Post Match NZ Warriors v Melbourne Storm - [Round 6, 2026]
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Bloke in a bar is the one I only really take seriously at this pt. Jimmy Graham hates us for reasons I don't get and whenever he is confronted by it he gets very defensive. Levels are well meaning but it's clear they only focus on 1 or 2 games each round.
Dennan and Guru clearly watch all games several times each weekend and it shows when they analyze both sides of every game. They are also super fair towards us-Kemp in particular is always the first one to give us props when we deserve. It's quite remarkable if you think about because we did treat him badly when he was with us in 2009.
Did you see Kini peel open the eels defence like a can of fish, he killed them!
That's something I've never seen from TT..
Perhaps it won't bother him.
He may have a brain and psychology that processes threat with a high level of resilience, he might have the right pre frontal cortex and the gene expression for forgetting and for returning to baseline after a fight situation.
I recall when he spoke at his jersey reception that he used the language of therapy. He said "this is going to sound weird but the person I want to thank is myself" and this was in the context of his back story of coming from a Traumatic Child hood and having bad Male role models around him - and a survivor of that childhood, making a decision one day to "not be like my family".
Or, he is like a lot of young men of his peer group, that having had lots of hidings growing up, carries a lot of internal rewiring, and looks to contact sports as an outlet for that fight flight over drive.
Without exception, whether Laban appears bothered by the agro or not - the Gold standard for trauma inducing situations is to touch base with an external support and to not allow people to internalize it.
I used to say to people a lot after extreme violence 'I fee ok, I know myself, and I am fine' and I would hear people say the same thing. But because I worked in a field where colleagues who were 'ok' then went and hung themselves from trees in public parks and reserves - we kinda started listening to that metaphor of I am VERY not ok and I will cry for help in the most public way you could imagine.
Probably in the checks and balances, someone should keep an eye on him, he is not a gnarly older man with a fully formed brain and years of adult reframing of the stress of life, he is a 21 one year old from the highest risk group of males there are in our society in a professional field that has historically swept issues like brain trauma under the carpet for ticket sales and only now is realizing - hundreds of their retired workers are developing terminal illnesses from direct exposure to brain rotting disease in the work place.
In a recent British Study 58% of retired Pro Ünion players admitted to emotional dysregulation (Rage and irritability mood disorders) that was exposed in a study that only looked at the effects of repeated concussions.
No one has done a study on Psychological trauma and it's related incidences of mental disorders in contact sports, yet culturally we know that there is something badly wrong in our Rugby Racing and Beer culture.
We know that somewhere we are broken, we feel it, we sense it, we know we were all hard wired (those of the era of bring back the biff) that our 'she'll be right, harden up, bring back the biff' quiet taciturn hard man facade had to change - because our kids have been killing themselves at three times the rate of the Western world.
Laban is probably fine, someone should probably keep checking with these young kids every week eh.
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Every week. Someone is the Marata or Ali or CNK or Metcalf or remember for a while it was Dally M Ford and his errors and bad hands and penalties. Also remember Tanah gag on the pressure Boyd?
Ok enough dramatic effect from me. Main point I'm suggesting is that form can and will fluctuate. Skills though are learnable and in Taine's case I back the reviews they'll do and the accountability they'll apply to getting Taine better. But I concede on this......Yes he's little.
WAH MAN
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When I needed some auto electrical work done on my car a couple of years ago I couldn't get anybody to do the job for a bunch of reasons.
Then I realised I was stuck with a problem I didn't know how to fix and couldn't get any help either.
So I bugged the closest auto sparky to tell ME what to do. He said check your 5 volt reference.
I had no idea what that meant but that was all he gave. I was dead to him haha.
So to the research centre I went and had to understand that the 5v reference was a starting point for all the smaller stuff that didn't need 12 or 24 volts. Otherwise I'd need to start looking from the battery. So in the end I fixed the problem and got him to check that I had done it properly to which he confirmed I had.
It was not easy but it was possible.
In life I have realised that having reference points gives me a place to look when I need to fix some wiring in me. Find the start point and work forward from there.
Well done to Jacob for not throwing. Well done. We do not want to see another person lost to anything that could be helped.
I am hoping after those 2 loses the team realise they have to be dialled in and bring their A game no matter who they play.
Noitall
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Titans are a good team with plenty of speedsters, which is what seems to trouble us. It’ll be a tough game and ideally rain would be good to nullify them a bit
snake77
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Leading into the season, there were a few sides I was specifically hoping we'd pick up a win against. One was the Raiders, and another was the Storm.
Wins against the more fancied sides, who are tipped to be there at the busy end of the season, would be good to have behind us, confidence-wise, if we met them again in the finals.
Now with hindsight, both of these sides aren't going as well as people predicted coming into the season. You still need to beat whoever is in front of you.
The Storm were on a losing run. We would also have been if we lost. So, it was important in that respect.
We added to the Storms problems, got back on the winning track, and ended the long losing streak.
That is all great. Now we need to back it up again next week.
Wins against the more fancied sides, who are tipped to be there at the busy end of the season, would be good to have behind us, confidence-wise, if we met them again in the finals.
Now with hindsight, both of these sides aren't going as well as people predicted coming into the season. You still need to beat whoever is in front of you.
The Storm were on a losing run. We would also have been if we lost. So, it was important in that respect.
We added to the Storms problems, got back on the winning track, and ended the long losing streak.
That is all great. Now we need to back it up again next week.
j_p
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You are correct. I realised my mistake. I think the original comment said biggest defeat at aami stadium not Melbourne which may be correct?
That eels game was at etihad stadium.
I was going off this page and didn't realise docklands stadium was in Melbourne (and has had a few different names)
All I'm saying is Kini is a much better player than TT will ever be..
We already have.
Lance155
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That's a pretty wild take
CWC
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I think it's gonna be really tough to back up this week after the historical event, it's like you just won the Australian Open grand slam and now you're playing an ATP 500 five days later.
However the Titans might be a good team for us because the boys will be motivated to end another home streak against them
We actually beat teams that usually whip us (raiders since 2024, Knights at Newcastle, Roosters, Storm) and lost to teams we usually own with the asterisk of team changes.
I prefer this route because if the previous pattern continue we'll just beat all lower teams and get smashed by the elite teams in the playoffs, now we can actually try to pick up wins against top teams if we had any hiccups, and we know we can dial it up to compete deep into the playoffs
Kini is 21. Taine is 26…
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