Post Match Warriors v Panthers - [Round 11, 2024]

Warriors vs Panthers
Warriors

Warriors

22 - 20
● LIVE
80:00

Suncorp Stadium

19 May 2024

Panthers

Panthers

Match Statistics

Warriors Panthers
4 Tries 4
3 / 4 Conversions 2 / 5
0/0 Field Goals 0/0
0/0 2P Field Goals 0/0
4 Try Assists 3
Warriors Panthers
53% Possession 47%
34/6 Complete/Incomplete Sets 29/6
56 Time in Opp Half 44
1333m Metres Gained 1244m
7 Line Breaks 6
8 Offloads 7
18/587m Kicks/Metres 18/456m
Warriors Panthers
7 Errors 10
7 Penalties Conceded 6
2 Set Restarts 1
22 Missed Tackles 32

Player Statistics

Warriors Players
# Player T Pts TA LB TB Off Tkl MT IT Pos DH K KM M E P
1 T. Tuaupiki 1 10 0 2 3 1 2 1 0 27 0 0 0m 158m 1 2
2 D. Watene-Zelezniak 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 1 0 19 0 0 0m 97m 0 0
3 A. Leiataua 1 4 0 1 3 1 9 4 0 14 0 1 11m 89m 0 0
4 A. Pompey 1 4 0 1 5 0 7 3 0 20 1 0 0m 132m 0 0
5 M. Montoya 1 4 0 2 4 0 2 1 0 18 0 0 0m 129m 0 0
6 C. Nicoll-Klokstad 0 0 1 1 3 1 16 2 0 19 1 0 0m 122m 2 1
7 T. Martin 0 0 3 0 1 0 17 1 0 53 1 17 576m 13m 0 0
8 A. Fonua-Blake 0 0 0 0 3 0 22 1 0 8 0 0 0m 57m 2 0
9 W. Egan 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 1 0 0m 9m 0 0
10 B. Afoa 0 0 0 0 1 0 30 0 0 3 0 0 0m 22m 0 1
11 J. Ford 0 0 0 0 0 0 33 2 0 7 0 0 0m 43m 0 1
12 M. Barnett 0 0 0 0 0 2 33 1 0 20 0 0 0m 110m 0 0
14 D. Walker 0 0 0 0 1 1 26 2 0 18 2 0 0m 108m 0 0
15 T. Ale 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 1 0 5 0 0 0m 31m 0 1
16 J. Tevaga 0 0 0 0 3 0 19 0 0 21 0 0 0m 156m 1 0
17 J. Laban 0 0 0 0 1 1 30 0 0 7 1 0 0m 37m 0 0
21 P. Roache 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 2 0 4 1 0 0m 20m 1 1
18 Z. Maiu'u 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0m 0m 0 0
Panthers Players
# Player T Pts TA LB TB Off Tkl MT IT Pos DH K KM M E P
1 D. Edwards 1 8 1 1 4 3 4 1 0 37 0 0 0m 129m 0 0
2 S. Turuva 0 0 0 1 3 0 5 3 0 17 0 0 0m 108m 1 0
3 I. Tago 1 4 0 1 2 1 24 3 0 16 1 0 0m 83m 1 0
18 P. Alamoti 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 12 0 0 14m 46m 2 0
5 B. To'o 0 0 0 1 3 2 3 0 0 22 1 0 0m 203m 2 0
6 J. Cole 0 0 0 0 0 0 39 4 0 15 0 4 98m 28m 0 2
7 J. Luai 1 4 1 1 3 1 3 1 0 48 0 14 344m 103m 0 0
15 L. Smith 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 1 0 6 0 0 0m 36m 1 0
9 M. Kenny 0 0 1 0 0 0 41 5 0 1 0 0 0m 0m 0 0
10 J. Fisher-Harris 0 0 0 0 1 0 19 1 0 14 0 0 0m 110m 0 2
11 L. Garner 0 0 0 0 2 0 35 2 0 9 0 0 0m 57m 1 0
12 L. Martin 0 0 0 0 0 0 47 3 0 6 0 0 0m 43m 0 0
13 I. Yeo 1 4 0 1 2 0 32 0 0 17 0 0 0m 130m 1 1
8 M. Leota 0 0 0 0 1 0 16 4 0 7 0 0 0m 44m 0 0
16 M. Eisenhuth 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 1 0 8 0 0 0m 74m 0 1
20 T. Peachey 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0m 10m 0 0
22 S. Sorensen 0 0 0 0 1 0 21 2 0 4 0 0 0m 40m 1 0
17 M. Geyer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0m 0m 0 0
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Tuaupiki is our FB of the future.

