Recruitment Warriors 2026/2027 Recruitment & Retention
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NZ schools rugby team racked up 48 points last night, should get some of them in..
Need to learn to tackle. They leaked 80 something points
Honestly id just be guessing. But id say they did what the Bulldogs did when Gus went there. Stack the team with proven guys to provide a base for the youth to work with. To get these guys you often have to pay overs when your team is a bottom dweller. Look at how much the Bulldogs had to pay to get Critta. It seemed crazy at the time but looks genius now.
The Warriors don't feel like a bottom dwelling team right now. So have that going for them. But personally i wouldn't be upset if they paid overs for a proven talent. Just not overs for Eels bench players.
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Thought it was a basketball score at first glance.
Apparently that score is because the Australians were u18s but NZ principles insisted on NZ still being selected from schools... or somethingNZ schools rugby team racked up 48 points last night, should get some of them in..
Heinz Lemoto from the Aussie 18 left Penrith for a French rugby club. We could have picked him up with our Panther connections.
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Sauce?
Ketchup, or you’ll be left behind
That might be the daddest dad joke in forum history.
Deserves a ban.
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It’s all about the timing. Couldn’t have thrown that in any old time, I bided my time waiting for a Heinz or Watties to come up
I just read about sports science that relates to the Warriors and the NRL:
You have teams with varying degrees of consistency, often ravaged to their x-factor.
Many teams like the Warriors, Panther and Bulldogs aim for a consistent 8/10.
Other teams have up and down form, sometimes 6, sometimes 10 but average 8 as well.
The consistent teams are more likely to reach the finals as they will not drop games to lower teams and might catch better inconsistent teams on a day off. Variable teams across a season will sometimes drop to lower teams on an off day.
So it’s better to aim for consistency as the Warriors are doing.
EXCEPT come finals it statistically flips the consistent 8/10 teams will eventually hit a variable 10/10 team. And the some variable teams will crash out but others will hit form and blow the average ones out of the water - eg Broncos blowing the Panthers away in a 20 minutes burst.
This whole finals season has been a great example where the Bulldogs, Warriors and Panthers dropped away and 2 variable x-factor teams are in the grand final.
So as good as the Warriors strategy is for reaching the finals, it will be limiting come finals season. Sooner or later we need the high risk/ high reward x-factor players.
(Sure Panthers won 4 years in a row but they were consistently 10/10 with consistent but huge x-factor players and are the exception rather than the rule)
You have teams with varying degrees of consistency, often ravaged to their x-factor.
Many teams like the Warriors, Panther and Bulldogs aim for a consistent 8/10.
Other teams have up and down form, sometimes 6, sometimes 10 but average 8 as well.
The consistent teams are more likely to reach the finals as they will not drop games to lower teams and might catch better inconsistent teams on a day off. Variable teams across a season will sometimes drop to lower teams on an off day.
So it’s better to aim for consistency as the Warriors are doing.
EXCEPT come finals it statistically flips the consistent 8/10 teams will eventually hit a variable 10/10 team. And the some variable teams will crash out but others will hit form and blow the average ones out of the water - eg Broncos blowing the Panthers away in a 20 minutes burst.
This whole finals season has been a great example where the Bulldogs, Warriors and Panthers dropped away and 2 variable x-factor teams are in the grand final.
So as good as the Warriors strategy is for reaching the finals, it will be limiting come finals season. Sooner or later we need the high risk/ high reward x-factor players.
(Sure Panthers won 4 years in a row but they were consistently 10/10 with consistent but huge x-factor players and are the exception rather than the rule)
I'd say the Storm are a consistent 8+ out of 10 team though and I would have them as favourites on Sunday, they just play a different style of it to the Panthers.
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Need to be 8/10 through the season to be able to hit 9-10/10 for 3-4 weeks in a row in the finals, we just have our x-factor players injured or playing in the less ideal positions...
