didn't have his dumb play last week think we might have got them he would have been the leader we needed along with Barney ...

Foggy so good for raiders .. our halfs looked headless one diamissional on attack many times... the same old crash run to Niukore ,,,bomb to the corner..

when we hit these A-grade teams Storm-Raiders we just don't have the X-factor attack sadly

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

But Taine is a midget they said. Yeah Taine the ace goal kicker. Back up back up winger.

If DWZ is to stay on, he needs to focus less reps on hair care regimes.

He just hasn't got the punch anymore. I don't know if anyone has talked about that offload in the corner, but it was fucking atrocious.

Atleast RTS was getting some post contact metres in.