Player Mitch Barnett
- Thread starter WahsaurusRex
- Start date
- Date of Birth
- Apr 15, 1994
- Birth Location
- Taree, New South Wales, Australia
- Nationality
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Height (cm)
- 187 cm
- Weight (kg)
- 104 kg
- Position/s
- Prop
- Second Row
- Lock
- Nickname
- Barny
- Warrior #
- 275
- NRL Debut Date
- Aug 10, 2015
- NRL Debut Details
- 2015, Round 22, Canberra Raiders vs Wests Tigers
- Warriors Debut Date
- Mar 3, 2023
- Warriors Debut Details
- March 3 2023, Round 1 vs Newcastle Knights at SKY Stadium, Wellington, New Zealand
- Warriors Years Active
- 2023
- 2024
- 2025
- Signed From
- Newcastle Knights
- Junior Club/s
- Wingham Tigers
- Previous Club/s
- Canberra Raiders, Newcastle Knights
- Rep Honours
- Australia
- NSW (SOO)
- Awards/Honours
- Warriors Captain
- Warriors Player of the Year
- Status
- Active
- Rugby League Project
- https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/mitchell-barnett/summary.html
So gutted with this news as he was having the best season of his career.
I had mixed feelings at the announcement of his signing at the time as he'd served a lengthy suspension and questioned his discipline, but was so wrong to have such doubts. His professionalism since joining the club has been outstanding. Here's hoping for many more games in the Warriors colours, but even now he deserves to be held in the same esteem as club legends like Campion, Wiki and Price.
I had mixed feelings at the announcement of his signing at the time as he'd served a lengthy suspension and questioned his discipline, but was so wrong to have such doubts. His professionalism since joining the club has been outstanding. Here's hoping for many more games in the Warriors colours, but even now he deserves to be held in the same esteem as club legends like Campion, Wiki and Price.
I think that everyone has to lift especially the young guys. More time and we should/have to cover for the loss.
Fords workrate is amazing
Not always perfect but he really covers a lot of errors and misses.
More time for Laban will help and Bunty sharing time. We obviously will miss Barnett but most teams will have the same misfortune.
We almost beat the Raiders without him and fisher Harris, so we are competitive let's not write us off just yet.
Yeah now Barnett is gone, I think our GF equivalence or dream goal should be to make the top four and be competitive in the finals to the degree where we do not get blown off the park if we faced a Melbourne say.
But from here, a top four finish to me would be like winning a GF from where we have come from as a club.
You seem pretty convinced he shouldn't play next year and we're a series chance at signing Payne Haas, are you his agent? Hope so, when can he get here?
I think Tohu was a mummy for at least 2 seasons. Mind you he was a zombie before he was mummy, you never knew if he was hurt because he never showed an emotion, like the Warriors Lou Reed.
Injury blow: Warriors' Barnett sidelined for rest of NRL season
He ruptured his ACL during the Warriors' win against South Sydney.www.nzherald.co.nz
FUCK.
Yeah I just don’t know how realistic that is. That next man up mentality only works for a few weeks. Once you miss that class for an extended time it does really start to show.
At least Mitch will be involved.
He will still be part of club video talk sessions.
I dont know whether rehab takes place at Maurice Rd or specialist medical places.
Its the mental part of recovery after serious injuries.
As an individual I found people just forget about you after 3/4 weeks.
This wont be the case with Mitch.
He will still be part of club video talk sessions.
I dont know whether rehab takes place at Maurice Rd or specialist medical places.
Its the mental part of recovery after serious injuries.
As an individual I found people just forget about you after 3/4 weeks.
This wont be the case with Mitch.
Like I said. Mitch moves into an unofficial forwards assistant coach role for the season. He will be doing his recovery and rehab and coming to Mt Smart, to study the opposition players with the video analyst and work with the young guys to help them mentally. His never say die attitude needs to run deep with our young guys who need to dig in and not let him down. JFH now needs to stand up a little taller and pick up some of the slack.
