No way the Warriors even deserve to be remotely thought of as a top 8 team. Some great individual players, woeful defensive structure and no hardcore clinical willingness to close out a game. Signs of a team with loads of NYC talent. THey're two years off.
I think this sums it up tbh. Cowboys did well to hang in there but the frustrated look on Milky's face at fulltime said it all. Warriors are 2 off seasons away from putting it all 'together' IMO, they could be unstoppable if they got their shit in a pile.
Cowboys, if they went out there and put their shoulders into the tackles early and went into the game with the mindset to go into a dog fight and scrap all arvo and just grind away I think it would have been even more of a contest. They were beaten before they got off the plane from the looks of things, once they realised the warriors have a bit of a soft underbelly, they had that 4-5 set on their line and took too much out of the tank and rightfully got put away. The commentators talking up Bowen was laughable, he made more rubbish mistakes than good things, thank f**k he is not Playing wednesday night because today was champagne crap Bowen and showed he isn't up to origin, of course he was going to run an injured Locke down, those 2 commentators are f**king geniuss. Payne was not much better, he was actually better with the ball in the halves than what he was at 9, I think this season being his last is a good decision.
Well done warriors, shame this game wasn't played outside of the origin period, I reckon full strength teams would lead to an absolutley pearler of a game.