Fantastic win with our backs against the wall. These young guys play the way we should be playing.

Gusty win, our best in a long time. I had a good feeling when I saw our team list. We needed to try something different.

Awesome win, we needed that. Chuffed.
 
Taine was incredible. So composed & clutch when it mattered.
Montoya and Dallin error free, plenty of tough work out of our half.
Ali showed he’s an nrl centre, very dynamic & good defensively.
Pompey is a better centre than RTS, for now. He’s very experienced & makes great defensive reads.
Charnze was all effort & had some class about him at 6.
Best game I’ve seen of TMM, great kicking, laid of 3 tries.
Barnett plays origin.
And jazz is back baby!

We were a completely different team without Shaun. We’re better with him, but we need to unlock that left edge & without SJ we are far less predictable & go down both edges. Will welcome SJ back with open arms but we’ve just shown we can attack both edges, TMM needs more ball & offers a heck of a lot when given the opportunity. SJ needs to be the dominant half, but not 90/10, and give some of the attack to TMM.

Huge win for the morale of club & fans ❤️
 
Jazz does so much 1% stuff for us. He was awesome.
TMM started poor but surely with more game time and confidence is a good first grade halfback.
You have to keep Pompey. He keeps the defensive line well.
Also the threat of Ali causes problems for defensive lines, he is more of a threat than Rocco, I’d be tempted to have Ali and Pompey as my centres. So hard now for the coaches.

BUT THIS WAS ALOT OF GRIT!!! Very proud.
 
Barnett I love having him in our team. He leaves it out there.

Walker was good in the middle. Meant we had a bit more of an attacking threat and could create things. Got us a key penalty to get us down field. He has experience and knows how to use it.

CNK is another one who is all effort. Did some good ball work at 6 but also just took the ball under his arm and ran.
 
FormerlyJamesW said:
Some one posted the average age of our team and it was quite old in comparison to the other teams. You joke but this is the first game in a month where we didn’t look like a sack of wet potatoes.
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Yeah
A point I would make too
Our oldest players Rts Sj Tohu were out
Lowered our age profile
And introduced speed and unpredictability
Another thing I liked was Tmm kicking to different places on the field not our usual Sj kick to the opposition right winger
I think Ali picked up a little leg injury at the start but achieved anyway
Bunty in his last stint was defending strongly really putting effort and closing tackles
The only player a bit quiet was AFB injury maybe
Roach was great
Tmm stood up
CNK was all bustle and effort
Pompey is a professional league player not someone who marched off to Ru and came back on prior reputation
Monty and Dall were great
Taine another bundle of energy and did the fullback stuff great
Ford Barnett (very good) Ale Laban tick tick
De age the side add some unpredictability and speed and we beat the premiers
One of our top 20 wins since 95
 
Hearty defence won us that game. (altho all those Penrith errors helped too)

No coincidence a 91% tackle efficiency our highest since the Manly game and we win. Across the board i think our pack stood up in that regard led by Barnett and Jazz.

Also our lowest error rate in 6 games.

May not be sexy enough for some but defend hard and make fewer mistakes normally puts you in the picture.
 
Not gonna lie fams..and I have no shame in saying this but I did have a cry seeing us win today. Not an ugly cry like when my first and only child was born 😂 but a proud cry because I always back our team…even when we’re stacked against it. Not delusional, just love our team and will always back us. Honestly, I believe our team has more supporters than any other NRL team. Everyone loves an underdog and the warriors cheers for our away games last year and this year is second to none
 
Magic effort against all odds and certinaly not something i was expecting!!

Taine was simply epic,
TMM after some early shithouse last play options came right and was immense!
Dylan Walker dare i say did what Harris used to do….
Heck even Montoya the usual whipping boy did good!!
Roache was awesome - hope we stick with him over Lussick next week
Barney was his usual rock best!
Poor Ali played busted right from his first hit up, but showed guts to stay out there. Hope its nothing serious as think he offers way more than Rocco.

A+++ effort for sure.

Also - thanks to Dylan Edward’s who couldn’t hit the side of a barn door with his kicking! The panthers definitely had an off game, but I’m putting that down to the pressure we put on.. right?
 
What I loved most about this win for our team fam is this…commentators talking us down as irrelevant and more concerted about the few outs that the Penrith Panties had and not acknowledging the 10 we had out and the players we lost during this game. We have not had our full strength side named this season (excluding preseason). What a massive scalp this team achieved against all odds.
 
