getting it done every week. And kevvie is cooked
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Best fans in the comp hands down.
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That interview is a coaches dream, that's the sort of stuff that you see in interviews with Jordan, Kobe etc. Id pay him top ten half money.
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"I told Webby I want to wear No.7 and I want to be that player. I want to be the one that the boys can rely on. I look at it as a privilege to be able to do that.
And
"There was no doubt in my mind that the years and the work and my dedication, I knew I was ready for it."
How refreshing is it that we 'must win' in order to keep up with the competition favourites, as opposed to our usual 'must win' games where we're sitting 12th and another loss puts us 2 or 3 wins outside of the 8....
I deffo prefer these 'must wins'!
First game I'm missing live this year, so I'm expecting us to win by plenty. Wahs 13+
The powers that be saw Madge as an old school disciplinarian to wrest back the soft underbelly of the Broncos.
Society has moved on. Young guys don't respond to that anymore. Leaders with that approach are dinosaurs. You have to be relational in this day and age. Cleary, Bennett are father figures, and as ruthless as the Storm is I'd say Bellamy treats his guys with a lot of respect.
Society has moved on. Young guys don't respond to that anymore. Leaders with that approach are dinosaurs. You have to be relational in this day and age. Cleary, Bennett are father figures, and as ruthless as the Storm is I'd say Bellamy treats his guys with a lot of respect.
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....
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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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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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.
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.
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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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.
Sounds like hes found his niche. Always come across as a nice guy with a footy brain, regardless of what happened
We are 2 wins away from equalling last years total wins (9). Mental.