Post Match NZ Warriors v Cronulla Sharks - [Round 5, 2026]
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Same thing as last week. The boys are all out of whack.
You know my thoughts about Metcalf overriding Boyd.
Boyd was doing well this year, as he had a preseason training to be the dominant half (for the start of the season, atleast).
The boys trained with him and got in sync with his playstyle.
Metcalf comes in, however talented may be, and muddies the attacking structure.
Clunky attack leads to frustration.
Frustration leads to mistakes. Mistakes leads to defensive lapses.
This is only my opinion, of course and next week (assuming Metcalf isn't playing) we will find out if my little theory is correct.
Lance155
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Not tested as much imo. He was still lazy as hell in all games
Hope not. Probably ptsd but I am always suspicious of this phenomena at our club.
Today was as close as I have come to thinking we look like a "coach has lost the dressing room:" Warriors outfit. Not fingering everyone here, just some of the seniors Like Charnze, Luke, and even Roger. It just looks like half the seniors aren't excited to go after it.
Like I say, it is prolly just ptsd....but two out of three of those blokes is being asked to give up their (air quotes) spots in the team and the other is off to England.
They just look flat, disinterested, and like they're going through the motions.
Which kinda pisses me off when you see blokes like Tanah whose job really is on the line, having a tough game, struggling in parts, but trying stuff.
As for the that right edge defence, it just goes to show how much we rely on players like Capewell to guide the defence and clean up.
Did I read he is fit for next week? Otherwise Gannon has to come in there and cover, we need people that want to win (poor Gannon but hey someone has to play next to Boyd with some lateral movement).
If Metcalf was playing next week and even if Charnze was fit, I would drop Charnze for CHT and play him in that slot instead of Gannon for CHTs tackling, I know that sounds desperate but we are desperate.
Lance155
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What you are seeing is a difference in foward pack domination. Its easy to blame that on the halves for a casual fan.
It's time to be a realist. We're not as good as we think we are and too many of our players are coasting. It's going to be a long season.
Well said.
Yeah I was actually pretty impressed with how we steadied the ship after a Webster talk at half time. While not nearly good enough we corrected the worst edge defence seen in the NRL this season by anyone (it was embarrassing like we had named all our NSW Xfactor backs for lols and thought that would win us an NRL game).
As others have said our forwards worked hard in stages with Tanner a stand out.
Pompey needs to hire a Nanny, pretty obvious the night time feeds with a bubba have cooked his brain.
Been there. As have most, thank gawd that is over and they are all grown up, it is bloody murder, even if it is not your night to get up.
Jaffa J
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Runs the players out of space which has been a common issue of his
Yes we absolutely resorted to catch up footy. To be fair it was partly a case of having to chance our hand, however we are a much better side when we dig in and grind our way back into games.
The big picture is that we need to be able to play catch up footy, length of the field footy to compete with the big three counter attacking sides in this comp (but there is no point in doing that if you don't earn the right) bottom line, the reason we cannot just spread it and burn sides is that we lack the speed and accuracy....
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