Post Match Knights v Warriors - [Round 9, 2024]

[MrFrankWhite]

The seasons not over, unless we say it is.

That’s the point. The boys have been acting like their seasons over. Winners win.

 

[Mr Drag]

Open up the wooden spoon thread!

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

Ricky Stuart spray to the warriors..... you keep going to the fucken right! You know it ain't working!!!! Your fucken shit!

 

[matsby]

Guilty

 

[Worried2Death]

Come on bro. Shauns stale same set plays inside the opposition 5 is his fault. Execution is off. He isn't blameless.

Well I don't know if it's Webby's fault or Shaun not playing eyes up and going outside the process. Pretty sure SJ's just following orders.

 

[The Warrior Waka]

Well I don't know if it's Webby's fault or Shaun not playing eyes up and going outside the process. Pretty sure SJ's just following orders.

He is. Just not executing them good enough. Those sweeping back plays he's letting go to early and giving no space to Charnze & Dallin. Oh well. Onwards & backwards lol

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

YOU DONT GET IT!!!!!! ND WHEN YOU DONT GET IT, YOU GO BACK TO WHAT DOESNT WORK!!!!! YOUR SHIT!!!!!

Ahhhhhh Ricky Stuart!!!!! You are league gold!!!!!

 

[Mr Drag]

I'm sure Webby is culling the new fans so us OG fans can have the pain to ourselves

 

[John Nick]

Come on bro. Shauns stale same set plays inside the opposition 5 is his fault. Execution is off. He isn't blameless.

Shaun is too predictable and needs help to provide some variation.
Tmm is struggling to keep up and doesn't have any input.
Taine is the best option I guess.
Hopefully CHT isn't too far away

 

[The Warrior Waka]

Shaun is too predictable and needs help to provide some variation.
Tmm is struggling to keep up and doesn't have any input.
Taine is the best option I guess.
Hopefully CHT isn't too far away

Taine may be out. Ankle is busted. CHT back round 10. Stuck with TMM

 

[matsby]

I watched nsw cup game an agree traine be a good 5/8. Also Dylan another good player

 

[Warrior#214]

Is that a Kent comment

 

[Possum11]

They will not make the top8 now another terrible year

 

[matsby]

I watched nsw cup game an agree traine be a good 5/8. Also Dylan another good player

Zion was crap

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Zion was crap

Someone said he wasn’t named…

 

[matsby]

Someone said he wasn’t named…

 

[Coops]

Trying to take a higher level look at things rather than individual performances.

Shape:
Our shape is awful. Absolutely awful. 2nd receiver on both sides of the field receives the ball running towards the corner post without fail. If the ball manages to get beyond 2nd receiver which is rare, our wingers are heading to row 3.

3/4 Variation:
We have absolutely Zero deception at backrow or centre on both sides of the field. RTS is the only 3/4 player that attracts extra defence but the poor ball he gets and his own inability to be a passing threat also makes him ineffective.

Attacking Style:
Our predictable style takes very little out of the opposition tank. Allowing them to repel wave after wave of attack with gang tackling style - how often do we cause the defence to scramble? Never...

Loosing the ruck:
The above allows teams to still have energy to roll through us in attack. Playing a direct style and leaving players on the ground with a quick play the ball.

Lack of purposeful second phase:
Our second phase this year has been atrocious. Lacking any real purpose, mainly hot potato. We've built a team of tackle bots, we must ask better questions of the defence through 2nd phase.

Bench Selection:
Been discussed to death, nothing to add that hasn't been said.

I'm confused as to why we just cant seem to dominate the ruck at all. Are we scared of being penalised? More than once tonight newy finished the tackle then 2nd or 3rd man can in and re-tackled us with no response from ref. Are we just dumb or is something else at play?

 

[Coops]

Yeah man same, I have just cancelled Kayo, unsubscribed to podcasts, and removed any apps. I have lost interest completely after all these years. Thankfully I live in AFL country and if the NRL gives me the shits I can make it disappear

Im trying to do the same but I've also realised AFL has basically the same rules as netball!

 

[Warrior#214]

Seeing a lot of doom and gloom and some posts calling for all sorts of things but here is the thing, the warriors are eighth on the table in points differential and have lost three games in a row, thats all. The seasons not over, unless we say it is.

Agree somewhat. But we seem to be going backwards in terms of our own performances. Across the NRL there’s teams improving, evolving and generally picking up their game after the first few rounds. If we do pull it together from here it will be to scrape the eight. What I wanted to see was a team building a style of play that wouldn’t look out of place in the Top 4. We’ve actually been lucky with injury to this point. While we’ve lost som class cattle we haven’t seen our Ponga or Reynolds taken out of the picture. Can’t see how this team with this game plan would cope if Johnson was out for a week. It’s all a bit stale and starting to honk!

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

Shaun is too predictable and needs help to provide some variation.
Tmm is struggling to keep up and doesn't have any input.
Taine is the best option I guess.
Hopefully CHT isn't too far away

Do you think the players around him are doing enough to create options?

I feel like last season they were all working hard and that was helping SJ create more, now we are busted it's not working as well.