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    And on a positive note:

    Clarke - great game. Mr reliable giving 100% every run. Battering ram!

    RTS - similar to the good old days. Playing with confidence.

    Leka - x-factor. Starting to expect a try a week now!

    Healey - explosive but my highlight was the footy IQ. Passed wider when needed to unsettle the fast defence. Excellent game.

    Capewell - plays better in the second row.

    EIT - great debut. Did nothing wrong. Welcome to the big league!

    CNK - injured or attitude? Lots of opportunity to get involved but pretty non existent.

    Webster - changed up the team positively. Allowed offloads. For a conservative coach, he made some big moves.
     
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    I’m still completely pissed off with how our club is treating its loyal Auckland-based members, the ones who’ve been there through the worst seasons, kept turning up, kept renewing, and kept believing. We now have only:

    Just 9 home games

    No ANZAC Day game

    And absolutely nothing meaningful in return for years of loyalty.

    The club seems to have forgotten the people who carried them through the hard years: the loyal, long-term members.

    Those who year after year, rain or shine, win or lose. The ones who kept renewing their memberships when we were struggling.

    I still remember the last game of the 2016 season at Mt Smart.

    We were up against Parramatta. It was wet, cold, Sunday evening and the season was already a write-off.

    But we were there the loyal ones.
    Just about 7,000 of us, soaked in the stands, still turning up when the club had nothing to give back but disappointment.

    We didn’t show up because the team was winning.

    We showed up because the club meant something to us.

    I’ve spoken to members who’ve been with the club for over 20 years and they’re gutted.

    It feels like the club has chosen hype over heart and those who’ve earned the right to be heard are being completely ignored

    Its now all about the corporates, and the bandwagon members who only showed up when the wins started coming.

    The Warriors need to wake up. The foundation of this club isn’t built on shiny sponsors or fair-weather fans it’s built on loyalty, sweat, and decades of belief.

    Come on Cameron George look after your loyal members.
     
    Theking267 said:
    Khan-Pereira is about the worst option the Warriors could get. He has a high error rate and doesn’t do any work out of the back field. Hence why he’s been dropped by Hasler even with his try scoring record and he doesn’t fit the Warriors system. I much rather have Sami he fits a lot better the Warriors system
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    I have a friend who works for Dynasty, he said they had some of the Titans in for a photo shoot and that AKP was the biggest f***head, he was publicly blowing up their marketing manager because they were running late,
    generally carrying on like he owned the place, some of the other players were rolling eyes and said he would be spoken to later about it.

    I'm sure if he is like that then Erin and Tanah would give the club the heads up.
     
    sup42 said:
    I get the argument but it is the same false economy that saw us release Fusitua and Vailea.
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    False economy?

    Webby's had 3 years with this team, and to date, has taken them to top 4 twice, regardless of where injuries have us at the end of this year.

    Obvs he's inherited many players who he sees as not suiting his style of play, so ones the likes of TMM, Bunty, Ale, Niukore and a few others move on, I think we're going to see some magic

    I'm particularly looking forward to the next two years when the youth brigade - Demi, Ali, Leka, Healey, TSS, Laban, Gannon, Linnene, Jett, and Fatialofa are all getting good game time.

    I think with all that promising youth coming through, and likely on cheaper contracts, we only need to recruit two or three top players to really give the competition a shake up in 2027 or so.
     
    sup42 said:
    It is funny that one of our desperate solves is the need for a defensive Winger and this guys name comes up.

    We need his speed, why? so he can make errors and let in more Try's faster?

    You have to laugh. The Warriors need defensive backs that are not slow. In that order.
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    We have currently the leagues 4th best defence and 13th best offence. One area has much more room to improve. If AKP can even be a slightly below average winger defensively thats a net gain considering what he offers on attack.
     
    Cameron George says there's only 1-2 spots on the roster next year then clarifies it's one. NRL website currently lists 26. "Lots of kids coming through". When pressed on external recruits he mentions looking for someone fast but states that could be an outside back or a forward. On that, on Facebook today I've read someone reckon that they saw AKP at Auckland Airport last week, prior to the Titans team flying in.
    Recruitment chat from 8:30 onwards.

