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

[The Warrior Waka]

And this ain’t sour grapes either. I’d have Tapine in our team all day - need confident fellas like that haha

Tapine has a shoulder charge pass as well

 

[Wigan Warrior]

Showed we can compete with the top sides. Need to offer more in attack.

Maybe TMM at 6 as opposed to CHT. Seems a bit too conservative for me to play alongside Metcalf. Both similar styles. Need a bit of a maverick/ball running type to compliment him.

 

[Dannevegas]

Leka killed us with his errors at game turning moments.

Not saying we lost coz of him because I do not believe in that crap, just saying his errors and penalties conceded happened at the worst possible time.

Good loss, I feel fine about it, only lost by a Try and a kick, we were hard to beat by an attacking juggernaut.

We belong in the top four or six teams in this comp off that evidence.

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

 

[The Warrior Waka]

That was at my row.

Jump the fence for us and give him a head butt nek time brother! Lol

 

[Christchurch_Warrior]

I thought we did alright without our starting props. Was such a niggly game and if we had either Barnett of JFH we would have won that. I know plenty give Ford shit but 200m and 43 tackles is impressive.

 

[Tonbridge(aka Swanley)]

Not surprised.

No Fish or Barney, Ali was poor, Halisima was quiet, Clark I thought was trying a bit too much tonight.

We did some dumb things tonight, and it showed.

Still top 4 by a clear margin.

 

[Rizzah]

Really missed a bit of steel in the middle to counter Tapine when he was throwing the shoulders around.
Attack is still garbage.

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

Jump the fence for us and give him a head butt nek time brother! Lol

Won't lie.

I couldn't take him.

 

[Assyrian-Warrior]

Ah well can’t win em all.
UP THE WAHS!!!

 

[Wellington Warrior]

Back to negative points diff!

Our attack sucked ass. Plenty of chances and created SFA!

Raiders got away with murder!

Our outside backs were poor! Tomale and Kris must have had ants on them!

 

[CWC]

Yup Leka 3 drop balls including at the death, the other two when we should be pinning them back into their own half.

Always tough to score under pressure in the red zone at this stage of season given our attacking stats this year lol

 

[sydneywarrior92]

Hope we don't go overboard with criticism here. Without Barney and JFH, that was a very decent effort tonight. I think many of us predicted we'd get steamrolled up front like in Vegas. But if you look at the stats, it was a very even game in terms of meters. We certainly held our own in the middle. In my biased opinion, If either JFH or Barney were out there, I think we are more calm and collected in the critical moments and we close out another win. We certainly had the opportunities to win this towards the end and I thought we finished the stronger side. The winning streak had to come to an end eventually. I'm glad it came in the form of a proud and gritty loss rather than a 40 pt shellacking. That's a performance that a top 4 side dishes out.

Raiders haven't seen the last of us. We'll be meeting them in the finals no doubt.

 

[Pop Dukez]

Really missed our leadership props out there, I can’t help but think that would’ve made all the difference…..gutted, can’t stand Canberra, they rubbed our noses in it but fair game

MOM Capewell, he played his ass off out there

 

[John Nick]

Back to negative points diff!

Our attack sucked ass. Plenty of chances and created SFA!

Raiders got away with murder!

Our outside backs were poor! Tomale and Kris must have had ants on them!

We had a few chances but lacking patience

 

[Ever Hopeful]

2nd half points and discipline are starting to become a trend. I thought we were going to be caned in the middle after 20 minutes, but we muscled up well given our outs.

We have punched above our weight given the sum of our parts, and it is showing in some of our execution, but they are still playing tough and look to be a good enough team for top 6.

Not the end of the world this one. Canberra have that Ricky mongrel, ugly to watch, but effective.

 

[Buzz Killington]

Back to -1 points diff!

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

Hope we don't go overboard with criticism here.

You're in the wrong place, my friend.

 

[~Navigator~]

@Lance155
Sorry dude I hope you took the pay out.
We played dumb footy, it was like watching the jnr games.

 

[Makasene]

Probably the worst team to play missing JFH & Barnett.

Hopefully a big lesson for Leka.

RTS thought was strong. DWZ could leave today and I think we have him covered.

Ali must start going looking for work. His lack of involvement is frankly unacceptable at this level.

 

[The Warrior Waka]

Our halves have no idea on attack. Metcalf is a greedy player. Trying the hero plays with nothing on. Channel, Is a defensive half. Nothing else.
Leka needs to come off the bench. He's an impact player.