TeamList Storm vs Warriors - [Round 2, 2024]

[The Warrior Waka]

I'm just happy the 2 Munsters are out. Cameron & Big ass Herman.

 

[Makasene]

Big game this week.

The more time that had passed since Friday the more disturbed I am at how easy we were put off our game.

A repeat of that against Melbourne wouldn't be time for panic stations but already the realist in me thinks this team still probably isn't quite there.

 

[Makasene]

I actually think that’s a valid point. I have wondered if the Warriors train in the evening to mimic game time. I always hear how the have early starts during the week. Surely playing past 9pm would have an impact on performance, if they’re starting there days at 5am-6am.

Personally I think the match time is secondary to the travel factor. Late matches are always played in Aus.

We lost only one late game last year, the Broncos Semi.

We beat a couple of poor teams in that timeslot last year.

 

[3rdstriker]

Ali and Foreman fought at three AM in the morning and threw the most punches ever seen in a heavy weight fight, a record that lasted till David Tua and Hazim Rahman broke it in their twelve round epic.

The 12 round classic that broke the record was Tua vs Ibeabuchi,
Ibeabuchi was never the same after he complained of voices in his head and developed serious mental illness.

 

[Pop Dukez]

Two more sleeps + a nana nap Sat arvo (late kick off ) to go. It’s all down hill after 40 but on the flip side the climb seemed never ending.

Honest yet slightly bias prediction:

16-18 Warriors

 

[Possum11]

If Wayde egan plays on Saturday we will win

 

[Noitall]

Storm forum of the opinion that either Blore, who had a good game for the feeder team falcons or Faalogo could come onto the bench for Alec McDonald. Really would like to see our pack stand up against the storm, particularly bench front rowers. Unlikely to see a huge shift in Bunty but a big opportunity for Ale with the departing AFB who didn’t get onto the field against the sharks because of injury circumstances. Could see a lift in the sharks front rowers who are playing for their place next season with AFB arriving

 

[sup42]

We aimed up in a big way last year against the Storm with arguably on paper a weaker side than we are rolling out this week.

Lussick was hooker.

Walker was stand off.

Kosi on the wing.

Pompey at center (very contentious to say Roger is a better center at this stage because Pompeys defence kept us in big games against star Centers).

Montoya was at Center, I think it is fair to argue that Roger and or Berry are more dynamic options than Marcello.

Bayley Sirronen was on the bench with Bunty and Ale. If Capewell plays you would think he brings more than Bayley and as much as the other bench player that night in Curran.

We did have Marata playing that night though.

A key player in that good loss was Jazz till injured.

I expect (until proven wrong) that the Warriors will aim up again this time around, I struggle to imagine a Universe under Webster where the Warriors will come in anything less than fizzing to have a go at the Storm.

As such I am really looking forward to this game. It does not get any better.

I am more concerned with Taine at Fullback than Lussick at hooker.

CNK was a vital link player in two of our try's vs the Storm which put Air Dallin in the corner. It is not fair to expect Taine to do that at this stage.

And lumping on another layer of worry, Melbourne scored two of their Try's off kicks against us because they could not go through us as easily as we were carving them, again you look to the fullback playing for the Warriors for that type of Try line defence.

Do I want Roger at Fullback over Taine already? heart say's yes, head say's no!

Now a lot of folk will say I have the head and heart mixed up.

I do not. Thing is, Roger will be the great center the Warriors need to activate a left edge attack, and the sooner he gets there, the more likely we are to play finals football, I truly believe that Metcalf and Roger clicking is the answer to elevating this team up into the stratosphere, the upper top four, therefore bite down hard, grin and bear it, Roger becoming a superstar center is more important than winning one single game in round two.

Furthermore, you could make and argument (I do anyway) that we need Taine to be a really good replacement fullback, and I think he is capable, if you put Roger there, you basically waste a development opportunity for both players to learn to be specialists.

Long term, if you want Roger to be a killer, you make him into something new, otherwise, you create a CNK vs RTS battle which is silly when you have a fullback as good as CNK. Those boys (CNK and RTS) are clones already, they play so similar it is not funny, if you can make one something different for the sake of the team then stick with it. Force Roger to adopt his new role.

Also if Taine cracks it, then we have serious depth, the kind of depth you miss out on if you put RTS ahead of Taine as Fullback replacement.

And therein lies the rub, the Warriors, to take the next step, need to show they have crazy depth in their junior players, otherwise when Old Roger retires, what do they have? more of the same, lose a veteran, no one ready to walk in and keep winning games.

