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    Team v Dolphins

    No Vaimauga as well? My God. MV is right to point out we won last year v the Phins with more out. Who knows.
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    Biggest brand in NZ sports - NZ Herald article

    I honestly think the thing that aids league that hinders union, in some sense, is the working man's sport (league) v increasingly private school dominant (union). League has scandals every week. It revels in sensationalism. Whereas union has people in the media who are too intelligent for their...
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    Biggest brand in NZ sports - NZ Herald article

    Yeah exactly right. The NPC is the best product, it is 'amateur' enough that it still produces a high quality of rugby from decent players. From 2007-08 it was my job to watch NPC and I absolutely loved it. You say the best players aren't on show (and you're right) but look at Tasman's...
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    Biggest brand in NZ sports - NZ Herald article

    This paragraph is basically me. I don't try to watch every NRL game, but I do try to watch as many as I can and certainly watch all the highlights. I watch All Blacks highlights, too, but won't watch the game unless I am in mixed company with mates or in-laws which isn't that often. Given I was...
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    Team v Dolphins

    Yeah, it's definitely not over yet and it's not doom and gloom. Barnett was such a huge, HUGE loss. He might be nigh-on the best prop in the game in an all-round sense of professionalism, mana, ability, work rate etc. And without Metcalf, we just don't have any pace and ability to hurt teams...
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    Team v Dolphins

    These games where I expect us to get wiped are generally the ones we do better in, then when I expect us to win (Panthers, Titans, almost Knights) we don't. But I do genuinely expect we'll get 40 on us this week
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    Biggest brand in NZ sports - NZ Herald article

    Yep, absolutely fair he has. I reckon the Warriors brand has the ability to get within cooee of the ABs, at least in the local market. There's zero chance it will go around the world like the ABs have, but in NZ there's so much more momentum behind the Warriors. The All Blacks have rested on...
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    Team v Dolphins

    That was me. Jackson Ford is a better player than Marata, right now. He offers so much more. OK, they're not in the same position or similar players, I get that. But Jackson can put up 160m and 45 tackles, and cop a lot of blame while Marata catches a cold on the right edge and mostly avoids...
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    Team v Dolphins

    So what is Niukore's role, then? He's an $800k a year player, 6 foot 3 or whatever he is, 110kgs, and he's basically a tackle bot if he's not running. Or is he a decoy, meant to get it sporadically?
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    Team v Dolphins

    This one frightens me....Phins with a red hot left side attack and plenty of points in them, us with a right side D that leaks like nothing else, and they're coming off a 14-day break so will be fresh. Do love the 6pm AEST time slot on a Friday though
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    NRL Rd 21 2025 - General Non-Warriors Thread

    Was always going to happen after the emotional investment of beating Melbourne last week
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    F.O. Dallin...

    Yeah, maybe Boyd is an overlooked issue here. He certainly defended poorly against the Knights. Titans' first try, to me, looked like 100% a Capewell issue. How could he have known the numbers weren't adding up when he flew in on a guy who was out the back? Then he slips over to further F it...
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    Kiwis 2025

    I think all of us are very well aware now that Stacey Jones is not much chop as a coach
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    vs Titans Rd 21 2025

    Yeah but I don't think that's his fault, he's not a 9 at all. CHT is a better option. I get it, Webster doesn't want to change his halves. I just wonder where 6 TMM 7 Boyd 9 CHT is better for a game than 6 CHT 7 Boyd 9 TMM
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    Biggest brand in NZ sports - NZ Herald article

    To be honest mate, I think we react that way because we've been burnt before. The Owen Glenn/Eric Watson rubbish in 2012 made us pretty cynical about talking things up. And Cam George has form too, when his phone was running hot around COVID time
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