Staff Andrew Webster

[Wah's Up]

Webby was always here as the attacking assistant for the Panthers and a potentially good coach in a few years, his gimmick worked miracles in 2023 and now he needs to apply what he learned from last year, ideally with gun assistants, are there any Joe Schmits around? Throw Dylan Brown money at Brad Arthurs lol, no salary cap issues.

The biggest change Webby brought in 2023 was linespeed. Something the Warriors never had and in Vegas the line speed was not there. Canberra's line speed was dynamite.

 

[CWC]

Webby does like his Australians!

Just realized Ford over Demtric/Leka/Laban/Ale, and Metcalf over TMM, if we get another case like this there will be dressing room issues

 

[Makasene]

The biggest change Webby brought in 2023 was linespeed. Something the Warriors never had and in Vegas the line speed was not there. Canberra's line speed was dynamite.

2023 was a lot of public talk about "we identified the 4 or 5 things that win football games and focus on that"

I haven't heard any talk like that since 2023.

At this stage (sadly) until proven otherwise Webster ball doesn't win NRL games.

 

[roguei]

Just realized Ford over Demtric/Leka/Laban/Ale, and Metcalf over TMM, if we get another case like this there will be dressing room issues

Mate its not just that. We've also gone for
Egan over roache so much so we've pushed that proud kiwi out of the club.
Walker over Demtric/Leka/Laban/Ale.
Barnett as co captain over just making the kiwi JFH cap.

There must be dressing room issues as i have no idea how any player cannot see his obivous bais for aussie players.

 

[Inruin]

2023 was a lot of public talk about "we identified the 4 or 5 things that win football games and focus on that"

I haven't heard any talk like that since 2023.

At this stage (sadly) until proven otherwise Webster ball doesn't win NRL games.

The thing is, those particular focuses are important and the top teams generally seem to do well in those areas. The bit that's missing is it seems AW thinks do those things and we should win more games than not, but he has forgotten that you need x factor and creativity to take advantage of these stats and score points and win games. He has reduced us down to robotic players and boring football in an attempt to dominate those key stats while forgetting the most important one of all, score more points than your opposition.

 

[Inruin]

Mate its not just that. We've also gone for
Egan over roache so much so we've pushed that proud kiwi out of the club.
Walker over Demtric/Leka/Laban/Ale.
Barnett as co captain over just making the kiwi JFH cap.

There must be dressing room issues as i have no idea how any player cannot see his obivous bais for aussie players.

I have a thought/theory around this which I might explore in a post once we get the Manly game and potential fallout out of the way

 

[Worried2Death]

I have a thought/theory around this which I might explore in a post once we get the Manly game and potential fallout out of the way

Is it the Ivan shadow-coaching the team through Webby in preparation for his comeback with Nathan theory

 

[Inruin]

Is it the Ivan shadow-coaching the team through Webby in preparation for his comeback with Nathan theory

No

 

[roguei]

I have a thought/theory around this which I might explore in a post once we get the Manly game and potential fallout out of the way

To be clear i don't think there is any "problems in the locker room" or that "webby has lost the locker room". I'm just spouting the same silly gossip but to an extreme. Because it feels like rumors like that will just harm the club.

 

[tajhay]

Egan over roache so much so we've pushed that proud kiwi out of the club.
Walker over Demtric/Leka/Laban/Ale.
Barnett as co captain over just making the kiwi JFH cap.

There must be dressing room issues as i have no idea how any player cannot see his obivous bais for aussie players.

I fail to see how any of the above listed items are obvious bias for Australian players. You would rather have Roache as our hooker (lol), any of the four listed over Walker, and JFH as the sole captain when he doesnt talk much and has the least amount of time on field in our forward pack?

Is that the same paul roache who cant even make the starting team of a QRL cup? And you would have him over Egan?

That round 1 loss has really impacted a lot of people, in a lot of ways.

Your theory sounds very much like an unjustified kiwi bias rather than an australian one.

 

[Beastmode]

This sounds very much like an unjustified kiwi bias rather than an australian one.

 

[roguei]

I fail to see how any of the above listed items are obvious bias for Australian players. You would rather have Roache as our hooker (lol), any of the four listed over Walker, and JFH as the sole captain when he doesnt talk much and has the least amount of time on field in our forward pack?

This sounds very much like an unjustified kiwi bias rather than an australian one.

Mate you just don't get it. It's obivious that promition of non-kiwi talent is just cuddles bringing in cronies, which of course would result in the real warriors team/pathways players not believing in cuddles anymore.

To be clear i don't think there is any "problems in the locker room" or that "webby has lost the locker room". I'm just spouting the same silly gossip but to an extreme. Because it feels like rumors like that will just harm the club.

 

[BabylonPink]

You know I just watched the first half and tbf it wasn't that bad.
Its 1 game.

 

[Blain]

You know I just watched the first half and tbf it wasn't that bad.
Its 1 game.

2 tries directly off the back of errors (well 1 could have been a try for us with the intercept), at least 1 try bombed the other way, if things went our way a bit.. Glass half full. The issue was the limp attack in the last half, had some ball in the right field position and did fucking nothing... That and the fact our forwards were beaten all night, the lack of positives made it a really hard watch.

