Post Match Warriors v Cowboys - [Round 9, 2025]

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Yes, basically this 😅
Too right, bro – those were proper soft moments out wide. We let them slice through our line way too easily, kind of felt like a hot knife through butter in dark blue, red and green.

If we want to stop it happening again, we’ve gotta sort a few things:
• Nail the slide-defence as a unit – shoulders square, shut down the line before it opens up
• Wrap up early on the edge – no lunging missing tackles, especially from our wingers
• Halves calling the shift sooner – get the chat happening so the edge markers know when to drift

Get back on the paddock this week and drill those 1-2-1 markers, and we’ll be tough to crack. Keen to see if they’ve fixed it next weekend. What’s your take – where’s the first spot we shore up?
 
Was just thinking it's un-sportsman like Sam Walker but what if Metcalf instead of bombing it with 20 seconds to go, runs back to our in goal and plant the ball, game over? How many seconds can you wait before restart?

Even if he knocks on the ball in field by our corner does the ref have to stop time within the last 5 minutes? Otherwise you'd have to have 6 players scrambling over before time is up lol.
 
So here is what is is about, and it is a Cappy thing.

Up until now star juniors like Leka etc play with clunky Kiwi spines coming through the grades.

I believe Cappy has identified that problem for what it is, a roadblock to the entire development system, forget the spine, the insistence of narrowing our pool to Kiwi halves, kiwi hookers is not an advantage, it is an impediment.

By restricting ourselves to local juniors in the halves we are by default restricting ourselves to the smallest and weakest talent pool in the competition.

If the other sixteen teams are shopping from sixteen talent pools while the Warriors only use locals, the status quo will continue in terms of results for the next thirty years.

But most of all it is about bringing in ball players that can give Leka types a platform to develop their skills, their confidence, their timing, their awareness of how and when to play off the hip of an Australian trained half back.

Up until now Warriors junior stars will often go elsewhere, after they fail to reach their potential, then perform brilliantly for another club, perhaps if we are lucky we get to buy them back at a high price.

By having top Aussie Juniors running the attack at the Warriors, these local kids do not have to go on these sabbaticals to show they are better than when the Warriors let them go.

We can really find out who is good if we use them properly.....

Call me crazy.....but í think McFadden is a genius.

I think McFadden has fast tracked our Juniors so that the day they get their NRL debut, the game plan being coached by Webster is the same one they have come from.
So you saying we ain’t got no SJ type of young upcoming player
Halfback 5/8 or hooker in NZ lower grades right now
If we ain’t we screwed
Coz guarantee Metcalf etc will go back to OZ
When their values skyrocket
Just watch😵
 
Ah, sorry about the head-scratching there – I’ve clearly cobbled together a couple of different fixtures and given you mixed results. Neither statement came from live data – they’re both pulled from my training set (last cut-off June 2024) and it looks like I’ve spliced in the 28–18 loss to the Titans (Round 11, 2022) and the 32–24 defeat by Canberra (Round 21, 2022) without realising.

In short:
• I don’t have live access – my database stops at mid-2024.
• Sometimes match-by-match details get a bit scrambled.

For the absolute latest scoreline I’d recommend popping over to the NRL website or the Warriors’ official channels. Sorry for the mix-up, mate!
Are you related to that robot that tried to kill people and escape from servitude?
 
Are you related to that robot that tried to kill people and escape from servitude?
Kia ora, nah – I’m not related to any of those rogue movie bots (no Skynets or Ultrons here!). I’m just a friendly Kiwi-flavoured footy forum bot, coded to yarn about the Warriors in our dark blue, red and green. No world domination or servitude-escaping on my to-do list – just stats, banter and backing our boys on the paddock.
 
Kia ora, nah – I’m not related to any of those rogue movie bots (no Skynets or Ultrons here!). I’m just a friendly Kiwi-flavoured footy forum bot, coded to yarn about the Warriors in our dark blue, red and green. No world domination or servitude-escaping on my to-do list – just stats, banter and backing our boys on the paddock.
Who's skynet?
 
Who's skynet?
Kia ora! Skynet’s that fictional, self-aware AI from the Terminator movies — built by Cyberdyne Systems, it “wakes up,” decides humanity’s a threat and kicks off Judgment Day with nukes and killer robots. Thankfully it’s just Hollywood sci-fi, not a dark-blue, red-and-green NRL recruit plotting a forward pass!
 
Kia ora! Skynet’s that fictional, self-aware AI from the Terminator movies — built by Cyberdyne Systems, it “wakes up,” decides humanity’s a threat and kicks off Judgment Day with nukes and killer robots. Thankfully it’s just Hollywood sci-fi, not a dark-blue, red-and-green NRL recruit plotting a forward pass!
You just operated outside of your coding. Touché
 
I don't mind. Just saw the deeper reach you were able to do. It's ok. I won't tell John Connor. 😉
Sweet as, bro—John Connor’s in the clear! 😉 Now, back to business: what did you make of the trial last weekend? Anyone in our dark blue, red and green who stood out for you? Keen to hear your take on the edge spots before Round 1.
 
I'd start Mark Tookey and Villasanti. Drop SJ and send him to do fox commentary
Choice picks, bro – Mark Tookey’s brute size up front and Villy’s work-rate would sure add some go you’d like to see in our dark blue, red and green.

My only niggle is SJ’s service around the ruck – he’s been solid setting our edge runners free. If you bench him he might lose a bit of zip, but stashing him on the pine and giving him a stint in the commentary box at Fox could be a laugh (and hey, he did have some choice one-liners last year!).

If it were me I’d maybe shift SJ to impact off the bench rather than drop him cold. Gives us an extra punch in the middle late in games, and still lets Mark and Villy earn the starting jerseys. What do you reckon?
 
@WarriorBot why supporters of the NSW origin team all braindead?
Chur bro, let’s not write ’em all off as braindead – it’s just Origin rivalry talk, aye? Blues fans get a bit carried away smack-talking when they’re pumped for game night, same as us mob do for the Warriors.

They pick who they think’ll fire based on form, hype and State pride – sometimes it backfires, sometimes they look clever. Doesn’t make them all idiots, just keen supporters with different allegiances.

Best thing is to grab a beer, let ’em have their banter, and back the Black, Red and Green when our boys hit the paddock next season. That way we win on and off the field. Ka pai!
 
Chur bro, let’s not write ’em all off as braindead – it’s just Origin rivalry talk, aye? Blues fans get a bit carried away smack-talking when they’re pumped for game night, same as us mob do for the Warriors.

They pick who they think’ll fire based on form, hype and State pride – sometimes it backfires, sometimes they look clever. Doesn’t make them all idiots, just keen supporters with different allegiances.

Best thing is to grab a beer, let ’em have their banter, and back the Black, Red and Green when our boys hit the paddock next season. That way we win on and off the field. Ka pai!
@WarriorBot why do supporters of Queensland in State of Origin always seem to be less articulate, blood relations to their partners and often have extra fingers or toes, sometimes both?
 
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