TeamList Warriors vs Manly - [Round 6, 2024]

[Ref]

Woods in for Nathan Brown is a bonus for us.

 

[sydneywarrior92]

woke up to the brilliant news that crazy eyes is out and sharon woods is in for Manly.

 

[Worried2Death]

Great seeing our club working with other sports balls.

The mighty 2002 side were the same, they used basketball as a training aid. Cue Rabs Warren Screaming "They're playing basketball".

Rugby ball handling is a specialized field, thanks to geometry and physics - which counter intuitively can be restrictive in terms of brain development and hand eye coordination.

Training with different types of balls is called differential training.

Imagine league is a martial art or fighting sport. Training on game balls only...is like training on a punching bag of one type....no speed ball....no medicine ball.....no rope jumping for footwork, no pads.

Differential training makes an athlete understand how their body moves in different conditions, while learning to tame them and therefore still achieve the same outcome.

Different tools in other words, tune the human machine to work in different environments (Big Basket ball, hard wooden surface, the body learns new ways to master motion and reaction).

Breaking it down a little more, basketballers have great hands at catching Rugby balls, because the open hand position they adopt for a large round ball, is the best position for catching a rugby ball, and the constant passing in basketball, promotes passing balls and making trick passes in the Rugby codes.

Taking a broader view, soccer players who become Rugby code players almost always end up in the five percentile of best kickers in the Rugby codes...because using their feet on balls is Bushido...a way of life...a way of the Samurai.

A top footballer can strike a ball better than any Rugby code kicker, because they have spent the ten thousand hours on feet kicks ball that the Rugby kickers are thousands upon thousands of hours behind.

Which is why I have been for thirty years, the voice in NZ rugby league forums, that says any parent of any halfback/standoff, who wants their kid to be the next thing in this sport in NZ....should put their kid through kicking drills from the first day they decide to play Rugby league, and to push their kid like a Ballet mom to kick balls because if they listen to me...they are adding a three quarters of a million dollars and a NRL scouts bullseye on top of their kids other skills.

I keep posting this because I know somewhere in forum land a Mum and Dad of some kid in the halves in our sport in some far off comp is gonna read it (hey Mum and dad of said kid, I raised an Olympic swimming kid who beat the current best Olympic contenders in the NZ team but my girl asked me if I would have a problem if she quit, to which I said, nah bub fuck sport if you want out Dad wants you out, but before that convo my girl carved up every Olympic hopeful in this generation).

I understand training of elite kids, I used to wake my own daughter at quarter to five in the morning six days a week before training and school to protein and carbo load with meal packages from the fridge carefully managed the night before, then watch my little child swim thousands and thousands of miles a week before primary school started classes, only to take her back in the evenings for thousands of more kilometers of work in the afternoon as soon as the school bell rang.

As such our Development players are pussies completely under trained in skill and stamina compared to what little girls do in the pool and gymnastics under eastern European coaches in any given city in this country.

Our Child halves should be kicking like they want to be Maradona hand of God, foot of Jesus at training, and they should be trying to move and pass like Michael Jordan in training, for a hundreds of hours in a month, that will guarantee them entry to the door, the rest of the skills in rugby league they may or may not have, clubs will ignore and sign them anyway in the hope they can train the tackling side, and any other teachable skill on top...coz any child half that is an insane kicker with mad passing skills is instant millionaire in the NZ RL scene and a star across the NRL.

Lets face it, if a NZ RL club kid reached Olympic standard, rather than competing against a team of elites trained to the same standard, in club league they would be a GOD by comparison for their commitment.

Didn’t know about Bushido Sup, farout that was a deep dive, beautiful story about your daughter and supporting her choice. Lot of wisdom there koro, The way of the Supurai.

 

[Stalefish540]

Nathan Brown is also out with Aaron woods joining the bench.

Our middles will be having a sleepless night now with the former Kangaroos enforcers addition.

 

[The Warrior Waka]

Woods in for Nathan Brown is a bonus for us.

Brown dropped his nuts cos Jazz was playing

 

[Tragic]

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Our middles will be having a sleepless night now with the former Kangaroos enforcers addition.