I expect a bounce back in performance tonight. I'm picking a tight loss still, but we need to see something from this unchanged team.

 

[John Nick]

2 tries directly off the back of errors (well 1 could have been a try for us with the intercept), at least 1 try bombed the other way, if things went our way a bit.. Glass half full. The issue was the limp attack in the last half, had some ball in the right field position and did fucking nothing... That and the fact our forwards were beaten all night, the lack of positives made it a really hard watch.

I expect a bounce back in performance tonight. I'm picking a tight loss still, but we need to see something from this unchanged team.

As we saw last night NRL games are won off better go forward up front.
Not stats or spreadsheets
If you turn up with the stronger determination/attitude than the opposition you give yourself every chance.
Last night both teams had similar rosters imo .Only one team played like they wanted it more.

 

[Noitall]

As we saw last night NRL games are won off better go forward up front.
Not stats or spreadsheets.
If you turn up with the stronger determination/attitude than the opposition you give yourself every chance.
Last night both teams had similar rosters imo .Only one team played like they wanted it more.

Was interesting listening to Ennis and Alexander on the panel talking about the raiders and the style they play being different from that of many other systems in the competition. We try to emulate a panthers setup and raiders knocked them over last year, so it’s obviously a style that troubles ours? We’ve often had the better of them in recent years in tight tussles, but SJ was often the difference. Often seemed to be up for the raiders, recall that one where he played amazing and got that intercept off the kickoff to score. Webster came in and gave SJ great belief and many players in his first year here in themselves and listening to Vaimauga at the beginning of the season and his goals, he’s doing it with the young guys coming through. Leiataua just oozes confidence. We’re on the right path but there will be a bump or two

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Was interesting listening to Ennis and Alexander on the panel talking about the raiders and the style they play being different from that of many other systems in the competition. We try to emulate a panthers setup and raiders knocked them over last year, so it’s obviously a style that troubles ours? We’ve often had the better of them in recent years in tight tussles, but SJ was often the difference. Often seemed to be up for the raiders, recall that one where he played amazing and got that intercept off the kickoff to score. Webster came in and gave SJ great belief and many players in his first year here in themselves and listening to Vaimauga at the beginning of the season and his goals, he’s doing it with the young guys coming through. Leiataua just oozes confidence. We’re on the right path but there will be a bump or two

Every team has a style that bothers ours.

A question that no one seems to answer, why do we need Webby to develop the pathways? He’s neither the GM nor the director of football.

 

[Noitall]

Every team has a style that bothers ours.

A question that no seems to answer, why do we need Webby to develop the pathways? He’s neither the GM nor the director of football.

No I don’t think that’s true. There are periods where teams just seem to trouble other teams for whatever reason. Dragons was a team in recent years that we had the better of after they notoriously used to be our bogey team. Flanagan looks to have changed that. Raiders were another that we often got a victory in recent years as mentioned, there was even a time where we troubled the storm even with their big 3 in Smith, Cronk and Slater. We’ve lost a couple of players in SJ and Tohu that our whole attack revolved around, so common sense says it’s not going to happen overnight to go with the most damaging prop in the game. Don’t think it’s Webster developing pathways on his own. It’s a collective between the coach of the level the player is playing in and many across the club. Seems logical that he has input as the final goal is that the players will be playing under him

 

[MrFrankWhite]

No I don’t think that’s true. There are periods where teams just seem to trouble other teams for whatever reason. Dragons was a team in recent years that we had the better of after they notoriously used to be our bogey team. Flanagan looks to have changed that. Raiders were another that we often got a victory in recent years as mentioned, there was even a time where we troubled the storm even with their big 3 in Smith, Cronk and Slater.

Cool so five years ago and a decade ago. I didn’t just start watching the warriors.

We’ve lost a couple of players in SJ and Tohu that our whole attack revolved around, so common sense says it’s not going to happen overnight to go with the most damaging prop in the game.

I don’t understand the point here. What’s this got to do with pathways and junior development?

Don’t think it’s Webster developing pathways on his own. It’s a collective between the coach of the level the player is playing in and many across the club. Seems logical that he has input as the final goal is that the players will be playing under him

i don’t understand this either. Seems like your talking about the game plan and positional and tactical decisions (which doesn’t look favourably on Webby at the moment)

 

[Noitall]

Cool so five years ago and a decade ago. I didn’t just start watching the warriors.

Storm we haven’t competed with for a while, but the other two mentioned we have been competitive with or beating in recent seasons

I don’t understand the point here. What’s this got to do with pathways and junior development

Was more aimed at the first part of the post that every team has a style that troubles us. Attack and defensively, it doesn’t just fall into place overnight or one preseason

i don’t understand this either. Seems like your talking about the game plan and positional and tactical decisions (which doesn’t look favourably on Webby at the moment

This was aimed at the part of the post that asked why do we need Webster to develop pathways, which seems pretty self explanatory in what I said. He’s not developing pathways on his own, the coach of flegg or sg ball or whatever grade is involved too and makes sense Webster has input to ask for areas to work towards with the players ultimate goal to be playing first grade under him