Post Match Warriors v Raiders - [Round 12, 2025]

[CWC]

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Get rid of him. Should have made 300 metres.

Goodness Ripper almost getting 100m post contact metres against a giant pack

ONE Dally M point

 

[CWC]

https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/canberras-tom-starling-given-oneweek-ban-captain-joe-tapine-fined/news-story/58f651e4b16c77c9deee996440bd9fef

All that for a fine? Only the little punk got one match

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

Goodness Ripper almost getting 100m post contact metres against a giant pack

ONE Dally M point

Still in the lead....

 

[Wah's Up]

We lost because our attack is ass, and we lack killer instincts and a lack of young athletic backs.

Maybe! did you watch how Canberra ran all their plays at Luke and CHT? We hardly had the ball and when we did get it the halves were gassed fro the tackles they made. Smart play by Sticky. Alsoall the former who were screaming out to play the young guys, where are you now. First game where they really came under pressure and exhaustion they fell apart.
Webby is doing the right thing by blooding them slowly, we need the experienced heads in there for those tough games.

 

[CWC]

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Still in the lead....

I suppose he had another try saving tackle and 3/3 including a sideline conversion, but 0 points for Ford, yikes, this is purely an NRL promo propaganda

 

[Canonball]

Starling is the only player getting a suspension.

Tapine, Hors and Laban fined.

That was the losing of the game - despite what our guys said after the match, the spoiling tactics (raiders always had someone rolling around in the ruck, our dummy half was always throwing around or stepping over someone) and the grubbiness was deliberate, it upset our guys - with Barney and Fish there that doesn't happen - I think it fucking sucks and the NRL should be harder on that shit, how Tapine didn't get binned is beyond me - Raiders are gross, they need to be shortened up at some point... who's the team to do it?

 

[Neo]

DWZ - 79m
Bunty - 68m
Ali - 63m

Laban 37m
Demetric 23m

Desperately missed Barneys 150m+

Really noticed DWZ’s lack of go forward last night, and since he has been back. Roger on the other hand was making metres easily.
Demetric seemed to be on the field when we had no ball as his metres came from 2 runs. A lot of Bunty’s metres also came off the kick return so he was pretty well nullified.

 

[run_it_str8_again]

While I agree a bit with Webby about it being the refs job to sort out overstepping the mark.......ummmm

Our players have been neutered by such an approach. We are not ruthless. We were toofless. Sigh

*Don't go to city kickboxing and come out and get belted up.

 

[Cces]

CHT better pick himself up and not start fading like last year, need to fix his compulsory 1 per game knock ons.

CHT is credited with 5 handling errors across the last 2 games. Metcalf has had 5 consecutive games with 1 or more handling errors so both need to reduce these lapses

 

[run_it_str8_again]

Maybe! did you watch how Canberra ran all their plays at Luke and CHT? We hardly had the ball and when we did get it the halves were gassed fro the tackles they made. Smart play by Sticky. Alsoall the former who were screaming out to play the young guys, where are you now. First game where they really came under pressure and exhaustion they fell apart.
Webby is doing the right thing by blooding them slowly, we need the experienced heads in there for those tough games.

No mate. Those young guys needed to be in that. Yes they failed. But now they know how it feels. Honestly if Leka and Demetric and Marata were honest and instinctual, Tapine would have been picking his teeth up off the Mt Smart grass. I know Leka and Demetric had to curb their aggression but Canberra just unleashed theirs and won using it. I'm impressed.

Character building

 

[The Warrior Waka]

The Raiders are physically huge, outmuscled us and we were just hanging in the second half instead of rolling over the top.

They aren't physically bigger than us. They were just more physical.

Tapine 189 106
Nuikore 188 106

Afoa 188 113
Horsburg 188 109

Sasagi 185 94
Capewah 189 100

Hosking 189 97
Halasima 180 106

Smithies 185 106
Clark 180 98

Papalii 188 119
Vaimauga 183 104

Martin 185 96
Ford 187 97

Mariota 184 107
Laban 189 110

 

[kos]

Do you reckon that's a deliberate tactic? I was hoping it was just shit execution by LM, because if that IS a tactic...why the fook would anyone want that?

You're spot on, look at how many we dropped because we had someone in our face. Yes, you might cause a penalty or two (like they did) but they also got plenty of reward with several dropped balls

Yeah it’s a Webster tactic
Kick long
Five to ten metres too long
Sj did it all last year
Our chasers are miles from the opposition recieved/catcher

 

[Damo]

Do you reckon that's a deliberate tactic? I was hoping it was just shit execution by LM, because if that IS a tactic...why the fook would anyone want that?

You're spot on, look at how many we dropped because we had someone in our face. Yes, you might cause a penalty or two (like they did) but they also got plenty of reward with several dropped balls

It's been a tactic since RD1 2023, I'm not sure why anyone is surprised now and it is only ever questioned when we lose.

 

[Tragic]

Part of the problem with the long kicks is that Metcalf hasn't got a high long kick that holds in the air, so you need a super berry type chaser to put any pressure on.
That and some variation are work ons for Metcalf.

 

[defensivebomb]

Canberra’s kicking on the 5th in the first half, into the wind, was absolute perfection

 

[Stalefish540]

On Metcalf.

He's going fine. If he's to be a player of greatness he's got to have his times like when Billy Slater passed infield to a waiting Benji Marshall during a Kiwis v Kangaroos test. It's what you do about it that will make him or break him.

I still got tickets on the Metcalf Metro

100%

Winning while the team, Luke included are learning. Much better than the alternative I tell ya.

I'm willing to look past my nose(2025), to see what we can turn into.

Window feels like 2026-2027, building towards that is in progress.

 

[Boats n Hoes]

Maybe! did you watch how Canberra ran all their plays at Luke and CHT? We hardly had the ball and when we did get it the halves were gassed fro the tackles they made. Smart play by Sticky.

Canberra halves made more tackles......didnt seem to hurt them..... Fogertys kicking game was on point....as usual.

Organizing line attack hasnt been a strong point for our halves all season really.

 

[kos]

Canberra halves made more tackles......didnt seem to hurt them..... Fogertys kicking game was on point....as usual.

Organizing line attack hasnt been a strong point for our halves all season really.

Jamal Fogarty is ex Titans
Titans lose their good players
Fogarty
Sexton
Clark
Pahulu

Not all of course
But the ones that leave turn into very goods

 

[Kav1]

'We can't discipline aggression': Ricky says don't punish Origin-esque passion

The Raiders climb to second on the NRL ladder after Warriors win.

www.canberratimes.com.au

Would be an interesting read, but behind a paywall. Ricky Stuart saying you can’t punish aggression, what about shoulder charges, and foul mouthed exchanges with the crowd?

He regarded that as part of the entertainment package and likened it to State of Origin.

 

[Kav1]

Good to hear Webby in the press conference speak about our attack.
Sounds like he knows what to address.


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e2ZUSJAQpz4&t=188s

I would personally like to see more decoy runs from our forwards to put them in two minds.