Have to admit I was very close to not bothering to watch this game. Panthers recent dominance coupled with our massive outs certainly pointed to nothing less than a dominant Panthers win.
Started off having it kinda on in the background- we concede early and players start dropping like flies, not looking good at all.
Thought I’d see how the team responded, I don’t mind if we lose as we give it a crack- and that’s what we were doing. As time went on I was waiting for the inevitable late fade and Panthers coming home strong- only it never happened, I saw more heart,composure and desperation than I’ve seen in weeks.
Fantastic effort from the lads and will go down as one of our heartiest wins in our history, very proud of the team and that’s all I want
 
WHAT. A. F*******. WIN!!!!!!

Say what you want about Penrith missing Cleary etc etc but to turn up in the form we're in, with the side we had to put out and then deal with everything thrown at us in the first 40 with the HIAs to come out with a win is superb.

Every single player was fantastic today. No questions of their passion for the jersey after that.

Up the wahs! Lets gone Warriors! FUCKING GET IN!!!!
 
Never doubted them for one second…. Just don’t look at my tips…

The youngsters stepped up a gear today. Was good to have some new energy and attack. I thought we got our fair share of 50/50 calls too, for once. The refs did a pretty fair job of it

I reckon one of the things that has plagued us recently is some of our players aren’t recovering well enough between games, and are playing a bit busted. Hopefully these injuries actually mean they come back energised. Would love a mix of experience and youthful dynamism
 
Rick O’Shay said:
Bottom line, no disrespect but Shaun has an ego that says he needs to be in charge. Tonight we saw what can happen when the ego goes in the dustbin. Not sure of Webby's game plan but 2nd phase and off loading all of a sudden became De Rigour. And it worked, so Kudos to the Web.
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I'll counter by saying SJ has a skillset that needs options.

Good options last year, much more threatening.

This year, his options are not threatening.

I didn't see today's style as sustainable. It was a gutsy performance but to rely on that week in week out is fools gold.

Capewell has been a failure unfortunately. Need to get Marata back at 12 outside SJ and things will look a lot better.

Not sure about the left though...
 
defensivebomb said:
just watched Ivan's press conference. His body language a big giveaway to how pissed off he is with Yeo, basically costing them the game
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The pile on about Ivan's presser is weak sauce.

Seeing a lot of Warriors fans (particularly on FB) calling it out saying he disrespected us etc.

Man, that was a target 2 points for them - they fucked it.

Alot of people calling him out like he didn't just gift us JFH and his own son while asking nothing in return!

Let the man be pissed.
 
Cces said:
It's hard to gauge how much credit to give Webster as I'm not sure if there was a distinct change of tactics, more likely he just tried to instill confidence in them & the instructions was for TMM to play what was in front of him.
As for Ivan, I think he got a bit cute putting Leota on the bench & carrying Peachey in the 17 when he had Soni Luke available. Kenny can't play 80 minutes week after week or he'll burn out & miss 7 tackles like he did yesterday. Luke can kick too, as shown by playing #7 in NSW Cup, so all the load wouldn't have all fallen on Luai either
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We have to give him a lot of credit for the performance. Regardless of who wasn't playing, Webster obviously created an environment throughout the week to instill confidence and more importantly a desire to stay in the fight and defend. This forum has knocked Webster for the performances in the last few weeks. He deserves credit - head coaching is a tough gig.
 

Webster hails leaders after Warriors' Magic Round boilover​

Corey Rosser
Their halfback played most of the game with a suspected broken finger, a hooker with less than 20 minutes of NRL experience had to get through over an hour on the field and the fullback risked missing the birth of his first child in order to take his place in the side.

For those reasons and plenty more, the Warriors’ 22-20 victory over the Panthers on Sunday, which ended a six-game winless run that threatened to derail their season ahead of Magic Round, will be remembered as one of the gutsiest efforts in club history.
While few could have predicted the result given the Warriors’ recent run of form and the absence of nine frontline players, coach Andrew Webster said the signs were there during the week that his side was primed to turned things around at Suncorp Stadium.
“There was a lot of belief in what we wanted to do this week. What happened during the week and the way the boys were and [how they] focused… so many leaders stood up this week and wanted to own what we wanted to do,” Webster said.
From the field: Martin

