TeamList Preseason 2025 Trial 1 - Warriors vs Sharks

[WarriorsForever]

First TLT of the year!

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

I'm picking an more full strength up front and not so much vs storm?

As we say all year, please no injuries!

 

[Warriorsfan92]

Tough one to call. Normally first trial is full of cup players & young players, or underdone boys. With Vegas not far away, they might need to get as much combinations as possible

 

[Lance155]

Yea wonder if we will handle trials differently to Vegas. Do we know what the teams did last year? I feel like they only played 1 trial?

 

[Teets]

Could be wrong but think they'll just do it the same way they normally do.

Two weeks between the Storm trial and Vegas, doubt they take a team to the states who haven't played at all in three weeks.

Plus there's a week off after so recovery isn't a huge deal and you don't want to go into round 2 in mid March on the back of one game in the last month.

 

[WahsaurusRex]

Yea wonder if we will handle trials differently to Vegas. Do we know what the teams did last year? I feel like they only played 1 trial?

First week was most of the starting line up with some omissions, about 80% of the way there

The second week was an absolute shit show of "who is that guy?" lol

They didn't give last year's Vegas teams a week head start on preseason games like they have for us this year. I guess that is meant to make up for us not playing a Vegas team in Round 2

 

[run_it_str8_again]

Probably name 47 players on the bench

 

[mrblonde]

Yea wonder if we will handle trials differently to Vegas. Do we know what the teams did last year? I feel like they only played 1 trial?

2 trials last year. The 1st as I recall much more NSW Cup/Non NRL players picked by both sides.
Interesting to see if SJ's retirement means AW's preferred half combo start both games and take the majority of the 160m gametime. And what effect TH's retirement has on selections...

 

[Kestrel84]

If we're going to feature our Round 1 halves at any point in the two trial games, I'd rather it be game 1. If some tragic injury occurs, as least we have a second trial and a extra week or two to adjust to a new reality.

 

[slime]

Here are the team lists from last season's preseason games v round 1:

• https://www.warriors.kiwi/news/2024/02/18/trial-team-list-rts-cht-back/
• https://www.warriors.kiwi/news/2024/02/20/trial-team-list-big-names-back/
• https://www.warriors.kiwi/news/2024/03/08/nrl-rd-1-team-list-metcalf-in/

Week 2 was basically the Round 1 team, with a couple of changes to the bench.
Niukore didn't play till Round 4 - must have been injured.

 

[Lance155]

Here are the team lists from last season's preseason games v round 1:

• https://www.warriors.kiwi/news/2024/02/18/trial-team-list-rts-cht-back/
• https://www.warriors.kiwi/news/2024/02/20/trial-team-list-big-names-back/
• https://www.warriors.kiwi/news/2024/03/08/nrl-rd-1-team-list-metcalf-in/

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Week 2 was basically the Round 1 team, with a couple of changes to the bench.
Niukore didn't play till Round 4 - must have been injured.

Thanks for making that up. Interesting that Metcalf played the 7 with CHT in round 1. 12 months obviously a long time, but from memory they performed really well in that game.

 

[roguei]

If we're going to feature our Round 1 halves at any point in the two trial games, I'd rather it be game 1. If some tragic injury occurs, as least we have a second trial and a extra week or two to adjust to a new reality.

Here are the team lists from last season's preseason games v round 1:

• https://www.warriors.kiwi/news/2024/02/18/trial-team-list-rts-cht-back/
• https://www.warriors.kiwi/news/2024/02/20/trial-team-list-big-names-back/
• https://www.warriors.kiwi/news/2024/03/08/nrl-rd-1-team-list-metcalf-in/

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Week 2 was basically the Round 1 team, with a couple of changes to the bench.
Niukore didn't play till Round 4 - must have been injured.

Yeah I think it was a foot injury and then I think in round 4 or 5 he ends up injuring the other foot. Real bad season injury wise for him.

 

[tajhay]

View: https://x.com/DaveRic1/status/1886583148642800045?t=kGdPIqwHo8XQ0g-pY_FmrA&s=19

 

[Canonball]

Here are the team lists from last season's preseason games v round 1:

• https://www.warriors.kiwi/news/2024/02/18/trial-team-list-rts-cht-back/
• https://www.warriors.kiwi/news/2024/02/20/trial-team-list-big-names-back/
• https://www.warriors.kiwi/news/2024/03/08/nrl-rd-1-team-list-metcalf-in/

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Week 2 was basically the Round 1 team, with a couple of changes to the bench.
Niukore didn't play till Round 4 - must have been injured.

What were they even doing with that first trial team?? Sorta pointless, running a long tail of cup players from the interchange thru reserves and running alternates in almost every starting position except, I guess, looking at Rog acclimatizing to centre ... waste of time surely? Hopefully this year with the earlier start they aren't fucking around so much

 

[tajhay]

Rugby League will return with the largest possible bang with the world’s greatest prop in the eyes of many set to play his first game for the Warriors on Friday night.
James Fisher-Harris, the four-time premiership-winner with Penrith and 2023 Golden Boot winner, will join an almost full-strength Warriors line-up in the opening pre-season trial match of the year against Cronulla at Sharks Stadium.

Fisher-Harris dropped a bombshell last April when orchestrating a behind-the-scenes exit from Penrith, the club he joined as a teenager, to sign a four-year deal with the Warriors.
https://www.supercoach.com.au/nrl
Fisher-Harris’ last NRL appearance was in the 2024 grand final for Penrith against the Storm in front of more than 80,000 fans.

In stark contrast, the powerful prop will commence his career as a Warrior in front of a few thousand footy-starved supporters at Sharks Stadium.

Joining Fisher-Harris in the Warriors trial match line-up are big guns Charnze Nicol-Klokstad, Wayde Egan, Mitchell Barnett, Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, Marata Niukore, Luke Metcalf and Te Mare Martin.

Roger Tuivasa-Sheck and Chanel Harris-Tavita may be held back from the opening trial.

The reason why the Warriors will field so many heavyweights is due to the upcoming All Stars fixture, which the Warriors will be major contributors and therefore be unavailable for the club’s second trial against the Storm.

Warriors coach Andrew Webster can ill-afford to waste time forming key combinations prior to flying to Las Vegas to tackle the Raiders.

Sharks coach Craig Fitzgibbon will resist playing his biggest names including Nicho Hynes, Addin Fonua-Blake, Blayke Brailey, Jesse Ramien and Ronaldo Mulitalo.

However, the likes of Sifa Talakai, Braden Hamlin-Uele, Sione Katoa, Sam Stonestreet, Will Kennedy, Billy Burns and Jayden Berrell will all feature. Kick-off is at 7.30pm.

 

[JustLikeStartingOver]

Can see the idea of putting out the NSW cup team in the second trial and "saving" the name players for the early Vegas trip - flipping what we normally do. And we normally look pretty average in rd 1 so who's to say this isn't a better way to do it.

 

[Nakiproud]

It will be what it will be...who's likely to be in the all stars game from the warriors???

 

[Inruin]

It will be what it will be...who's likely to be in the all stars game from the warriors???

We should be seriously considering graciously declining anyone picked IMO

 

[Nakiproud]

Well other than i really dont want any injuries in the pre season i was really hoping to see some of the guns in hamilton..anyway whatever is best for the club and the players works for me

 

[WA Warrior]

We should be seriously considering graciously declining anyone picked IMO

I think the Vegas teams will get some grace if those 4 teams players pull out this year.