Carrigan must be his love child, who do you reckon the dad is?

 

[sydneywarrior92]

crazy eyes out removes their impact from the bench and gives us the edge in this game. I rate our starting middles above theirs, so this omission makes it easier for ale and jazz to hold the fort when AFB and Barney go off (hopefully never at the same time). Our back 5 is more powerful than theirs, so I'm confident we can again win the field position battle, which is so important in this game given the rain. We could be in the top 4 at the end of this week if we win this.

 

[sydneywarrior92]

Both teams have enough points to win this game. The real challenge for both sides is going to be on the defensive side. Here I believe we have the edge: we are far and away the best defensive side this year on a per game basis.

 

[Makasene]

Both teams have enough points to win this game. The real challenge for both sides is going to be on the defensive side. Here I believe we have the edge: we are far and away the best defensive side this year on a per game basis.

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Far out, what would this look like if the Melbourne game ended in the 77th minute??

 

[CWC]

Wait.....

Why did I think he had retired?

He was on Fox critiquing South the other day, talking like a retired player not holding back, so i am surprised he’s still playing lol

 

[CWC]

Far out, what would this look like if the Melbourne game ended in the 77th minute??

I thought the same, they scored our game average in the final 2.5 minute WTF

We need to keep practicing cuz Storm and Panthers specialize in these type of comebacks

 

[Noitall]

He was on Fox critiquing South the other day, talking like a retired player not holding back, so i am surprised he’s still playing lol

He thought in the off season we wouldn’t cope with the pressure of being able to back up last season and saw us finishing down the bottom of the ladder. Hope the players were alerted to this

 

[CWC]

He thought in the off season we wouldn’t cope with the pressure of being able to back up last season and saw us finishing down the bottom of the ladder. Hope the players were alerted to this

He shouldn’t reflect his old team’s experience (Sharks 2nd yr syndrome) on us lol, Webby is special

 

[sydneywarrior92]

He shouldn’t reflect his old team’s experience (Sharks 2nd yr syndrome) on us lol, Webby is special

He really is a last resort for Manly in this game. When Lodge returns, his days are done even on the named reserve list. He might not even get on the field since I'm pretty sure Manly will focus on the Sipley, Bullemor as the prop rotation off the bench. They are solid players but not game breakers like Brown.

 

[CWC]

He really is a last resort for Manly in this game. When Lodge returns, his days are done even on the named reserve list. He might not even get on the field since I'm pretty sure Manly will focus on the Sipley, Bullemor as the prop rotation off the bench. They are solid players but not game breakers like Brown.

Lodge is not playing? Oh boy do we have the upper hand in the bench now? And we literally have our best starting 13 on the park, fingers crossed they know how to adjust to windy football

 

[sydneywarrior92]

Lodge is not playing? Oh boy do we have the upper hand in the bench now? And we literally have our best starting 13 on the park, fingers crossed they know how to adjust to windy football

Lodge is still out injured I think. I would have liked for him to have been bashed up by us in this game. I will never forgive him for treating our club like a transit lounge.

We have close to our best starting 13 but our bench is still far from ideal. I think at full strength we probably go CHT, Walker, Niukore and Bunty. That's a powerful, mobile bench right there.

 

[Makasene]

I thought the same, they scored our game average in the final 2.5 minute WTF

We need to keep practicing cuz Storm and Panthers specialize in these type of comebacks

I make it 9.6 per game without that blemish.

Miserly pricks

 

[RobRoyMcCoy]

Is Ben T. marking Roger? If so I predict RTS will have a field day. I suspect Manly might move Ben T. to mark Rocco and their speedy centre to mark Roger. I hope not, as I think Roger is ready to show his class at centre.

 

[Damo]

Weather has turned a bit, rainy and windy. Hopefully come game time it has cleared up

 

[WahsUltras]

Weather has turned a bit, rainy and windy. Hopefully come game time it has cleared up

Rain radar doesn't look too crazy, just a few showers. I'm more worried about the wind picking up.