Post Match Titans v Warriors - [Round 25, 2025]

[Boats n Hoes]

Still top 4

Dont have to worry about other results

Destiny still in our own hands

 

[BlackToko88]

Berry looks fine now might have just pulled ip hingerly

 

[LeagueJunkie]

Top 4 baby.

Suck shit Vossy and Brandy.

 

[Zaggo]

Voss and Brandy were absolutely insufferable the entire game. They were so desperate for the Titans to win, and were in complete denial that we're in the top 4.

Suck it losers.

 

[roguei]

CHT looked great that game, had the by far our best short kicking game, great defensive reads, always seemed to be there in support. Really good to see him making that number 6 his spot to lose.

 

[Warriors55]

What I would give to have 3 RTS' this year. 1 at fullback and the other 2 on the wing.

Really hope Rocco is ok. He is a very good player and we need him for the finals. I think he is really underestimated on this forum due to his injuries but if he can string some games together it is going to be good for us.

 

[Ref]

Te Maire was great at hooker.

 

[timburgesstheonlyoneiknow]

Cannot complain. The decision to move CNk to FB and for Berry was shown to be correct.

Boyd / CHT both had strong games and TMM was tidy when he came on. Tve forwards were strong. Nice to see EIT get his first try.

 

[Completion Rate]

Roger MOTM - he is just so safe. Some good minutes for EIT and TSS we will need these guys to have minutes but very disappointed with the minutes of Leka. The right side attack is very poor since Boyd has come in there. Need more threat than Niukore running at players rather than into holes... Berry made Dallin look much better in defence however.

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

Huge game Toeava he looks comfortable in the middle.

 

[Natedogg]

Great on field reffing from the top dawg, whether right or wrong was prepared to play the game as he saw it. Made a huge difference of spending half an hour watching the bunker for once.

I thought he was pretty fair, got some calls wrong, which the bunker did correct ( the try from the titans )

Ash Klein would have sent that up a try all day every fucking day

 

[snake77]

It was good seeing Ieremia-Toeava get some big minutes.

He was doing the basics well. Making his tackles and doing his hit ups. Good confidence that he can play big minutes in the middle.

The try was well deserved. He would have been tired playing his longest minutes in this grade and still did his job there supporting.

 

[Boats n Hoes]

Favourite part was EITs try.

On the back of Leka's charge at the line.

Then Leka and Stowers Smith first ones in the embrace.

Demetric on the bench......the next gen forwards are coming through nicely.

My question is.....where are our next gen backs?

 

[Beastmode]

Shout out to the refs aye.!!!

not cheating for once which was a surprise

 

[JaggedJ]

EIT put in a big shift. Almost 150m in less than 50 minutes. Would like to see if he can emulate it next week. Since Barnett went down we've really needed another reliable 100m+ per game forward to get us rolling in the middle.

 

[JaggedJ]

EIT was mean! Adds some size to our middle, with a log jam of 2nd rowers i hope he stays prop

Best thing about this year regardless of how things end up.

Leka, Demi, TSS, Laban, EIT, Healey...

You wouldn't expect teams to be developing that many rookies in one season and still manage to be competing for top 4.

Good signs for the future.

 

[Kestrel84]

Voss and Brandy were absolutely insufferable the entire game. They were so desperate for the Titans to win, and were in complete denial that we're in the top 4.

Suck it losers.

Amazing how some people hear things so differently and seem to think everyone has it out for them. I can't remember once a game called by Vossy which he has been biased in any way for any team. If anything he has been a great proponent for the Warriors over the years. The fact someone can listen to that and think he wants the other team to win says more about the person that thinks that.

If you take offense to a commentator calling out something as shit when a team is playing shit or makes bad plays - harden up - it happens to every team and I'd rather have honesty than someone blowing smoke up my ass.

 

[sydneywarrior92]

Best thing about this year regardless of how things end up.

Leka, Demi, TSS, Laban, EIT, Healey...

You wouldn't expect teams to be developing that many rookies in one season and still manage to be competing for top 4.

Good signs for the future.

Probably the most underrated aspect of our year. We took a punt in fielding one of the greenest rosters in the comp for this year. Yet despite losing basically half of it through the season, we are still in the box seat for the top 4.

To take perspective, Parra are probably the only other team who took the same risk of moving on their dad's army and blooding their juniors. They are barely out of the wooden spoon race yet NRL pundits just can't get enough of Ryles. Yet not a peep about what Webby has done with our juniors.

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

We played well and put in a good performance. But to be fair, the Titans were poor and played like spooners with consistent errors and giving away penalties and 6 agains that killed their momentum and handed us field position and good ball.

15 errors from the Titans and we enjoyed 54% possession. Quite a one sided game.

You can only play to the opposition and we put our performance together well. It was a relief to have an opposition not playing their best game of the season for once with exceptional error free games and 90+% completion rates!

As good as the young guys are we need to keep this all in mind. It’s a good result for a young team but we need to keep repeating this the next 2 weeks building into the finals.

 

[miket12]

In case you missed it…..

 

[Boats n Hoes]

If we were under any illusion the yardage game of our back 3 isnt critical to the way we play, that game shouldve dispelled it.

Rog, Dal and Charnze racked up 546 metres between them! Close to a thrid of all our metres run.
Not just the metres but they usually win the contact as well getting good ruckspeed for the next hit up. Multiple hit ups in the same set means our middles dont have to work as hard and can conserve energy for defence and especially line speed which is huge to our grinding game of limiting opposition yards.

However it does also highlight imo how our biggest strength can also be our downfall.

Couldnt be a clearer blueprint for oppositions on how to shut us down - stop our back 3!

Cant believe Titans didnt get the memo in this. Its what oppositions have been doing the last 6 weeks or so. Titans line speed on those early tackles were literally non existent.....failing to move up allowed Rog n co to get us back over halfway within 3 runs most of the time......allowed us time and again to execute our territory game that Webby loves.

Its why while happy with the performance im not getting too carried away, 100 percent any top 8 team we play wont afford us the same luxury.

 

[SJ2k]

I'm not sold on martin, I think healey could have made a decent impact last night, its only the fear of losing a half or FB is why martin is picked.

Webby is making a huge mistake here, playing scared. We need to be working Healey into the game plan from 14 NOW. Two clear reasons, one if Egan goes down TMM is not first drop hooker or even second drop. Egan could definitely go down at any time and we're just straight fucked without him. Two, our attack and energy have been flat, playing Healey either side of half time is a great opportunity to work some dynamicism into the team.

What's the fucking point in having TMM at 14. I thought he did ok when he came on, but he's really just bringing injury cover which is playing scared. Our only chance come finals is to maximise upside, which means playing healey at 14 not TMM.

 

[Noitall]

What a game from EIT. 1 try, 13 runs for 147m and 20 tackles and no misses

 

[Makasene]

It's funny our end of season feels a bit like English football.

We're not winning the comp this year but shit Top 4 is something to play for. We're hanging in for that champions league spot.

To give our young guys two finals matches this early in their career would be massive.

 

[VB89]

If we finish 4th it'll be our 4th most successful season ever which is funny given it doesn't feel like it should be.