I suspect Demetric will now be asked to play more minutes and get more involved. Don’t forget Laban, TSS and Bunty - all will play roles here.
This week - one game to the bye. A win here locks us into the 4 and gives us a 3 win buffer to 6th. Massive game for us. A win for Barney here at Shark Park will be special.
Let’s hope all of our efforts go into pumping the shire and putting them back into the chasing pack.
Onwards.
He was having his minutes slowly reduced (rookie wall??) but played one of his best on the weekend.
The best and most likely outcome is Tom Ale comes in hungry with fresh legs and rips up
I've thought about it a lot, since the game.
I am still devasted that he's losing the rest of this season.
I am still devasted that he's losing the rest of this season.
Been thinking about how we mitigate the loss of Barnett a lot, like everyone else.
Reading the calls that it is time for Marata and JFH to stand up.
The problem is that Barnett is our one percent guy, he sets the speed of the line, and he a lead chasing forward for the kick chase.
He also as we all know has the leg speed in the hit up department to compliment JFH in getting our sets rolling.
I don't see where JFH and or Marata fill that void.
Forget Marata, he doesn't have the leg speed, or engine, nor the awareness or drive for off the ball work.
JFH has taken me a while to understand, he is not a line bender, not a ball player, and neither does he have footwork. But he gets through plenty of workload, and I noticed he hits hard and effects the other teams ability to get parity in the ruck.
I think JFH main asset is that he is very good at a sustained consistent level, which anchors our middles without tearing around out there like the work maniac that is Barnett.
So I don't see calls for JFH carry it all on his own works in the absence of Barnett either. In fact without Barnett to split the focus of the defence on one top prop forward - we would be doing well if JFH manages to maintain....and not go backwards.
The guy we need to step up then is Jackson Ford.
He has the engine, is not shy around work, and his defence is good enough to match Barnett.
As a running forward he doesn't have the ability of Barnett to get the roll on, therefore Egan and Webster need to set him up for the hit up after a dominant ruck.
Ford is I realise a poor mans Barnett at best, but hey effort wise they are the same, and it is in that dept that Barnett will be missed most by this team.
We should also not assume Ford has peaked as a player, we all know that if he put away his handling issues and penalties conceded that he could fill at least the work load void.
Reading the calls that it is time for Marata and JFH to stand up.
The problem is that Barnett is our one percent guy, he sets the speed of the line, and he a lead chasing forward for the kick chase.
He also as we all know has the leg speed in the hit up department to compliment JFH in getting our sets rolling.
I don't see where JFH and or Marata fill that void.
Forget Marata, he doesn't have the leg speed, or engine, nor the awareness or drive for off the ball work.
JFH has taken me a while to understand, he is not a line bender, not a ball player, and neither does he have footwork. But he gets through plenty of workload, and I noticed he hits hard and effects the other teams ability to get parity in the ruck.
I think JFH main asset is that he is very good at a sustained consistent level, which anchors our middles without tearing around out there like the work maniac that is Barnett.
So I don't see calls for JFH carry it all on his own works in the absence of Barnett either. In fact without Barnett to split the focus of the defence on one top prop forward - we would be doing well if JFH manages to maintain....and not go backwards.
The guy we need to step up then is Jackson Ford.
He has the engine, is not shy around work, and his defence is good enough to match Barnett.
As a running forward he doesn't have the ability of Barnett to get the roll on, therefore Egan and Webster need to set him up for the hit up after a dominant ruck.
Ford is I realise a poor mans Barnett at best, but hey effort wise they are the same, and it is in that dept that Barnett will be missed most by this team.
We should also not assume Ford has peaked as a player, we all know that if he put away his handling issues and penalties conceded that he could fill at least the work load void.
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I think Ford is up to the task. He's been far improved this year.
He made 90 post contact metres during the Raiders game, so really it's a case of consistency for him to become as damaging as Barney. Where we are losing the most, I think, is the level headed nature of our beloved co-captain.
JFH is really going to have to make sure he dodges every suspension between now and the end of the year as the next one he gets will most definitely be more than one week.