Pick Your Team Warriors v Manly - [Round 2, 2025]

[MrFrankWhite]

It was super weird seeing photos of the team walking through a sea of supporters (12,000?) Like this club has not won a comp for 30 years and came off a horrible season, and receives this kind of fanfare for…not achieving anything? Great for photo ops but I am not a 15 year old searching for 3 second thrills on tiktok, I am getting too old for 80 minute of suffering watching the current and future potentials getting wasted

Rant over

This is why we need to get rid of blokes like Stacey etc. Too much veneration for blokes who have never won anything.

After this blow up with Agar, I googled him. That journo isn’t wrong, guy has a rubbish coaching record.

 

[JustLikeStartingOver]

Because of the occasion you can start doing mind games with the selections:

The boys are going to be on edge, we need to keep it simple at the start, don’t take too much risk passing or offloading, Clark will provide more impact than Ford, so start Ford, he’ll do a solid job, then they just have an overly tentative mindset and aren't up for it.

Then once it’s clear they are chasing the game:

Our experienced players will be more capable of digging us out, not fair to ask the rookies to make up for their errors.

All the hype it’s a bit like the 2001 grand final where the coach loses sight of what works.

If they repeat that shit in the familiar surrounds of mt smart, massive flashing warning sirens going off.

Just park Lussick on the bench, you don’t need to use him, but he’ll cover for hooker injury and work hard in the final 10 minutes, that’s ok, leaves more minutes for the rest of the forwards. If the NRL stats are correct 13 minutes for Demetric is baffling.

 

[Five&Last]

What potential?

He never dominated in first grade, he never dominated in NSW Cup. People got excited because he occasionally put on a big hit and did some fluke kick that dribbled the right way in a jr test once.

He tries hard and I wish him well, but he's not even Thomas Lealuai level.

He's still levels above Boyd.

That's just the sorry state our squad is in this year.