From the field: Martin

From the field: Martin
“We saw the reflection of it [Sunday].
“We haven’t crossed out anything we have done in our pre-season, we haven’t said we need to change the world, we re-focused on what was most important for us this week and our leaders did that for us.
“It wasn’t coming from the staff; it was coming from the players and I am so proud about that.
We beat a really good side and I was happy the way we went about it. Just so tough and resilient and they just cared so much about making sure we did what we wanted to do.
Andrew Webster
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With hooker Wayde Egan ruled out after 12 minutes due to a head knock, Paul Roache was required to play the remainder of the game at hooker in his third appearance at NRL level and came up with 37 tackles.
Both Jackson Ford and Marcelo Montoya also spent time off the field for head injury assessments, while halfback Te Maire Martin was going through issues of his own that nobody knew about.
The 28-year-old suffered a suspected broken finger in the opening exchanges but shook it off to lay on two crucial try assists in the second half for Ali Leiataua and Adam Pompey.

Late heroics followed from backup fullback Taine Tuaupiki – who was called into the squad to take the spot of Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad who had to move into the halves to replace the injured Shaun Johnson – with his try and conversion 10 minutes from time giving the Warriors the winning edge.
But the second-year flyer revealed post-match that he easily could have missed the flight to Brisbane altogether, with his partner Kitana due to give birth to the couple's first child any day.
Taine Tuaupiki Try

Taine Tuaupiki Try

"I got a little spray from Webby because although I told him a couple of weeks ago [about the due date], I didn't remind him," Tuaupiki said post-match.
"She's a trooper, she's been so strong and she could have easily just said 'no, you're not going'.
"It was pretty surreal... I knew we needed the two points [before I kicked the last conversion], but I just knew that if I stared at the clock I probably would have hyped myself a bit too much.
"It was exciting to have a cool little moment like that."

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Webster hails leaders after Warriors' Magic Round boilover

Warriors coach Andrew Webster paid tribute to his leaders following an against-the-odds victory over the Panthers on Sunday.
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It was nice to see a smile on Webby's face in the post match. I may be wrong but I get the impression that he gives the team plenty of agency (accountability) when it comes to what they want to do, and club identity.

Ultimately it's the players on the field that execute, but I think credit goes to Webby and the way he has approached his role. I can see a real cuture developing here and I think he has been the catalyst. I also remind myself that he is, in effect, a rookie coach still learning his craft. He will get better, and I think he has the nous and temperment to do just that.
I'm rather intrigued to see the direction he goes from here.
 
MrFrankWhite said:
Disagree entirely. At the start of the season Egan & SJ were running around just fine.

Walker was great yesterday. Issue is TMM a shit 6, and Tohu is done.
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1. At the start of the season (rds 1-2) Metcalf was the half and sj was playing more sided than he is now. Then Walker and Metcalf got injured. So rounds 1-2 are not very relevant to my point.
2. Walker was good yesterday, and so was TMM. Which is consistent with my point.
3. I agree Tohu has been off form, but I think he’s been playing while injured to try and help us through an injury (whether he’s actually helped is debatable). I think he may have good footy left in him.
 
Commonsense said:
You do realize the coaches do a lot more than just pick the team, the problem with a lot of you on here is you have very limited knowledge and have never played the game so you have such simplistic and uneducated opinions.

It doesn't show that the injured players are the problem at all but someone with your limited abilities would probably think that.
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Have some commonsense bro. We all know we're a bunch of keyboard warriors. The whole point of forums like this is to spout nonsense and find other like minded kents like my homie @MrFrankWhite

Not for people like you to put others down.
 
Commonsense said:
the problem with a lot of you on here is you have very limited knowledge and have never played the game so you have such simplistic and uneducated opinions.
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Please supply a complex and educated breakdown of why we weren't winning and why we did win this week.

You are quick to tear posters down. I'm yet to see a single post from you that adds to the forum in a positive way.

If we are such a dumb group of posters, educate us.
 
Makasene said:
Because they have no interest in adding to the forum, only in tearing others down.
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He's not the only one I have seen on here either.

There are some really good posters on here that you can have a great discussion with regardless of whether you have a different opinion or not.

Regardless of your previous or current involvement in the game or even lack of it, why does that make an opinion or view or thought any more or less valid? And if it is something you don't agree with or think isn't right, surely discussing it and providing a worthwhile counter point or ignoring it is far better than name calling or posting shit that neither adds to the topic or adds to the forum.

'You haven't got a clue' or 'I bet you've never played the game' or 'insert non clever name calling here' is really a pathetic response to posters who are on a public forum sharing their views, thoughts and opinions. Let alone assuming those posters aren't involved in some way. Add to that, there are plenty involved in the game who have no clue also.

