Gameday thread for Warriors games. Post your thoughts/discussion/news as the day and game unfolds. Scores/Stats update every 5mins during the game.
Xt1ncT
tajhay
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im surprised they didnt try to bomb maloney as well. we were lucky at the end of the day, well below par.
Xt1ncT
How good was Shaun Johnson's first try? Awesome stuff - and getting over SKD for his 2nd was no mean feat!
Superstar!!
Superstar!!
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gREVUS
Long live the Rainbows and Butterflies
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yea said to the misses at half time that this game could come down to the rabbits missing the early kicks. On the screen they were discussing the mess at the end of the game as tho the ref blew it. i didnt see it that way, comments?
esoj
Was definitely not the most complete performance. bombed plenty of tries and gave away some silly penalties. the fullback curse continues and ropati looks set to be out for another lengthy time. in the end we did the 2 points and there were some nice touches in there and a great kicking display by maloney.
gREVUS
Long live the Rainbows and Butterflies
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Also would like to see us get a little more professional with our penalties, nil all and 30 infront of the post we should have kicked to be first on the board, as was said earlier in discussions pressure tells in games like this. In the days of Campion and Price we would never pass up easy points, why are we doing this now?
Moz
Take the win they cant all be pretty
I gotta say JWH kicked ass for the chooks, Packer impressed me today havent been his biggest fan this year. Masoe is a certifiable head case loved it when Manu put a shot on that fool
I gotta say JWH kicked ass for the chooks, Packer impressed me today havent been his biggest fan this year. Masoe is a certifiable head case loved it when Manu put a shot on that fool
Xt1ncT
Anyone else notice the pocket ref in our faces when we made tackles telling us to get up quickly, and yet they seemed to able to lie on us and hold us down for ages!
Moz
Tough decision in that situation though, on one hand 30m out in front of the sticks you take 2 points on offer and get posession back, or are you saying to the opposition we're only 30m out from your try line but we dont believe we can break your defence and arent prepared to back ourselves to?
¿N. ig-mah¿
That Aussie ref was riding us all night. I don't usually buy into the whole "refs are out to get us" conspiracy but tonight I think he was trying to keep the game "fair and even". It seemed like he was constantly trying to overrule or cancel out Perenara.
I'm really surprised Perenara was allowed to ref the coaches. Bad enough he is a Kiwi, but he played 3 games for us as well. I thought overall he reffed quite well and there was no obvious bias, but it got a little messy with both refs making different rulings at times.
gREVUS
Long live the Rainbows and Butterflies
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I heard that as well, partly what made me question the not kicking.
to mind Points is points, you get the ball back anyway so you still have control. I'm also a fan of the drop kick anytime your 10 mins into the end of a half and ahead even if that means that you kick 3 drop goals in the last 10 mins - points is points and u get the ball back
gREVUS
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While im not sure i can agree witht he language i do agree that he was pushing it tonight and getting away with it. If i was the ref i woulda marched him once and sent him twice. When the ref was telling him to shut it he never at any stage actuall shut up, even when threatened with being sent off. I agree that the game gives him the right to question the ref, god knows why - ive yet to see a ref change his decision after making one with out a linesman coming in, but he was completly over the top.
BTW is it an automatic penalty now for shoulder head contact? cause there is no way he should be on report for that.
wallacenz
at 1min 40ish of this highlights package you can see ropatis knee bone pushing out the skin on his knee (as hes going to ground). it doesnt break the skin but damn it looks sore
https://www.nrl.com/video/tabid/10959/contentid/448042/videotabid/153/default.aspx
edit: sorry if url not working, not sure how to fix that
https://www.nrl.com/video/tabid/10959/contentid/448042/videotabid/153/default.aspx
edit: sorry if url not working, not sure how to fix that
gREVUS
Long live the Rainbows and Butterflies
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worked for me but i couldnt tell anything from that - 2 pixilated for mind
ohh had to check the start it added 2 https- so i deleted all before the www
ohh had to check the start it added 2 https- so i deleted all before the www
¿N. ig-mah¿
yeah, saw it in your link. Just above the left knee right before going to ground. Didn't look pleasant, but I can't see how that resulted in a dislocated kneecap.
MarkW
Can't view the vid for some reason. Can someone tell me what exactly happened to Ropo in that tackle? Was it a leg and head injury in one shot?
I reckon half the 'smash-dem-bro' highlights this year will come from that game. Some MASSIVE hits indeed!
I reckon half the 'smash-dem-bro' highlights this year will come from that game. Some MASSIVE hits indeed!
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