Post Match Warriors v Titans - [Round 21, 2025]

[Mr. Brownstone]

Realistic scenario is we don’t win a game from here & miss the 8. If we don’t change our right edge then how do we win another game? Why hasn’t the penny dropped for Webster that DWZ isn’t first grade standard - what he’s doing now he’s done his entire career, there is no fix for him. Capewell just as much to blame. If Webster picks that side again then the Dolphins put 50 on us.

 

[sballer7]

Do you think Healey can fit into the system straight away Sup

I think he is the system. Look how we went against the Sharks.

 

[sballer7]

Our NSW Cup are going really well does this loss mean wholesale changes and a chance for some the NSW Cup guys to get a chance at first grade?

Maybe we just swap the teams...they couldn't do much worse.

 

[Zarjaz]

Pretty much my last 24 hours summed up.

 

[roguei]

Completion rates, one out runs, get to the last, kick chase, repeat and rinse… it’s what I saw tonight. We don’t set the world on fire with second phase play.

Those things do not necessarily also mean less of the latter? But I'm still a bit confused on which players he's made worse once they've got into FG.
Some quick examples of players who seemed to have retained that 'spark' under Webster to go after attack (offlads, LBs, support play etc). who he has selected just this year and stuck in his 17.

1. Vaimauga never told to put away offloading. Source on why.
SJ: "I feel like you change the game with your late offloading. What's the licensing around it? What's been said? Has there been some hard words or has it been 'you knock the front door down, back the skill'?"
Vaimauga: "He's said to the group he's not gonna stop us from offloading. Like, it's got to be measured obviously... They've given me the green light."

2. Metcalf never told to kill his "non-traditional" attack style. Source on why.
Sterlo: "Webby mentioned pre-game that the attack might look very different this year. Is that just a way of keeping your running game? I imagine if you were that 7, it'd possibly go away?"
Metcalf: "I think it's grown into being a part of the role. And it's something I never want to lose."

3. Leka hasn't been told to ease back.

I just don't really get the idea that Webster is currently trying to make players play differently to how they did in NSW Cup or in other teams.
So, I'm unsure where this assumption that Webster is going to pigeon-hole Healey into as generic a hooker as possible is coming from, or the idea that he sets up players to fail or that he is hurting their development.

On the other hand, I do fully understand the outrage/criticism/exhaustion at his picks of players above some others (e.g., CNK > TT). But I don't think he's saying to TT, "You need to be more like CNK to be picked ahead of him," fucking up TT's development. It sounds more like he's saying: "We've picked CNK in the preseason, our gameplan involves a player like him, and we're going to stick to it. You need to keep being TT, you'll be second pick. Be ready to be the best TT when it's your time." Now, I think it's a totally fair debate: How many injuries/losses does it take before the coach has to change the original gameplan to let the more inexperienced (i'd somewhat argue better) players ahead of these older, broken players?

 

[CWC]

I think he will stick with the same team and if we get destroyed again at home he’ll ring the changes.

Though the fact he swapped CHT and TMM is a concession who can light up the attack when your 7 is a traditional robot. When all your FB does is taking 2 hit ups per set from the back and you can’t do jack when you arrive in the redzone….did I type this in 2024?

Btw was TT in the team when we had a run of losses towards the end of last season?