    View: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6qkWmf2rQsnLILCWP68YfD?si=lBn0fKLDRK-kwPqIJJbNVw
     
    PhilsySH35 said:
    unlucky bro, just listened to ash podcast about why dallin jams in, it is to help his center inside man force ball player into the risker option of the cutout pass to the winger, I never could understand that, you tackled your man, job done or and if you could then help your team mate, when I played it was pretty simple man on man defense, played openside prop so don't know the intricacies of the backs, back in the day it was simple tackle your man if the inside man needs help from the winger then he bloody useless, get someone in who can, one thing I would encourage dallin to do is to try what I call dummy tackle - make as if you're going in to help your center, feint in (just needs a half a step or sway in the direction and then smash your winger even if he doesn't get the ball, I did something similar in the forwards i.e. make out I was going for a legs tackle down low then I'd come up high targeting the ball area - caught the ball runner out a few times - gotta do the unexpected! - us props are not just pretty boys tho like the backs lol.
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    In the modern game with the 2nd man plays, decoys and stacking sides with numbers means man on man is rarely the case and an edge defender has to jam in pending on the shift. I think also what people need to realize if your an edge defender and the ball is on the opposite side of the field your never standing opposite your winger or centre to start with. Your inside shoulder or probably even further infield to compress the defensive line which closes that space up around the ruck. Always get a chuckle when i hear "why wasnt he on his man"

    Dals issue seems he doesnt let the play unfold as to wether his insides can actually recover before he makes that decision to jam and presents that outside oppertunity when if held out a little longer there was none.

    In saying that tho against the Titans u couldnt fault Dal for the tries being scored on his edge. Capewell was the one jamming in early and Dallin just followed him. Any good winger knows when your centre jams in u follow him. He followed policy. Week before he was diabolical thoi.
     
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    MrFrankWhite said:
    @Inruin light those candles in your TMM shrine. Hope your boy can save us
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    No shrine mate but the last 5 games or even more have shown we needed to lift our attacking threat. It won't be one player that wins or loses this game. Hopefully Boyd/TMM can click and deliver, though like most pundits know, it's difficult for halves to prosper if the forwards arent laying a platform. Can ours do enough to at least get parity?

    I'm hoping TT comes into fullback and CNK to the centres because that bench looks very light and I don't have faith with Capewell in the centers.

    Look, I don't think we were going to go far with a Boyd/CHT halves pairing. It will be a massive effort if we get the win, but even a strong showing could be enough to give confidence for a run home. The Dolphins are a very good side and play good football. They are deserved favourites but we have seen this season that doesn't necessarily translate in to results.


    I'd rather a team with TT, Boyd, TMM and Healey as the spine playing footy and trying stuff than falling to dour losses from robotic play.

    Let's see how we go, nothing to lose really is there.
     
    kos said:
    I don’t know

    Can you teach a poor defender to defend well?
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    Shaun Johnson.

    Couldnt tackle for shit when he came to the club.

    Reuben Wiki took him under his wing, ran at him every practice until eventually he was putting the likes of Sam Burgess on his arse.

    Darren Lockyer another. Was a shit defender so every team targetted him until through probably sheer repetition he became competent,

    Dallins issue isnt tackling, its reading the play.
     
    Warriorsfan92 said:
    That’s the warriors defensive policy? They jam, which is a higher percentage play that forces the opposition into a statistically more difficult pass (long ball to wing).

    He jams, because his centre jams, because his edge jams. It’s a defensive policy. I’d rather they score on an edge rather than through the middle. I’d obviously rather they didn’t score at all but lumping all of the blame on a winger ain’t it.
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    He doesnt jam, he goes halfway and second guesses himself then hesitates.

    Pompey jams, RTS jams, Taine jams, even Ali jams, DWZ gets isolated and exposed
     
    I actually feel bad for Webster. He has taken a roster that lets face it is not top 4 on paper to the top 4. He then gets to see us perform like that in the weekend. When I heard about Tohu, I actually posted somewhere on here that I thought we would be bottom 3. I am still surprised that we are in the top 4.

    At the beginning of the year we had a quality pack with fast defensive line speed and had some effort players like Capewell and Rocco that would chase the kicks in the corner. We had very limited x-factor which was our rookie half and Leka and to a lesser extend Demi but he mainly plays a middle role. Somehow he gotten us to win 12 times. It is a limited and fairly boring game style but it suits the team he has.

    I also see plenty of people post that we should recruit this player or that player but the reality is that we as a club have always struggled to get players over here. Sure we get the odd players which we can all name but we are not a destination of choice for NRL players. This why Webster does not have fast outside backs. We will have to rely on our pathways, take a chance on a NSW Cup player or hope a Kiwi NRL player gets homesick.

    As to the gameplan. They had a preseason and practice every week to play a certain way. To change it radically at this stage I just could not see it happening. Next year though if LM is still unavailable then a Boyd/Linnane looks interesting. Linnane seem to be quick off the mark. I would also have TT at fullback. Would love to see him play a role like Papenhuyzen does for the Storm or Drinkwater does for the Cowgirls. CNK would be in the Centres as our current ones Pompey aside seem to be broken most of the time.

    Webster is a quality coach in my view. We just seemed to have run out of steam. That could change as a week is long time in the NRL but the team looks broken and tired atm.
     
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