It is time we start backing all of our Juniors, we have the system headed by the right coach, play Juniors like Taine in their specialist roles and believe in the system.

 

[kos]

Great post.
Encapsulates what I feel but struggle to get into a few paragraphs
Nice to acknowledge Pompey too.
This is what Ivan does too brings up lower graders to replace eventually top players lost to salary cap issues.

 

[sup42]

Great post.
Encapsulates what I feel but struggle to get into a few paragraphs
Nice to acknowledge Pompey too.
This is what Ivan does too brings up lower graders to replace eventually top players lost to salary cap issues.

That nasty Storm side we are facing is stacked typically with young players who look just like their old players, that is why they are a dynasty too.

 

[Noitall]

We aimed up in a big way last year against the Storm with arguably on paper a weaker side than we are rolling out this week.

Lussick was hooker.

Walker was stand off.

Kosi on the wing.

Pompey at center (very contentious to say Roger is a better center at this stage because Pompeys defence kept us in big games against star Centers).

Montoya was at Center, I think it is fair to argue that Roger and or Berry are more dynamic options than Marcello.

Bayley Sirronen was on the bench with Bunty and Ale. If Capewell plays you would think he brings more than Bayley and as much as the other bench player that night in Curran.

We did have Marata playing that night though.

A key player in that good loss was Jazz till injured.

I expect (until proven wrong) that the Warriors will aim up again this time around, I struggle to imagine a Universe under Webster where the Warriors will come in anything less than fizzing to have a go at the Storm.

As such I am really looking forward to this game. It does not get any better.

I am more concerned with Taine at Fullback than Lussick at hooker.

CNK was a vital link player in two of our try's vs the Storm which put Air Dallin in the corner. It is not fair to expect Taine to do that at this stage.

And lumping on another layer of worry, Melbourne scored two of their Try's off kicks against us because they could not go through us as easily as we were carving them, again you look to the fullback playing for the Warriors for that type of Try line defence.

Do I want Roger at Fullback over Taine already? heart say's yes, head say's no!

Now a lot of folk will say I have the head and heart mixed up.

I do not. Thing is, Roger will be the great center the Warriors need to activate a left edge attack, and the sooner he gets there, the more likely we are to play finals football, I truly believe that Metcalf and Roger clicking is the answer to elevating this team up into the stratosphere, the upper top four, therefore bite down hard, grin and bear it, Roger becoming a superstar center is more important than winning one single game in round two.

Furthermore, you could make and argument (I do anyway) that we need Taine to be a really good replacement fullback, and I think he is capable, if you put Roger there, you basically waste a development opportunity for both players to learn to be specialists.

Long term, if you want Roger to be a killer, you make him into something new, otherwise, you create a CNK vs RTS battle which is silly when you have a fullback as good as CNK. Those boys (CNK and RTS) are clones already, they play so similar it is not funny, if you can make one something different for the sake of the team then stick with it. Force Roger to adopt his new role.

Also if Taine cracks it, then we have serious depth, the kind of depth you miss out on if you put RTS ahead of Taine as Fullback replacement.

And therein lies the rub, the Warriors, to take the next step, need to show they have crazy depth in their junior players, otherwise when Old Roger retires, what do they have? more of the same, lose a veteran, no one ready to walk in and keep winning games.

It is time we start backing all of our Juniors, we have the system headed by the right coach, play Juniors like Taine in their specialist roles and believe in the system.

Would like to see Tuaupiki run with the same intent he did in the 79th minute and back himself. A couple of things that concerned me were Ford still is good for a mistake or two and costly ones and DWZ still jams in when there’s no need. Both led to sharks tries, in Ford’s case a poor defensive effort on Ramien. DWZ will get burned by the storm wingers if he continues to jam in

 

[tyrael]

14 reasons why the Warriors won't beat the Storm

It’s no doubt the worst-case scenario for the Warriors to avoid a 0-2 start.

www.nzherald.co.nz

 

[WahsaurusRex]

Media team stays killing it



Even got the sponsorships for both teams on the cars lol

 

[Stalefish540]

We aimed up in a big way last year against the Storm with arguably on paper a weaker side than we are rolling out this week.

Lussick was hooker.

Walker was stand off.

Kosi on the wing.

Pompey at center (very contentious to say Roger is a better center at this stage because Pompeys defence kept us in big games against star Centers).

