Post Match Warriors v Eels - [Round 26, 2025]

[Funky Ed Koosie]

Just fucking lie Demi

 

[Matiunz]

Was expecting a loss but that was a bit of a rough one, just one of those games where Parra got the luck with them. Wish we would play with intensity for 80 mins for once though

 

[The Warrior Waka]

His effort is awesome. If he was faster, more elusive and had some ball play in him and was younger then......

Can't knock his work ethic. He lacks everything else. A few times he could of passed to players in gaps, Example Berry hit a huge gap with speed & cnk held it. He did that often. Watching old man Tedesco hit holes with speed and break tackles makes me jealous lol.

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Honestly we were the better team in most areas but we shouldn’t be surprised our attack sucks - it’s been like that all season.

Once we were miles behind the ref was giving everything our way to keep us in the contest. The score flatters us. Hence they contested 3 refs calls and we didn’t even need to contest any!

Time to start the cycle - bitch and moan for 24 hours, depressed resignation then building to being pumped later in the week for the next game!

 

[snake77]

Some of our experienced guys have some terrible play the balls. Though CNK, RTS, Capewell in particular were lucky not to get pulled up a few times.

The young guys manage to get their foot to it or at least close when they miss.

Some of the older guys are a real threat for a roll ball penalty.

 

[Makasene]

That was one of those games where in general play there wasn't much between them. Some swings in momentum.

The key thing was for the majority of it the same team kept scoring.

I disagree.

We completely dominated them.

Statistically the expected score should have been something like 20 - 12 to Warriors.

We gave up far too many points vs field position.

It's a killer really

 

[1995warriorsfan]

Srill pissed off

 

[Beastmode]

Demi said he touched it thought it went back

Webby needs a quiet word with him
He didn’t touch it

 

[ninj]

Can't blame the stadium for our shit performances. We get awesome crowds. The boys shit the bed at home for some reason.

Needs to be like a cauldron or a pit where opposing sides absolutely hates to play. Like the NFL Lumen Field (Seattle Seahawks) stadium so loud the players can't hear the qb calling signals.

 

[Tookey 2.0]

Im not sure on Erin, Leka yes. But the only two who stood out as playing well were RTS and Pompey imo.

Yeah, Erin only 140m and 28 tackles less than 50 minutes. Bloke should be ashamed.

Charnz...average. Only 320m.
Fish? Terrible. Only 180m.
DWZ, another poor performance. 170m and no poor reads.

Guys, some of yas need to get a grip. Yes, we didn't win and there were some poor aspects for sure, but the effort is clearly there.

Just one of those nights when things go against you. I think, up until the 35 min when Moses kicked and it ricoched off our player back into an Eel for an error was our first bit of luck. Everything fell their way.
When was the last 100m try in the first 5 minutes of a game? That shit neeeever happens.

Imo that's the best we've played in about 5 games and we lost. That's ruba leeg for ya

 

[regenerated borg]

Gave the boys an A we won that game , got screwed by the bunker Pompeys try was legal no knock on... fuck love this game and team but shit Aussies officials don't want us any where near the winners circle..

 

[The Warrior Waka]

Needs to be like a cauldron or a pit where opposing sides absolutely hates to play. Like the NFL Lumen Field (Seattle Seahawks) stadium so loud the players can't hear the qb calling signals.

But we are! One Stadium and our supporters are loud and parochial! Probably the best supporters in the NRL. Our boys have had a shitty mental block at home this year.

 

[Wah u talkin about Wallis]

If we get 5 or 6 ,do we get a home final? If so a hope tactically we are going for that.

 

[Matiunz]

Also, what the fuck was Moses crying about in his interview afterwards. Penalty count was 3-5 to us. Sounded like he implied we got a massive leg up?

Eels fans feel they were hard done by. There was a moment in the game where Moses was told to “be very careful” by the ref, didn’t catch exactly what he said but it was along the lines of asking why we (Warriors) were getting all the calls

 

[snake77]

Some shape around Leka would be nice.

That first try should have been an indication on how to play. When we get down there with get some shape and run hard and direct.

The Leka try in the second when he went through also should have been a hint.

A lot of the other teams see something that works and keep going back to it.

Leka would be more effective running hard into gaps instead of being used one out getting tackled by two people.

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

He definitely touched it. But it didn’t go forward.

He didn’t touch it with enough force to alter its direction - forward.

That’s why nobody could tell if he even touched it.

It was a 50/50 possibly with it going up a try but we’ve had our share of 50/50’s this season. Shit happens.

 

[Warrior#138]

I hope Webster in the preseason practices a plan B. We are so predictable that other teams know exactly what we are doing.

Our young guys were good tonight. TMM looked good coming on tonight. DWZ looked like he was high. No urgency at all. Clark a beast as per usual. CNK was poor. I know his stats will show he ran over 300M but everywhere else he was poor.

At least our young guys will experience 1 finals game which is all we will likely get.

That plan B needs speed and X factor. Apart from Leka I do t know who the other guys would fear in those clutch moments. RTS, Pompey and Egan all look threatening but then generally die with the ball. I think we have to bring some of that riskier play back into our gameplan in a calculated way. And we need more threats with the ball in hand to execute. Speed is the answer on the flanks. We need a gun. A Desert Eagle. Or a Magnum .357.

 

[Te Mana-wah]

I don't understand why some of you are banging on about soft defence or lack or creativity or too many errors. We were in a position to win and earnt that opportunity/try only to be once gain ripped off with poor officiating. That was a shit call! We get the pointy end of the stick all the time. It won't change.

These Aussie motherfuckers don't want us to win the comp. Just happy for us to stick around as we no doubt are a cash cow for the NRL. The club got a fuck you not a thank you for all the sacrifices the club made during covid to keep the comp going.

Fucking joke eh. Going to the pub for a scrap. Laters whanau. Blehhh

 

[WahsaurusRex]

I don’t know what to call that thing Leka did on his try and Demitric did at the end there, where they jumped to try catch the ball rather than let the Eels player catch it

But it seems like a great idea, I reckon we should probably do that more often

 

[CWC]

Old boys night and we lose