Pick Your Team Warriors v Tigers - [Round 19, 2025]

[John Nick]

Yeah I kinda agree. Metcalf was going great, but when you look at it, what was he actually doing well specifically?

Try assists? Not bad, but nothing miraculous.
Short kicking game? Not bad, but fairly middle of the road for an NRL half (last few weeks this looked to be improving).
Long kicking game? I would say below average for NRL level halves.
Goal kicking? Below average for an NRL half
Scoring tries? Above average for an NRL half.
Defence? About average for an NRL half

Metcalf was certainly growing as a half as the year went on, but overall as an NRL half he wasn't actually killing it in one particular area of his game. I feel that well lose a lot of his off the cuff play - his pace, his support play and his vision at times, but we'll also gain a shit load from Boyd leading us around, particularly with his kicking game and goal kicking.

I feel like with Metcalf, we were always kind of waiting for him to do something, or create for others, whereas Tannah will get us to the right parts of the field and give our players opportunity to compete, but I think we'll need our other attacking weapons to finish it off once we're in the red zone

First things first we need our forwards to dominate. That's only gotten harder without Mitch.
Everything starts up front and it's going to be even more important when Boyd goes to 7. That's who I presume/prefer takes over

 

[Dannevegas]

We need to use Leka better, he’s one of the best tackle busters I’ve seen ever. Look at how Knights use Lucas, if he’s not getting put through holes they give him a lot of early ball to work with and he’s killing it.
A lot of it has to do with defences marking up on him I know, as he’s always got 3-4 players waiting for him.
But I would just like to see him get plenty of early ball in space.
Also hope webby isn’t holding him back, give him the licence to do what ever he wants, Run, Step, Offload

 

[roguei]

The problem was we were relying on Metcalf to make something from nothing BECAUSE our attacking weapons (wingers and second rowers) weren’t being set up.

It’s criminal that Leka and DWZ aren’t being put into holes. They are point scoring machine if used right.

Our halves were the main problem in attack, not the solution we’re going to be missing.

Yeah I kinda agree. Metcalf was going great, but when you look at it, what was he actually doing well specifically?

Try assists? Not bad, but nothing miraculous.
Short kicking game? Not bad, but fairly middle of the road for an NRL half (last few weeks this looked to be improving).
Long kicking game? I would say below average for NRL level halves.
Goal kicking? Below average for an NRL half
Scoring tries? Above average for an NRL half.
Defence? About average for an NRL half

Metcalf was certainly growing as a half as the year went on, but overall as an NRL half he wasn't actually killing it in one particular area of his game. I feel that well lose a lot of his off the cuff play - his pace, his support play and his vision at times, but we'll also gain a shit load from Boyd leading us around, particularly with his kicking game and goal kicking.

I feel like with Metcalf, we were always kind of waiting for him to do something, or create for others, whereas Tannah will get us to the right parts of the field and give our players opportunity to compete, but I think we'll need our other attacking weapons to finish it off once we're in the red zone

A lot of pressure ya'll are putting on byod to "fix our attack". I also hope byod manages to be an improvement on Metcalf, but interesting to see so many people have that as the expectation.

 

[Tookey 2.0]

A lot of pressure ya'll are putting on byod to "fix our attack". I also hope byod manages to be an improvement on Metcalf, but interesting to see so many people have that as the expectation.

Huh?
I was literally saying outside of Tannah kicking us to the right parts of the field, we'ee going to need to rely on others to get us across the line haha.

 

[John Nick]

Huh?
I was literally saying outside of Tannah kicking us to the right parts of the field, we'ee going to need to rely on others to get us across the line haha.

