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    BangBro's (still banging) said:
    About tongan loyalty, do you think this apply to Leka? Or because he was born here, he will stay loyal?
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    Leka was born in Tonga bro.

    I can't see Leka leaving us. He is loved by the club & is a fan favourite. He has the potential to be in the top earners at the club.
    The loyalty at his age is to his family. As with most polys, family & faith is first & foremost. We just need to pay him his worth and hope he keeps on delivering on his enormous potential.

    I don't want another Ali Lauitiiti scenario....
     
    Makasene said:

    View: https://youtu.be/U2ZJw73ysBs?si=CwyzedeB2o5hHOZP


    Great interview with Cappy.
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    The most telling thing in that interview comes early in the peace where McFadden says he jumped at the Warriors development and pathways manager position to provide security for himself and his family.

    That is the antithesis of the mantra around here where fans fret about our Aussie players not likely to stick around and all the posts about either throwing silly money at them, or the posts about not playing them in key Warriors roles because they won't stay (Metcalf thread if you want evidence of the Whining fans that Make a job in NZ sound like a life sentence).

    I think quite honestly that fans have no idea about how acutely tuned to the Aussie in NZ problem that Cappy and Webster live through themselves.

    These blokes know better than anyone how to identify Aussie who will adapt and how to make New Zealand a positive work place for them.

    It is staring us in the face.

    We are a great Aussie pathway offshore that from time to time will hire an Adam Fonua Blake, who will want to piss off when it suits, but hey he is Tongan and the Tongan league scene is not one marked by loyalty to countries outside of Tonga, ergo if NZ learned anything about Aussie based Tongans it is that they are even less likely to stay here than the ones who were born here and abandoned the Kiwis. Elise Katoa pissed off first chance he could, the Tongans are not loyal to New Zealand, yet these threads are flooded with Aussie exodus posts....Irony much.

    I think McFadden and Webster understand these nuances, they themselves live in a world where they are trying to help a New Zealand team win and Australian competition.

    I recon McFadden and Webster spend a lot of time horse Whispering all the Australians we have in every grade top down as to why the Warriors are a good option.

    We offer the chance to be the first NRL champions at this club.

    We treat our Aussies like star imports.

    The fans treat our Aussies like star imports.

    The Aussies who come here and play well get treated like Demi Gods on the street compared to backyard Sydney where they cop shit.

    Also McFadden and Webster seem to have woken up to the problem at the Warriors where they did not celebrate hearty Mana Maori.
     
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    Spence said:
    Stacey was on SENZ this week and mentioned that JFH does extras after every training and that three boys always stay with him: Laban, Leka and Demetric.
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    It was also probably JFH who gave Leka the idea to go blonde if his blonde goatee is anything to go by. 🃏. But jokes aside, these are the three boys that stand to gain the most from Fish's tutelage. Having those boys come through our system and develop together under fish could eventually mirror what we saw at Penrith with Spencer Leniu, Kikau, Liam Martin and the like. Great times ahead.
     
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    Inruin said:
    And from memory we were playing a good style of footy but hit with key injuries during his time.
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    Back in those days (2012-2017), we had the habit of starting the season drunk, making a recovery during origin and giving us momentary hope, and then collapsing absolutely in the final third of the season to finish in the bottom four. Changing the coach never really changed that pattern whether it was Bluey, Elliott, Cappy or SK. In hindsight it really wasn't Cappy or any of the coaches fault, we just had a rotten culture driven by a handful of players that needed to be cleaned out. At least now our club seems to be a happier and more healthy environment for success.
     
    3rdstriker said:
    We have been just winning and we are coming 2nd it feels like were in 3rd gear,
    What if we actually start clicking and combinations become slicker edge defense improves slightly we'll put the whole comp on notice. I feel this week we will either click and potentially do a number on the phins or we'll go out with huge fatigue.
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    JFH coming back is huge for this team. Listening to Stacey's interview on Sport Nation, it seems that JFH and Barney are very different types of leaders. Barney is more vocal whereas JFH inspires the young middles through his actions rather than words. He mentioned how Laban and Leka in particular are often the last to leave training alongside JFH doing the extras. With JFH back on the field, I think our middle defense intensity goes up a gear for this game.

    Also I expect DWZ to be more involved in this game as he was a little passive last week, probably blowing off some cobwebs. With DWZ, RTS and CNK all back together, I expect our power game to go to another level. I also expect Barney and Wade to lift in their last auditions before origin. In short, we should be raring to go again rather than burning out on our last fumes as many in the media seem to be suggesting.
     
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    MrFrankWhite said:
    Sounds like hes found his niche. Always come across as a nice guy with a footy brain, regardless of what happened
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    After listening to that Matt Elliott interview where he described how dysfunctional the team was, I think Cappy did well for us to be in consistent finals contention during his tenure as coach. He's doing a great job for us in the recruitment field.
     
    Theking267 said:
    The issue you have if you re-sign Martin & keep Boyd is that you don’t want TMM to play in the centres or at lock. The way Lussick has been used this year playing prop. Although it’s kinda work out now with Sam probably being the 14th man going forward in NRL & Lussick being the starting hooker in Cup.
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    The way they have been playing Lussick in cup is not so subtlety telling him you have no future at the club.
    To his credit he hasn't dropped his lip.
     
    I think we are reading way too much into our 2nd half fades. To put things in context, both games we were in complete control until key injuries in the second half screwed up our forward rotation and forced our young forwards to play longer minutes than they otherwise would. In the Dragons game, I'm pretty sure we had a 1 man bench at one pt with Ford gone after the 41st minute and Bunty gone after the 60th and Niukore going off for 15 mins due to a bogus HIA call as well. In both games we ended up having to play Healey/TMM in the middle which is not ideal. Any team would have lost momentum with those things going on.

    So I think the 2nd half fades are more a reflection of these mid-game injuries than any wider implication than people are trying to draw regarding our long term fatigue. In my view, we go on to win both games 13+ if we don't get decimated on the injury front mid-game.
     
    Why would we release Boyd this season? We have 4 halves who all have first grade experience and can do the job. Let him go and it only takes one injury and then the cupboard starts looking fairly bare. It was only last season we ended up with CNK as a make shift 6. We are in a good space, with a squad, with depth in most positions. We release no one this season.
     
    Metcalf would be a fool to walk away from the Warriors.

    Webster has changed his life, made him the man, fixed his legs, given him a happy environment, given him whatever position he wants.

    What other NRL coach would treat him so, or stick by him when the performances were horribly clunky?

    Like I say, Metcalf would be an idiot to walk away without treating the Warriors as first option.

    Sure he will be worth more money next round, but the money has nothing to do with why Metcalf came here in the first place.

    Fans need to stop fretting about throwing money at this guy and embrace that Webster is going to be one of the small group of NRL coaches that players want to play for.

    I would be very disappointed if the Warriors tried to use money as the reason for Metcalf to stay, market value offers no more. If he doesn't want fair market value then it is not about the money it is about geography and not understanding how good his life has been here in New Zealand, as such let him go no worries.
     
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    Theking267 said:
    Gannon will be the backup 6
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    Our successful game plan this year involves both our halves making valuable contributions with the boot. Gannon has 3 kicks in his 12 games this season & didn't even put boot to ball in the game he started at Five-eighth. In the press release when he signed the quotes from McFadden repeatedly used the words backrower & forward. Maybe mid game due to injury, but I very much doubt he'd even feature on the depth chart of #6's
     
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