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Another outstanding article outlining our pathways system, players to watch & the depth we have as a club. This guy is one of the most underrated content creators & deserves more appreciation, I learn a lot every time I see his stuff. Make sure we have a read, watch his YouTube, & give some feedback cos this guys one of, if not the best, on warriors content imo.

Inruin said:

Countless? Not sure about that.

Time will tell. There has to be a huge improvement in our attack for us to be anywhere near being legitimate contenders.

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The biggest improvement in our attack needs to come from fullback.

At the moment there's not a lot of threat coming from there.

The sporting fan still can’t quite comprehend or appreciate professional sports

The same knob that would change employer for a $1 an hour pay difference can’t wrap their head around a player weighing up between potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“Testing the market” is not “I’m leaving the club”. Its due diligence, and when it comes to down tens or hundreds of thousands a dollar a year then rightfully so I say. What kind of fool would not talk to the market.... Your telling me that every couple years I am free to go have a chat to other employers in my industry and either bring back better offers to negotiate with (and not have that be frowned upon) that i wouldn't do it????

These are all things some ppl need to try understand before they realize they just fell for the media spin/bullcrap in the first instance lol

roguei said:

While it is still related to the metcalf news, i found this post by his wife quite funny after the signing.
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Mysogeny and stupidity go hand in hand.

Whenever someone brings up AFBs wife, I remind myself that she wasn't there when he decided to be a tit and walkout on the dressing room....

She's a keeper Luke.

Wrighty said:

Tanwah in 2025 outplayed the following former warriors halves

Kodi in his warriors version
Ata hingano
Mason lino
Seas O’Sullivan warriors version
Ash Taylor
Ronald volkman

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I think the criticism of Boyd overlooks the fact that if his issue is confidence (don't disagree) that time playing the game will resolve this, especially under the type of coach we have.

I think he gets written off wayyy too prematurely, confidence or the lack thereof is not a permanent irreversible deficit - the world is full of great achievers who suffered confidence issues coming up through their rise.

The problem really is the Warriors expectations based off past experience, this is a club that has failed to turn around confidence issues in players and almost without exception sent them to the scrap heap where they have never recovered. Ergo the fans see someone choke in a game and they're written off forever.

This year Ben fecking Hunt won a title.

The thing about Boyd is that he has superior core skills of a seven, his tool kit of variation with his field kicking is decent, his passing game is solid, his playing at the line is good.

He has to fix his freeze under pressure. It may well be in his best interest to find a club where he is behind a dominant forward pack (like he enjoys in the NSW cup) which will lessen the pressure on his overall game and he will become a very fine NRL half. But then....aren't we the turning into the type of club that will have a dominant forward pack?

I think Boyd will be a very good half back one day. I also think it is fair to ask the questions around whether we need to be the club that takes the long term risk with a gamble on Boyd. And I might be wrong, he might never get there, but then can level that censure (never getting there) at any player we have coming up.

Lets not forget CHT has had a rocky career in FG, he is solid now, but he has had bags of shit too coming up - the solid player that is our six did not magically turn into one, he was given time and investment, he was allowed to play shit games and still get picked till he found his role/ and most importantly found the right partner.

roguei said:

While it is still related to the metcalf news, i found this post by his wife quite funny after the signing.
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Some shocking comments in there. Good on her for the response, could be why he acknowledged her so much when he spoke. Looks like he’s got a top lady

Taking the wahs kits away on honeymoon was a dead giveaway that he was staying.

Really positive signing, hopefully puts a dent to the narrative that Aussies come over here to establish themselves then piss off back to Aus as soon as they can.
Optics to other potential recruits is a reserve grader came over here and led the Daly Ms and despite courting offers from Sydney chose to remain. Certainly puts faith in our trajectory as a club and hopefully sways a few more on the fence about taking up an offer with us

tajhay posted a new item update Resigned till end of 2028 on the Item Luke Metcalf

This is a different breed of club administration we are in the midst of at the moment. Savour it.

Great work. Thank god that's over in these forums.

Obviously been sitting on this news for a while. Video they posted on social media signing the contract he wasn’t wearing his wedding ring… so assume sometime a few weeks ago!

Regardless… fricken awesome news!!

Noitall said:

Brought tears to my eyes. Massive endorsement for Webster and Metcalf’s Mrs

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I started tearing up too!! By I cry at anything. Hairs on my arm raised when he said he would leave no stone unturned to win a premiership for New Zealand.

Spence said:

One thing I love about Luke being here is that is he is an out and out footy head, he lives and breathes the game - it’s an important thing to have in the squad. Going back a decade I would be surprised if half the team even watched other NRL games.

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Dont even need to go back a decade. Remember when Walsh was here and how he was surprised noone else in the team watched any NRL games?

And Walsh was the rookie...

One thing I love about Luke being here is that is he is an out and out footy head, he lives and breathes the game - it’s an important thing to have in the squad. Going back a decade I would be surprised if half the squad even watched other NRL games.

Canonball said:

"Was always going to be here" :


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih7JdrZgHOw

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He gives 3 sentances to his family loving NZ and how the coaching staff supports that. And then the final 1 min is just "I want to win it all here, i'm gonna do anything to win it all here".

Canonball said:

"Was always going to be here" :


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih7JdrZgHOw

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Brought tears to my eyes. Massive endorsement for Webster and Metcalf’s Mrs. Genuinely thought he was gone

"Was always going to be here" :


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih7JdrZgHOw

Wahs_Ultras said:

Daily telegraph reporting that his new contract is “almost double” that of his previous contract which was 500k/season.

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They were also reporting he was off to the dragons on a 4 year deal, Aussie media don’t have a clue. regardless, 8-900k was the ballpark anyway, so makes sense.

Dunno why everyone was worried about. Was never in doubt

Big coup for the recruitment and retention team, and a massive tick of endorsement for the club as a whole getting this done before Nov 1st.

Fox League and the Aussie journos will be pissed.