Yeah Boyd is never going to be an improvement on Metcalf but hopefully he fills the position and brings something different
Kicking passing and defense would be a start
Never going to replace the attacking attributes of Metcalf and I am not expecting that

 

[Ref]

Who would have thought it.
Tannah Boyd the saviour.
I reckon he will be nearly as impactful as Metcalf was if Webby gets the selections right.
1- TMM
2- TT
3- Berry
4-Pompey
5- RTS
6- CHT
7- Boyd
8- JFH
9-Egan
10- Afoa
11- Laban
12- Capewell
13- Clark

14 Healey
15 Ford
16 Leka
17 Demi

 

[Dannevegas]

boys better be up for this or the seasons done imo. Tigers looked good, young and energetic.

 

[Dannevegas]

My final team list, after some evaluation.

Te-Maire Martin
Roger Tuivasa-scheck
Sio Kali
Adam Pompey
Taine Tauapiki
Channel Harris-Tavita
Tanah Boyd
James Fisher-Harris
Wade Egan
Tom Ale/Bunty Afoa
Kurt Capewell
Jacob Laban
Erin Clark

Sam Healy
Demetric Vaimauga
Jackson Ford
Leka Halasima

 

[Te Mana-wah]

1. TMM
2. RTS
3. Berry
4. Pompey
5. TT
6. CHT
7. Boyd
8. JFH
9. Egan
10. Niukore
11. Capewell
12. Laban
13. Clark

14. Healey
15. Halisima
16. Vaimauga
17. TSS

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

boys better be up for this or the seasons done imo. Tigers looked good, young and energetic.

And in the playoff for the wooden spoon. Sure they can beat teams that are flat and disrupted by origin but genuine top 4 vs bottom.4 contests shouldn’t be banana skin games.

If we’re genuine this year, we need to come out firing, hungry and professionally take the W.

 

[MXRecord]

boys better be up for this or the seasons done imo. Tigers looked good, young and energetic.

If we can't get up and win this game we're in serious trouble imho.

 

[Worried2Death]

And in the playoff for the wooden spoon. Sure they can beat teams that are flat and disrupted by origin but genuine top 4 vs bottom.4 contests shouldn’t be banana skin games.

If we’re genuine this year, we need to come out firing, hungry and professionally take the W.

They nearly beat us last time, expecting another close one.

 

[John Nick]

They nearly beat us last time, expecting another close one.

Absolutely no easy games in this NRL comp.
Gotta turn up with 110% attitude every gameday or else..

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

They nearly beat us last time, expecting another close win.

Edited it for you

 

[Madds]

Based on the way the boys lined up at the start of training on Friday, it's Taine at FB, Kosi keeps his spot on the wing. Boyd half. No other changes.
DWZ had no strapping and doesn't look too far off. CNK didn't look too bad but only did strengthening drills with the physio.

 

[sup42]

Gee a bunch of calls about our season being over if we lose to the Tigers....

Yeah nah.

The Warriors always go back to round one clunkyness when you change the halves.

There will be a two to six game period of adjustment.

Other teams may be more settled and bedded in after 18 rounds of competition hey look at the Tigers, watch their actual last game, they are playing on pride, a dangerous thing.

I expect we will drop three to four games coming in cold.

We are in a reset, next man up is all well and good, but it applies to musicians not conductor of the orchestra.

 

[Playdaball]

Did we ever find out where Tom Ale is?
He wasn’t released pre June 30 , so is still at the Warriors .. some where

 

[jonesy101]

Gee a bunch of calls about our season being over if we lose to the Tigers....

Yeah nah.

The Warriors always go back to round one clunkyness when you change the halves.

There will be a two to six game period of adjustment.

Other teams may be more settled and bedded in after 18 rounds of competition hey look at the Tigers, watch their actual last game, they are playing on pride, a dangerous thing.

I expect we will drop three to four games coming in cold.

We are in a reset, next man up is all well and good, but it applies to musicians not conductor of the orchestra.

I agree dropping 3 to 4 games is realistic given the disruptions. Even 4 losses might be enough for top 4. But this season is so unpredictable it's impossible to gauge how these 9 remaining regular season games will go. One thing that's a given is that we will compete hard in every one of them.