General Warriors SG Ball 2023

[Bangbros 2023]

Where do you have to finish to play finals? Tough game next week, does anyone know where Laban is?

 

[Viking]

Where do you have to finish to play finals? Tough game next week, does anyone know where Laban is?

There's 16 teams but it's only a 9 week season and 3 week finals series so I think it'll be top 6 with 1st and 2nd placed teams getting a bye in the first finals week maybe.

Warriors are currently 9th with 3 of their last 4 games against teams above them on the table.

 

[Five&Last]

Was at the game, it honestly looked like men playing against boys. The Roosters team was on another level, especially in the halves. Lots of Warrior turnovers thanks to loose carries combined with the Roosters defenders targeting the ball.

Their props were huge. Delasalle Va'a, who the Roosters poached from Broncos as a 15 year old a few years ago, was listed as 6'4 and 115kgs at 15 and looked like he was 6'6 and over 120kgs now. The other starting prop was a big unit too.

Ratu had a bad game but I thought our backs looked a bit faster overall than the Roosters backs. Ralphy Sio had some strong carries and scored a good wingers try. The other winger was getting schooled though. The boys had a lot of scoring opportunities that they couldn't convert into points which is on the playmakers in the team.

The Warriors boys are spinning every pass, maybe it's come from their school rugby background. It stood out to me when the dummy half was taking fractionally longer to spin pass the ball to his runner that was only 3m away from him and the runner was having to reach back to catch the ball.

Interesting points.

Yeah Va’a is some prospect. Was huge deal when he got poached from Brisbane a couple years ago. Absolute monster.

The other wing who was getting schooled was Piliu who is actually a fullback/half (albeit not a very good one). Surprising that they don’t have a back up wing in their squad they can call on especially since it was a home game.

Interesting take on the spiral passes. I actually prefer spiral passes in almost all situations except for a prop running onto the ball from the dummy half. The loopy non-spiral passes for anything more than 5 meter do my absolute head in. I think it’s a skill that a lot of NRL players never properly developed.

Noticed a lot of piss poor 1 on 1 missed tackles in the highlights and a general lack of urgency to clean up kicks (couple on Ratu). Something hopefully Blairsy will be giving them a spray over.

 

[Viking]

Interesting points.

Yeah Va’a is some prospect. Was huge deal when he got poached from Brisbane a couple years ago. Absolute monster.

The other wing who was getting schooled was Piliu who is actually a fullback/half (albeit not a very good one). Surprising that they don’t have a back up wing in their squad they can call on especially since it was a home game.

Interesting take on the spiral passes. I actually prefer spiral passes in almost all situations except for a prop running onto the ball from the dummy half. The loopy non-spiral passes for anything more than 5 meter do my absolute head in. I think it’s a skill that a lot of NRL players never properly developed.

Noticed a lot of piss poor 1 on 1 missed tackles in the highlights and a general lack of urgency to clean up kicks (couple on Ratu). Something hopefully Blairsy will be giving them a spray over.

If there was one player on the field destined for 1st grade, it would be Va'a.

To be fair, I don't know if it was the wingers getting schooled or a byproduct of their inside defenders not coping. Both wingers were beaten on the outside as they were left defending too much space. I don't know how much that was on them but what I do know was that the Roosters were using their wingers frequently whereas I didn't see Ralphy get any ball on the wing until he scored at about 50 minutes and he got another 15m run down the sideline not long after that and that was it. All his other touches were carting the ball out of their own half. I don't remember the other wing getting the ball in space at all.

I agree with spiral passes, especially for length and accuracy but they do take a touch longer to execute which can put the receiver under pressure. I've even seen rugby recommending flat passes when quick ball is needed. The school rugby coaches get the boys to spiral every pass though and I've seen league coaches banning spirals altogether. Players need to excel at both IMO. Watching super rugby, a lot of dropped ball is the passer spiralling to his team mate with the defence too close. Either pop pass or don't pass at all.

That dropped ball off the kick off after they scored summed the day up. Blair was at the far end by the steeplechase pit writing notes, I don't know how he could see what was going on from there to make decisions on the fly but maybe somebody else was doing that for him.

 

[Canadian_WarriorFan]

Panthers won 24-16, however we were winning up to 10 minutes to go. Had a sin bin with 20 minutes ish to go which didn't really help.

 

[TeetsNRL]

Anyone get there early enough Sun to watch game? How did Aumua from Doggies go?