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I feel like people are still conditioned to thinking our players are inferior. That the bubble could burst at any time. Last season this was a valid fear. A whole season later, for the first time ever they look better than the prior year. Like each one has improved.Soward is also a petulant man-child. Based on the results of round 1 i would have us sitting between 4-6 in the power rankings.
I expect the tigers will show some improvement in attack this week, they do have legitimate short kicking game threats in benji and farrah but i think we will limit their chances to execute, as long as we diffuse their kicks.
Funny thing is that this forum complained about Mutts and Packer before they left and reckoned good riddance to them. And for good reason. Mutts was lazy and Packer's running impact diminished. They haven't gone badly at Tigers. But they're not up with the top tier.
Marshall hasn't been effective since he left league to go to union.
Farah is good and he and Marshall will no doubt try to target Keighran. But he's lost his sharpness. I'm comfortable our back three will pick up the slack. Roache himself is sharper in the running game.
Masters is not as impactful as his size suggests. He's still developing but I don't feel sides quiver at the sight of him right now. We handled easily enough in the trial. He had a couple of good busts when it didn't matter. His defence is a bit soft.
Do you see anything in their team that even sounds nearly as menacing as Ken/Fusitua/Roger Tuivasa-Sheck?
You're going to see. Cleary isn't there any more. That D has deteriorated. No Simona. Nofoaluma is not the player he was 2 or 3 seasons ago. He hasn't kicked on. I see nothing to fear in that side.
Finally, Brooks is the most overhyped. Not even the Aussies can pinpoint much in his game to fear. He has failed to deliver to the degree people accused Shaun Johnson of, except Shaun Johnson has an impressive highlights reel. Brook's best asset is his speed on support. If his pack dominates and gets a roll on he can get away from you.
I'm confident it's another 16+.
SK never gets over confident.Lets not get over confident folks.
You're another one still conditioned not to trust your eyes with our team.Lets not get over confident folks.
Wests at home on a Sunday is there bread and butter. Will just be chuffed to come away with the 2 points. Believe we are the better side, but we are along way off just showing up to get the lollies.
Kent, Ikin and Ennis give their honest opinions. I respect that. And they are balanced.Paul Kent on 360 had Warriors in his 8 he has us coming 7th from start of year, Good podcast in OZ Triplem on Saturday they also had the replay with Sterlo commentating
"[Last week] we thought we could put some pressure on some individuals if we were consistent with the pressure, and sometimes that's just running the ball hard.
"As we saw after 15-20 minutes, we thought if we could do that consistently that we would get some reward at the back end of halves, and I thought that worked OK."
Sums up our new team perfectlyThey criticized our consistency, so we won our first 7 or 8 games last year. They criticized our results, we made the 8 after 6 years of depression. They criticized our recruitment and said Roger Tuivasa-Sheck would turn to shit here. So he won Dally M player if the year.
Calm down buddy - you're gonna get your feelings hurt.You're another one still conditioned not to trust your eyes with our team.
We thrashed both Rabbitohs and Roosters last year when Rabbitohs has a better team than this year bar Reynolds. Their backs were still red hot.
They evened it up on return serve, but that's footy.
Our team should be #1 Ranking on results alone.
Two years in a row we win the first round. Last year we hit top around round 8. This year we top the table from round one. The power rankings commentators are touting after round 1 is rootless. Because they all assert "Power Rankings after round one".
They made their preseason predictions already taking into account last years results and names on paper. PRs after round 1 have to be based on round 1 results. Otherwise they carry no weight because they become merely an extension of preseason predictions.
You can't watch our first game, compare with last year, and not conclude that WARRIORS ARE FIRE RIGHT NOW. We scored the most points. Our kicker has a better kicking percentage already than Shaun Johnson ever had. It's probably the highest score from us without Shaun Johnson in over a decade. We looked better balanced (incredibly) than when he was here. Ken, Fusitua and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck were on fire. The forwards look dominant. And the kicker was that how can they judge the form of Bulldogs if they haven't played anyone else yet? Especially when they hyped the shit out of the return of 'The Dogs of War' in the prelude to the games and Foran's 'influence'.
No doubt Rabbits and Storm are good again this year. But the Storm game was the only one that had an obviously more intense pace. Roarters have lost Ferguson but Rabbits have lost arguably more in the 3/4s. They have a tinge of more solid but unspectacular currently IMO.
So to not have Warriors in top 3 minimum is out and out biased and loses any credibility as far as I can see.
They criticized our consistency, so we won our first 7 or 8 games last year. They criticized our results, we made the 8 after 6 years of depression. They criticized our recruitment and said Roger Tuivasa-Sheck would turn to shit here. So he won Dally M player if the year.
They have no credibility when ranking us. They don't even communicate with our club. Because their business is to promote the Australian game. Not to actually make an intelligent comment. And I feel like we crave their approval way too much because we believe that their opinions matter more.
As boofhead as blocker is, if our forwards are going well he'll say what he is seeing with his own qualified eyes.Kent, Ikin and Ennis give their honest opinions. I respect that. And they are balanced.
i dont think he sees Jazz as a small guy.Be interesting to see what Mooks does with the 3 small guys. Cant see all of them being in the side. We would just give too much size away. Roache to start, luke off the bench for his first run in a while. Then I think in following weeks roache might miss out if they return to the status quote with bully starting and jazz off the bench. Burr to keep his spot, papalli off then bench, sorry I still dont see what alot of you see with papalli. Lisone back to isp please !
OK, wash out my mouth with soap for suggesting this....but in 5-6 years, could he be a Kiwi Gallen-Grub?I will probably get slapped for this but Jazz reminds me of Anthony Whatmough. Plays avove his weight and a real pest who could throw opposites of their game. Another apt analogy is junkyard dog.
It is hard to quantify the value of such a player, has the ability to get the ball and have half the opposition coming at him because he has pissed them off so much. Also an energiser bunny who wants the ball all the time and raises the energy of his team.
I lo e watching Jazz, but shit, I hated playing against such players.
It's all a ploy of his so when he drops us down to 15th in his power ratings after we destroy the Tigers, he can say that's because he predicted the Warriors would do that.Didn't Soward have the Tigers higher in his power ratings than the Warriors after last week game?
If so the following picks shows just what a tool he is!
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It's certainly possible.OK, wash out my mouth with soap for suggesting this....but in 5-6 years, could he be a Kiwi Gallen-Grub?