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The result was a nasty hip drop, but I see a lot of mitigating factors. SJ burns past him leaving him grappling, he gets tangled with Mateo whose hip contact takes out and shunts his legs (which is not obvious from front on). A lot of the hip drops that are punished these days are ones where...

Yeah, you'd think by today's standards he'd have had a decent stint on the sidelines due to the severity of the injury. For me it was just a desperate melee to try and stop a hot-stepping SJ rather than anything malicious or even clumsy. So it would have been unfortunate. I don't miss the Mateo...

Capewell will feel at home when he returns to the squad

CNK at 6 showed the benefit of hard and straight.

And eyes that get crazier looking every time you see them. I wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley.

Great try!

Moses clinic

He doesn't want to cease his employment with us, but he does want to look at employment possibilities at other clubs. Umm....

That's funny, I was comparing him to Crowe in my head earlier. Crowe was playing on one leg at the end, a shadow of his former self. It didn't change the fact that he was a NZ legend and deserved to go out on his terms. Lauiti'iti is my favourite ever Warriors player, Jones 2nd. SJ's highlights...

You and I were singing from the same song sheet about RTS in his last stint on the pre-Turk version of the site. His effort, metreage, and shimmy made people blind to his limitations, and blind to the fact that all his exploits weren't actually moving the needle for the team in a way that...

I do feel for coaches a little in this age. Player agents and reporters go on a rampage when a senior player is dropped. The age of outrage. Players that ordinarily might not feel entitled to a spot are told by all and sundry that they have been grievously wronged, and it is everyone else's...

His 2023 off season was something else. SJ was in peak condition, like he had put everything into it as one last hurrah. His lack of soft tissue injuries were probably a result of that work. I think everyone felt he was bulletproof again, and assumed that he could go on forever. This year those...

Nah, good. Boot stealing is hilarious, but it also dirty cheating that gives a team a massive advantage. I can remember some Warriors players having their boots hurled into the crowd a few years back that should have resulted in penalties to us rather than disadvantage - I think one caused a...

I genuinely think the general skill level of the whole competition is down. It makes the Warrior's form even more hard to take, because this competition is there to be taken by the balls right now.

Afghanistan have beaten Australia. Both teams that NZ lost to, now in with a fair shot of being in the last 4. The start of this comp was a real ambush for the Kiwis.

All players charged are facing fines. We were stuffed if TMM was out. Hip drops are/used to be a lottery

The Afghani openers are doing to Aussie the same as what they did to us on a difficult pitch. Their batsman might stand up though.

I think a few people are going to be pretty angry come Tuesday. Webster does not strike me as a person who is going to change much week to week. He is a micro-changer, and the bottom line is he backs experience above all.

I'm a huge SJ fan but: Last year's tackle efficiency 91%. This year 83%. He is two missed tackles away from his season's worst since 2018. He has played 11 games this year. Add to that a body that is troubling him. I think he goes at the end of the season; on his terms.

I know, I am highlighting these stats for those inferring a hiding like this doesn't fall on a half because they need a platform. SJs defence was a contributing factor in this lack of a platform. 8 runs for 1 post contact metre is a crazy stat too. TMM 21 tackles for 1 miss. SJ is usually a...