Post Match Warriors v Roosters - [Round 3, 2025]

[Inruin]

Nah

He’s done his job

Nothing more. Nothing less

You’re praising him because he hasn’t stuffed up like he normally does. It’s a low bar

If everyone does their job we should be in a good place. He has done his job consistently well for three games IMO. If/when he stuffs up then he will get warranted criticism. Until then he is our best performer if the two in the halves so far

 

[Beastmode]

If everyone does their job we should be in a good place. He has done his job consistently well for three games IMO. If/when he stuffs up then he will get warranted criticism. Until then he is our best performer if the two in the halves so far

Saying he’s the best between him and Metcalf I agree. But it’s not saying much.

 

[Teets]

The first person who speaks you can follow.

The second person barely speaks english fluently and spews a nonsense of jargon that is reads out the back looks and other bullshit not worth bothering with.

Interesting, I could follow the other bloke fine, he's got a vicious Aussie twang though for sure.

And I appreciate technical jargon in sports talk personally, I reckon league coverage in general is terrible for dumbing the game down instead of educating us. Bring back Sterlo's NRL tactics show, too much NRL 360 style bs.

 

[Inruin]

Interesting, I could follow the other bloke fine, he's got a vicious Aussie twang though for sure.

And I appreciate technical jargon in sports talk personally, I reckon league coverage in general is terrible for dumbing the game down instead of educating us. Bring back Sterlo's NRL tactics show, too much NRL 360 style bs.

That Sterlo show was great. I like the Matty Johns podcast with Cooper Cronk when they start breaking down play.

 

[Teets]

That Sterlo show was great. I like the Matty Johns podcast with Cooper Cronk when they start breaking down play.

Yep that's easily the best Fox show I reckon.

 

[snake77]

Webster has said he won't change the halves for the first few rounds. I can't recall the exact time frame he used. Might have been 6 weeks.

We have two first grade halves in NSW Cup. They seem to be working well together.

Like the other positions it is good to have guys coming back via NSW Cup or pressing their claims from that grade. It is also hard to judge some players in that grade. Yesterdays was a bit of a write off with the result. It is better with the tighter games to see if the first grade players look a step up or are guys doing all of the little things like supporting runs or covering defensively.

We will likely have some games this year where we lose as our attack doesn't click. The main thing is we are competitive each week and our confidence doesn't drain as the season goes like last year.

On the contract status of the halves.

TMM it could be they have a few of the younger guys due to come in to the top 30 with the way their contracts are structured. I can't recall what I have seen in with Cleary and Hansen. It might be a tough decision for the club and unfortunate that he's the one coming off contract. Maybe they discuss a positional change.

Metcalf we have shown a lot of faith in him with his injuries and now giving him a shot at 7. Even if we did drop him for form it would still cost a lot for another club to poach him as they would need to pay him a decent contract.

To be honest I'm more worried week to week and turning around our poor 2024.

 

[Garry Saloon]

People giving CHT shit and he took on the Aus & NSW FB 1v1 and beat him to win us the game.

Frank and I in total agreement on the post match thread, disagree about everything over on the NZ politics thread

 

[Inruin]

Frank and I in total agreement on the post match thread, disagree about everything over on the NZ politics thread

You actually make some sense in these threads

 

[snake77]

That Sterlo show was great. I like the Matty Johns podcast with Cooper Cronk when they start breaking down play.

This is the best show for the technical aspects.

I used to like the coaching breakdowns they would have on the NRL website. Our old coach Matt Elliott was pretty good with that. A pity we don't get Super League here anymore. I am pretty sure they do some breakdowns of the games post match. They had a good session with Trent Robinson after one of the World Club Challenge games where he'd breakdown little things like their go forward.

I found some YouTube channels for union that breakdown the game better than our analysts who don't mention anything technical. I tried to find some league channels. I found one with a coach who would point out some good things but it needed more time on production.

 

[snake77]

Interesting, I could follow the other bloke fine, he's got a vicious Aussie twang though for sure.

And I appreciate technical jargon in sports talk personally, I reckon league coverage in general is terrible for dumbing the game down instead of educating us. Bring back Sterlo's NRL tactics show, too much NRL 360 style bs.

The broadcasters seem to go bring in nice tools to disect the game then end up ditching them.

Tools like when they would freeze it and isolate players who had caused the gap etc. Or highlight on screen where the kick is landing.

I'm pretty sure in the past there has been graphics showing where the try scoring set started and where each tackle for that set occurred. They used to bring up graphics on certain players on where they have run etc.

Some of these are a bit hard with the ball in play for long periods which is what they want.

Also needs commentators that pick up the patterns.

The coverage can be improved. Maybe some camera angle changes to show the formations or another smaller screen like in some replays showing certain things. Improve the stats. People go on about Moneyball the recruitment was what people notice it was actually based off stats.

 

[CWC]

Can’t believe the dogs and raiders game from last year were brought up against TMM - we ripped dogs 1 of the top defensive teams apart first half, lost all 3 outside backs for the 2nd half and still should have won with a last minute (non) penalty

In that game CHT threw a howler to the touch judge after a break which would have basically ended the game

Raiders game we should have won if CHT kicked 2 of the 3-4 kicks next to the posts

 

[CWC]

My 2.90 cents (post-inflation) on the halves - Metcalf will keep playing at 7 till we lose 3 games in a row or when he’s injured, whichever come first

If it’s the later and TMM plays like last year then he will keep the 7 when Metcalf returns at 6 and it could be a gun combo instead of the weird dynamic of SJ as de facto 6 last year.

In saying that Metcalf will surely improve through the season, maybe just let CHT or the other half do all the grubbers this year, that grubber with Leka and Ali on full steam still gives me blue balls Don’t think he even did any red zone kicks before that, which makes it feel worse, he should just run hard if we don’t have the numbers or shape fragmented like others said instead of brake and play touch like high school football

 

[Bay39er]

Can’t believe we are in the post game thread and it is being derailed by stay at home selectors

 

[Beastmode]

Can’t believe we are in the post game thread and it is being derailed by stay at home selectors

You can praise CNK and Leka only so many times before it starts getting boring…

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Interesting stat:

Our total run meters were 2030m for the Roosters game. This is the 2nd most meters run in a game of all 21 games so far this season. As a comparison, the unbeaten storm only ran for 1394m beating the Panthers.

We’re playing fast and making big meters! That’s why the opposition is fading at the end.

Of note, with us doing huge meters, you would expect lots of points with all the teams running 1900+m usually scoring 30+ points.

 

[Defence]

I'm sticking to my guns. We're winning the comp this year. Until we lose again after which I'll call for the coach to be sacked.

 

[run_it_str8_again]

I prefer a discussion using facts not hypotheticals

You may need to find someone else to satisfy your unmet need to argue.

 

[Defence]

He got to run the game ball out in full kit too, I have a family member with Down Sindrome so seeing something like that hits a little different.

Me too

 

[Makasene]

ford boring on the attack in comparison

It's not his role to attack.

His role coming off the bench in the middle is might effective. Why Webby went away from that in round 1 is a mystery but it won't happen again.

I actually think Walker is the weak link in this team, haven't been that impressed with his play this year.

I'd be happy carrying Healey over Walker.

 

[Muddogz]

Late to the party, but great performance effort wise and seem better conditioned this season. A few players had their best games of the season and they are building confidence and an identity of how they want to play.

It was a very physical game and I’m not to sure any team is going be relishing a trip to Mt Smart at this point. Attack is patchy though due to lacking X factor. Tigers are defending well at present so it will be a good test next week.