General Warriors NSW Cup 2026

[jonesy101]

Game is live on Sky Sport 3 at 5 pm Saturday.

 

[kos]

Quite a good situation
QLD time
310 pm NSW cup Warriors Bar tv
530 pm NRL Warriors Foxtel
730 pm NRL Titans v Foz
Fotuaika becomes the most capped Titan player with this game. Such a humble hard working guy.

 

[kos]

Better news
Warriors nsw cup game v drags is on Foxtel.

 

[JaggedJ]

So Fats Hanson and Tafua will play NSW cup and be on the bench for first grade
Maybe some late changes to Cup side?

Hanson is the interesting one. Seems odd to be named on the bench and Cup.

Tafua and Fats are reserves, which almost always sees them drop off 24 hours beforehand when also named in cup.

RTS is probably an outside chance and has been named just encase he comes good.

Only thing I can think of is that if RTS comes good then Pompey drops to Cup and Linnane slots into 6 in NSW Cup but they don't want to give it away.

Webby playing some shenanigans.

 

[kos]

Hanson is the interesting one. Seems odd to be named on the bench and Cup.

Tafua and Fats are reserves, which almost always sees them drop off 24 hours beforehand when also named in cup.

RTS is probably an outside chance and has been named just encase he comes good.

Only thing I can think of is that if RTS comes good then Pompey drops to Cup and Linnane slots into 6 in NSW Cup but they don't want to give it away.

Webby playing some shenanigans.

Linnane at 6 would be v interesting
RTS won’t play and Pompey won’t play Cup
RTS might end up playing cup game after this.

 

[sup42]

Connor Bowden at second row is interesting after generally playing in the backs. Linnane staying at centre will be pleasing for sup42 and disappointing for Dannevegas that he’s not fullback

You saved me typing that out lol.

It is a no brainer, the club is desperately short of fit and talented centers. Even Ali isn't an experienced and or reliable center if you look at his history.

Now we might have another Clinton Toopi (and what should have been Ruben Wiki and even Nigel Vagana) level of threat in our backline.

 

[JaggedJ]

Linnane at 6 would be v interesting
RTS won’t play and Pompey won’t play Cup
RTS might end up playing cup game after this.

I don't expect RTS to play at all this week, so Hanson will probably be 20 and a late Cup scratching for someone else coming up like Thompson.

I don't see RTS playing in NSW Cup when he's healthy.

 

[Dannevegas]

Connor Bowden at second row is interesting after generally playing in the backs. Linnane staying at centre will be pleasing for sup42 and disappointing for Dannevegas that he’s not fullback

Why would he be fullback when the Goat, Geronimo’s there?

 

[sup42]

Why would he be fullback when the Goat, Geronimo’s there?

People complain about Geronimo blocking others.

I see it the opposite way around, he is holding the position to bridge the gap between this season and when Joseph Ratcliff is ready.

In that regard he is serving a purpose. Ratcliff is obviously the heir to Taine's spot. CNK is done (depth player, Taine gets banged up a lot so we need Charnze).

No slight on Charnze. But the thing that separated him from Taine was kick return meters. And Taine has found his role in that function by stealing those meters late in the tackle count.

We have hard running Wingers with AKP picking up some slack (amazing arc from the Titans version) and the other area that Charnze led Taine was in defence (try saving tackles on the line he is still better) but Taine is a much better last man on an enemy fast break, his ability to shadow and herd a player to the side line (the 14th defender) is elite and something Charnze never mastered.

 

[Dannevegas]

You saved me typing that out lol.

It is a no brainer, the club is desperately short of fit and talented centers. Even Ali isn't an experienced and or reliable center if you look at his history.

Now we might have another Clinton Toopi (and what should have been Ruben Wiki and even Nigel Vagana) level of threat in our backline.

People complain about Geronimo blocking others.

I see it the opposite way around, he is holding the position to bridge the gap between this season and when Joseph Ratcliff is ready.

In that regard he is serving a purpose. Ratcliff is obviously the heir to Taine's spot. CNK is done.

Exciting times when Ratcliffe and Norris are ready. I think they should be in cup now tho.

 

[sup42]

Exciting times when Ratcliffe and Norris are ready. I think they should be in cup now tho.

I don't, they're not big guys, young bones and muscles, huge potential, a First grade side that is coming second on the table, what is the rush?

 

[Dannevegas]

I don't, they're not big guys, young bones and muscles, huge potential, a First grade side that is coming second on the table, what is the rush?

Norris is 20 and Ratcliffe is 19, I’d rather see them Develop in cup at this stage. Especially when we’ve got Doyle and Amituanai who aren’t part of the future plans, more just gap fillers.

 

[Christchurch_Warrior]

Norris is 20 and Ratcliffe is 19, I’d rather see them Develop in cup at this stage. Especially when we’ve got Doyle and Amituanai who aren’t part of the future plans, more just gap fillers.

Have to agree. What if Taine goes down? If we had Ratcliffe developing in cup and doing well he could be cover. We all know Doyle will not make the FG side so why persist in having him play a spine role?