@Wrighty who is new to league, no flames, has some very astute observations. Some quite weird ones too though!

@MrFrankWhite I find fairly logical and I can 99% of the time follow his thinking of why he has a certain opinion on a player or issue.

Neither of these posters I agree with on everything but I certainly appreciate their posts and contributions. They also have life experiences that they can translate across to this great game and club we follow.

Sorry for the rant, but I think some posters need to pull their heads in and either contribute better, ignore posters that don't add anything or aren't worth responding to and/or accept that other people are doing the same.
 
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I am merely just stating/expressing my opinion /POV of how I see and understand the game. Im not a league player and have never played a game in my life but have been watching for quite a long time. I don't claim I'm right in what I say. We are all entitled to our own views for which I will not get offended. At the end of the day we all just want our team to do well.
 
Inruin said:
The sin bin was quite crucial in the end. Gave us the opportunity to take the lead with two well taken tries that gave us a boost of confidence and belief just when we needed it. Putting that to the side, I do wonder what the difference was in this performance.
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I take your point about our centres being more north to south but tbh i dont think there was anything too fundamentally different to what we've been doing (or trying to do). Yes we offloaded a bit more than usual but nothing to the point of "the shackles are off its Warrior ball time", Our 4 tries all came off the back of structure......using pretty much the same shift plays we've seen before - options of hitting a lead runner or sweeper out the back. But yes we definitely made the most of that sin binning,

But generally we were playing the same (increasingly unpopular for many it seems) "process" game that has always been Webbys plan. Yardage then a kick, pressure through your defence, win the territory battle, play the odds with the more times you get in that red zone the more chance you give yourself of scoring.

So if the tactics didnt change what was different that made our tactics more effective this week than it has been for ages? For mine (and as ive stated in other threads) we had our highest completion rate in 5 weeks and our lowest error rate.......this meant we were able to sustain pressure with ball in hand. Combine this with our best defensive effort (the first time we hit a 90% tackle efficiency rate in 5 weeks) and also an opposition who quite frankly we're doing what we've usually done gifting us possession and territory through an uncharacteristically high error rate and lack of discipline.....all adds up.

Now i guess the question is how much did the change of personnel influence this? And this is where i think people need to be careful before wanting ingrained wholesale changes based on this performance and where the Makasene "unsustainable" post from another thread is particulary relevant. Im more of a just wait and see how things play out before id commit to one particular course of action.

I think if anything this game showed that Webbys "process" is the process to follow (yes with a few tweaks and variations needed).....and that this process (or any tbh) heavily relies on having good defence and low errors, and that those are the controllables we need to hit each week to give ourselves the best chance of winning.
 
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I was fortunate enough to be over in Brisbane for Magic Round with a few fellow Warriors fans.

I'm not exaggerating when I say probably 80% of fans in other teams jerseys gave an UP THE WAHS as we walked past, and there was nothing but positive vibes from them and wishing us well for the season. We have really made ourselves everyone's second team.

We were also fortunate enough to have SJ himself spot us on Sunday morning, and he gave us an extremely hearty UP THE WAHS BOYS as he drove past. Absolutely awesome.
 
Zaggo said:
I was fortunate enough to be over in Brisbane for Magic Round with a few fellow Warriors fans.

I'm not exaggerating when I say probably 80% of fans in other teams jerseys gave an UP THE WAHS as we walked past, and there was nothing but positive vibes from them and wishing us well for the season. We have really made ourselves everyone's second team.

We were also fortunate enough to have SJ himself spot us on Sunday morning, and he gave us an extremely hearty UP THE WAHS BOYS as he drove past. Absolutely awesome.
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Cameron Smith said on a radio show that the ending to our game had the loudest noise, like a playoff match. It was wild lol
 
run_it_str8_again said:
All arguments aside. How good was that outcome.

Wowsers!!! Ive re watched that game so many times and it was such a welcome sight seeing a team approach get the result. Against such horrible odds too. Well done team.
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I was thinking about this last night. It's hard to comprehend how we replace AFB but then he appeared to have a reduced role or certainly reduced minutes and yet we covered for them. Quite often you find one or two players dominating isn't as effective as several players covering it.

Examples: AFB at prop, CNK at fullback, SJ at 7. Three dominant players heavily involved. Yet on the weekend, and I know it's a sample size of one game, but their roles were changed, reduced or in SJ's case replaced. Don't take this as trying to diminish their contributions or that we are better without them, all I'm trying to say is that we looked better with everyone contributing and getting their crack at it
 
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