Great win, fantastic performance from the outset really.
It's amazing what difference it makes when you put in some effort.
For mine It's never been about ability with this mob, it's always been their application. Fix the application and you fix the results fairly easily. Our application has been appalling since Moses got injured after Round 3.
Having said that, the Warriors appear to have resumed normal transmission and last year was obviously a one-year wonder. They really need to have a long hard look at themselves. They were pretty inept most of the night.
When most of you here were predicting the Warriors to make the semis again and be a real force this season I posted that I didn't think that they would make that 8.
People just don't get it. The Warriors are the NZ version of us. We have been lucky that we have had a very good halves combination and a decent roster around them that has allowed us to make the semis consistently over the last few years even though we had a pretty average coach at the helm.
But as soon as we had a disruption in the halves this year and last the rest of the squad being as mentally piss weak as they are they all just fell apart.
The Warriors are exactly the same. Mentally piss weak and I couldn't see Shaun Johnson backing up what he did at his age 2 seasons in a row. He just isn't up to it and has never been that kind of a consistent player. So in my mind I felt that all it would take for a mentally weak team like the Warriors was, with all the back slapping and idolizing of the Wahs both by fans and the media, for the squad to just ease off on doing the extras and hard yards in the off season just that little bit that a content and happy with themselves squad can easily do and Johnson's predictable yoyoing form and or injury. Add to that the loss of Addin Fonua Blake to the Sharks for next season and the possible unrest that that would cause and hey presto...no top 8.