Montoya was at Center, I think it is fair to argue that Roger and or Berry are more dynamic options than Marcello.

Bayley Sirronen was on the bench with Bunty and Ale. If Capewell plays you would think he brings more than Bayley and as much as the other bench player that night in Curran.

We did have Marata playing that night though.

A key player in that good loss was Jazz till injured.

I expect (until proven wrong) that the Warriors will aim up again this time around, I struggle to imagine a Universe under Webster where the Warriors will come in anything less than fizzing to have a go at the Storm.

As such I am really looking forward to this game. It does not get any better.

I am more concerned with Taine at Fullback than Lussick at hooker.

CNK was a vital link player in two of our try's vs the Storm which put Air Dallin in the corner. It is not fair to expect Taine to do that at this stage.

And lumping on another layer of worry, Melbourne scored two of their Try's off kicks against us because they could not go through us as easily as we were carving them, again you look to the fullback playing for the Warriors for that type of Try line defence.

Do I want Roger at Fullback over Taine already? heart say's yes, head say's no!

Now a lot of folk will say I have the head and heart mixed up.

I do not. Thing is, Roger will be the great center the Warriors need to activate a left edge attack, and the sooner he gets there, the more likely we are to play finals football, I truly believe that Metcalf and Roger clicking is the answer to elevating this team up into the stratosphere, the upper top four, therefore bite down hard, grin and bear it, Roger becoming a superstar center is more important than winning one single game in round two.

Furthermore, you could make and argument (I do anyway) that we need Taine to be a really good replacement fullback, and I think he is capable, if you put Roger there, you basically waste a development opportunity for both players to learn to be specialists.

Long term, if you want Roger to be a killer, you make him into something new, otherwise, you create a CNK vs RTS battle which is silly when you have a fullback as good as CNK. Those boys (CNK and RTS) are clones already, they play so similar it is not funny, if you can make one something different for the sake of the team then stick with it. Force Roger to adopt his new role.

Also if Taine cracks it, then we have serious depth, the kind of depth you miss out on if you put RTS ahead of Taine as Fullback replacement.

And therein lies the rub, the Warriors, to take the next step, need to show they have crazy depth in their junior players, otherwise when Old Roger retires, what do they have? more of the same, lose a veteran, no one ready to walk in and keep winning games.

It is time we start backing all of our Juniors, we have the system headed by the right coach, play Juniors like Taine in their specialist roles and believe in the system.

I wish my adhd would allow me to read all of that.

But I agree regardless, due to length of post effort

If Egan plays majority of the game we are more than a chance.

 

[Noitall]

Surprise game everyone can agree on; Dogs no hope against Sharks: Fox League Expert Tips

Surprise game everyone can agree on; underdog who is no hope: Fox League Expert Tips

www.foxsports.com.au

A few sticking with us

 

[ndp26]

Surprise game everyone can agree on; Dogs no hope against Sharks: Fox League Expert Tips

Surprise game everyone can agree on; underdog who is no hope: Fox League Expert Tips

www.foxsports.com.au

A few sticking with us

Of note, Greg Alexander! Nearly fell off the couch reading that, haha

 

[ndp26]

Of NRL's list of "experts", only Johns is backing us this week (after all of them had backed us in last week).

NRL Tipping: Expert tips for Round 2

See who our experts think will win in Round 2 of the 2024 NRL Telstra Premiership!

www.nrl.com

 

[Noitall]

Of note, Greg Alexander! Nearly fell off the couch reading that, haha

What I did like was with all the upsets at the weekend that Voss and Roach picked well and has us to win

 

[sup42]

I wish my adhd would allow me to read all of that.

But I agree regardless, due to length of post effort

If Egan plays majority of the game we are more than a chance.

adhd?

All good.

Let me surmise (like make it smaller for you).

Up da Wahs! Smash da Storm, Egan to make us better.

I have a learning disability too.

I know you have no problem reading posts given your replies.

People who complain about the length of posts should just scroll on.

Coz What the interweb desperately needs is more one sentence statements.

 

[Lance155]

adhd?

All good.

Let me surmise (like make it smaller for you).

Up da Wahs! Smash da Storm, Egan to make us better.

I have a learning disability too.

I know you have no problem reading posts given your replies.

People who complain about the length of posts should just scroll on.

Coz What the interweb desperately needs is more one sentence statements.

To be fair I do scroll on for that very reason. Problem is it takes a few scrolls due to the length.