Pick Your Team Warriors vs Penrith [Finals , Week 1 2025]

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I think that whole team needs a rest week after such a big effort against Manly.
  1. Taine Tuaupiki – Fullback
  2. Sio Kali – Wing
  3. Morgan Harper – Centre
  4. Moala Graham-Taufa – Centre
  5. Edward Kosi – Wing
  6. Caleb Laiman – Five-Eighth
  7. Jett Cleary – Halfback
  8. Harry Durbin – Prop
  9. Makaia Tafua – Hooker
  10. Rodney Tuipulotu-Vea – Prop
  11. Kayliss Fatialofa – Second Row
  12. Tom Ale – Second Row
  13. Kalani Going – Lock
  14. Geronimo Doyle – Interchange
  15. Jason Seu Salalilo – Interchange
  16. Toby Crosby – Interchange
  17. Jacob Auloa – Interchange
  18. Setu Tu – Reserve
 
Playing conservative will not win this game. We need to throw everything at them & it either works, or at least we had a crack.

With no centre options, we are forced to probably to move capes to centre. Leka to start, ford to come in. Laban in for tanner if he’s available.
Probably is our only option but Capewell to centre is as conservative a move as it gets, and id also argue a spine containing CHT and CNK doesnt really scream a team thats ever aiming to go "all out attack",
I mean id love if we possessed the players where we could play the expansive game and have points of attack all over the park.....but we simply dont.

Definitely going to be the unpopular view but imo our best chance (as it is in any team) is to play to our strenghts.....which means playing the most boring grindiest game we can......but it has to be the near perfect game in the areas we've let ourselves down lately
- needing probably a 90% completion rate
- fixing our discipline so were not giving away the constant piggy back penalties
- winning the territory battle

For me these areas are far more achievable given the make up of our squad (albeit a massive improvement will still be needed....and even then it may not be enough) as opposed to this near mythical belief that we can play like we have Reece Walsh, Farnsworth, Hammer like qualities in our line up.

As everyone is saying, nothing to lose. So why not try to be perfect in the areas we've been trying to be perfect all season. As i said tho, it'll be the unpopular version and id imagine Webby will get stick regardless what philosiphy he runs with and we lose..
 
1. TT
2. DWZ
3. Leka
4. Pompey
5. RTS
6. CHT
7. Boyd
8. JFH
9. Egan
10. Ford
11. Capewell
12. Niukore
13. Clark

14. TMM
15. Vaimauga
16. EIT
17. Healey

I left CNK out - pretty much because I want Leka to do 80 at centre and TT at the back (love to see them combine) ... also I think we absolutely need Healey in the squad, and think about how we use him - I would like him to be on the field at the same time as Egan, to spell Clark and play a link role at lock with a run first threat
 
If Webby hopes to win against Penrith with defense, then he has to drop DWZ.

DWZ is the weakest link in our team

Put TT on the wing.
Leka at Center and we look much stronger defensively


DWZ does not suit Webbys game plan.
Its been proven.

Our only hope in beating Penrith is to strangle them on D, put them under constant pressure until they make a mistake.
We wont match them with attack so CNK needs to be make his tackles as the last line!

Its all about Defense if we want to win. Grind it out
 
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