Post Match Bulldogs v Warriors - [Round 23, 2025]

[sup42]

Injuries are the cause of our form slump, Gee was the reason for our loss tonight

Well said and too the point.

This year I have taken to becoming removed from the Games when the Ref goes off like that.

Have to be philosophical and no longer see it as a contest.

Last week hurt a lot more because we were in the contest.

This week I clocked off early and the game became somewhat watched from afar, on my cloud of numbness...no substances involved, just mental meditation.
stopping giving a shit really works!

 

[Warriorsfan92]

I’m chill. You must be happy with us being average

I’m just a realist given the context of our injuries mate. Watch the broncos crumble without Reynolds & mam. We’ve lost our captain, hooker, centres, halfback & were still in the fight to play finals. I’m not content with average, I’m just a realist with where this team is at & the curveballs being constantly thrown at them.

 

[Beastmode]

Man the regular deebie downers are out in force tonight!

We lost our starting 7 early, whilst not having our starting hooker, captain, centre, whilst the dogs missed Montoya & Tracy. They’re essentially full strength, at home, playing like a top 4 side & needed a bounce back after getting pumped by the tigers. The ref didn’t help & he showed to quickly try even the penalty count in the last 10 mins when the game was gone to make it look like he reffed fair.

We’re a side down on confidence, down in troops & it’s showing. The reality is, we’re not a top 4 side, nor are we playing like it. That doesn’t discount all the heavy lifting we’ve already done to deserve to be in finals footy. We’re probably the 6-8th best side imo if we can get some troops back.

We just have to accept this year as a development year & move on. This year’s still been a mammoth success imo with the unearthing of some juniors who will play for many years at the warriors, have had incredible exposure to what the NRL is & will be better for it.

Chin up ya sooks. We got beaten by a better side but it’s not all bloody doom and gloom, sheesh!

 

[snake77]

Next week is going to be tough as well. The Dragons have been improving.

TMM category 1 means another player added to the injury list.

Confidence will be down as well.

 

[Mr. Brownstone]

Man the regular deebie downers are out in force tonight!

We lost our starting 7 early, whilst not having our starting hooker, captain, centre, whilst the dogs missed Montoya & Tracy. They’re essentially full strength, at home, playing like a top 4 side & needed a bounce back after getting pumped by the tigers. The ref didn’t help & he showed to quickly try even the penalty count in the last 10 mins when the game was gone to make it look like he reffed fair.

We’re a side down on confidence, down in troops & it’s showing. The reality is, we’re not a top 4 side, nor are we playing like it. That doesn’t discount all the heavy lifting we’ve already done to deserve to be in finals footy. We’re probably the 6-8th best side imo if we can get some troops back.

We just have to accept this year as a development year & move on. This year’s still been a mammoth success imo with the unearthing of some juniors who will play for many years at the warriors, have had incredible exposure to what the NRL is & will be better for it.

Chin up ya sooks. We got beaten by a better side but it’s not all bloody doom and gloom, sheesh!

Don’t disagree with any of that, however the seasons over.

 

[sup42]

Just remember we had no halfback.

All the so called analysis after that is just noise.

No halfback, means no game plan is possible, no matter how well thought out it is, flogging the Warriors and the coach for that is just dumb.

 

[snake77]

Before the game there was debate on the halves.

If it would be TMM and CHT or CHT and CNK with TMM on the bench.

It would have been good to not have to see both combinations. The second one minus the TMM on the bench due to the HIA.

 

[unclesteve]

Even the Doggies fans I was watching it with conceded some of the bullshit calls against us.

I am sure like all of us, they just want to win fair.

Fix this crap NRL, people have plenty of other sports to watch.

 

[Po11um]

Dragons game will not be a walk in the park
I still see warriors finish in top8 just

 

[Adamnz support]

Adam Gee managed the game for the dogs. The dogs played well, not sure why Crichton was even on the field. Frustrating to watch. 5 resets vs 0 until the last 2 minutes……what a joke!!

 

[Zaggo]

Man the regular deebie downers are out in force tonight!

We lost our starting 7 early, whilst not having our starting hooker, captain, centre, whilst the dogs missed Montoya & Tracy. They’re essentially full strength, at home, playing like a top 4 side & needed a bounce back after getting pumped by the tigers. The ref didn’t help & he showed to quickly try even the penalty count in the last 10 mins when the game was gone to make it look like he reffed fair.

We’re a side down on confidence, down in troops & it’s showing. The reality is, we’re not a top 4 side, nor are we playing like it. That doesn’t discount all the heavy lifting we’ve already done to deserve to be in finals footy. We’re probably the 6-8th best side imo if we can get some troops back.

We just have to accept this year as a development year & move on. This year’s still been a mammoth success imo with the unearthing of some juniors who will play for many years at the warriors, have had incredible exposure to what the NRL is & will be better for it.

Chin up ya sooks. We got beaten by a better side but it’s not all bloody doom and gloom, sheesh!

This has to be a gee up, surely.

We looked absolutely fucking diabolical for about 95% of that game.

As for a development year - we were sitting extremely comfortably in the top 4 with a perceived extremely soft run home, and we're shitting the bed.

We have some young talent coming through but we've also got 3 Kiwis captains in our starting team, and other guys like Capewell who have played a lot of Origin. To call it a development year is papering over the cracks and is frankly a cop out.

 

[BlackToko88]

Just treat the next 4 games as knockout footy. Must win ie september starts now for us.

Control what we can, go back to doing the things we did well at the start.

Bur for whatever reason the club js cursed in losing players

 

[Mr. Brownstone]

It’s nothing to do with the ref, we’ve just got a heap of injuries & can’t compete anymore. We try to compensate for that by pushing the rules & get penalised. Stop looking for scapegoats. The evidence was clear to see against the Tigers & it’s just got worse since then. Could be wrong however without a big upset I don’t see us winning again this season. Really disappointing given how many close games we won earlier in the season however we simply don’t have the cattle.

 

[Mr. Brownstone]

Dragons game will not be a walk in the park
I still see warriors finish in top8 just

Dragons will beat us by 20.

 

[Dannevegas]

I’m just a realist given the context of our injuries mate. Watch the broncos crumble without Reynolds & mam. We’ve lost our captain, hooker, centres, halfback & were still in the fight to play finals. I’m not content with average, I’m just a realist with where this team is at & the curveballs being constantly thrown at them.

I’m just a realist given the context of our injuries mate. Watch the broncos crumble without Reynolds & mam. We’ve lost our captain, hooker, centres, halfback & were still in the fight to play finals. I’m not content with average, I’m just a realist with where this team is at & the curveballs being constantly thrown at them.

I’m just gonna rap that up as an excuse, we have the cattle in this side and cup to do something with what we have left of this season. But the way things are going it’s not looking good

 

[Stalefish540]

How we played, plus Gee ploughing on.

That was actually an excruciating 80mins to sit through, surprised I actually made it to the final whistle.

Fuck that was an all encompassing tough watch .

 

[Adamnz support]

I wish the post tv analysis would called a spade a spade, the warriors played like but the ref fucked us…..multiple times!!!!

 

[enterthewarrior]

Not even a single line break made tonight. Plenty of missed tackles and errors.

 

[tajhay]

Not even a single line break made tonight. Plenty of missed tackles and errors.

No dont say that. It was all the refs fault.

 

[timburgesstheonlyoneiknow]

Plenty of effort from the team. Injuries to key players have hurt the team and the ref tonight was awful. The decision to drop Boyd was costly as his longer kicking game was missed. Losing TMM to HIA ensured Warriors would never get a result.

Hard to fault the team as the effort was there......they will beat the Dragons next week.