Match Discussion: Finals Week 2 vs Warriors @ Go Media Stadium, Penrose / Aotearoa

[perverse]

Has Brodie Jones even made it onto the field today? Or did we just play with 16?

Wait nevermind... he's come on now... thank god!

 

[Haffa]

We’ve got a player in Dylan Lucas.

 

[Seage]

Wait nevermind... he's come on now... thank god!

Imagine if he'd been on earlier? Could have cut that deficit in half.

 

[Tom155]

D has been totally pathetic today

 

[Yosh]

Was a fun season lads. Hopefully we come out much stronger and wiser next season. See you guys in 6 months.

 

[Haffa]

Can’t watch anymore.

 

[Zoidberg]

The only time we looked like we were in this was when we scored after half time, and that lasted 5 minutes.

 

[Woody90]

I’m strangely not super depressed about this like I thought I would be. Very sad way to end the season but at the end of the day I think the last 10 weeks has taken a lot out of us and our inexperience in big games was obvious. Own worst enemies in some regard but the Warriors were also great.

Hopefully this experience will be good for the boys and next season they’ll come back hungry to keep improving. Shows that there’s a reason teams don’t ever win the comp from outside of the top 4.

 

[Jono078]

This is not how you want to finish your season. Everything just completely unraveled today. We shit ourselves early on to be frank. Did well to fight back but we gave it back to easy and didn’t have it in us to go another gear.

 

[kaynine]

We'll be aiming for that top 4 spot next season, we came close this year

 

[perverse]

I’m strangely not super depressed about this like I thought I would be. Very sad way to end the season but at the end of the day I think the last 10 weeks has taken a lot out of us and our inexperience in big games was obvious. Own worst enemies in some regard but the Warriors were also great.

Hopefully this experience will be good for the boys and next season they’ll come back hungry to keep improving. Shows that there’s a reason teams don’t ever win the comp from outside of the top 4.

Pretty much my take too. It was a fun run, and there's a lot to learn out of it. Hopefully it results in a hungry off season and a better start to next year.

We got a lot of joy out of the season, unexpectedly. Next year we have to reach higher on the ladder and show we've learned how to play finals footy. Top 4 is a pass mark next year.

 

[Seage]

I’m strangely not super depressed about this like I thought I would be. Very sad way to end the season but at the end of the day I think the last 10 weeks has taken a lot out of us and our inexperience in big games was obvious. Own worst enemies in some regard but the Warriors were also great.

Hopefully this experience will be good for the boys and next season they’ll come back hungry to keep improving. Shows that there’s a reason teams don’t ever win the comp from outside of the top 4.

What more big game experience have the Warriors got?

 

[Woody90]

What more big game experience have the Warriors got?

They did a stat before the game, their line up had considerably more finals experience than us (likely mostly SJ, but still he changes their side).

 

[mozza91]

Thanks god that’s over. Really positive back end of the season but today was really poor. Hopefully these use it as motivation in the off season.

 

[Haffa]

What more big game experience have the Warriors got?

Tohu Harris, Dylan Walker, Shaun Johnson, Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad, Marata Niukore and Te Maire Martin have all played in grand finals with Harris and Walker both in premiership-winning sides.

Harris and Walker have played 13 finals matches, Niukore 10, Dallin Watene-Zelezniak nine, Nicoll-Klokstad seven and Johnson six.

Gags is our most experienced with 15. The rest a combined 35.

 

[NoSchitSherlock]

I really question those one up hit ups from the backs. I've questioned it before but it has worked. We got nowhere from it today. Needed a plan B.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Well, my preference if we were outed was to this mob. Good luck Warriors, you’re the only likeable team left.

 

[Loose Cannon]

I really question those one up hit ups from the backs. I've questioned it before but it has worked. We got nowhere from it today. Needed a plan B.

We would need forwards for that

 

[ryan.a87]

This game just highlight how important a half back is to any team

 

[Jono078]

We'll be aiming for that top 4 spot next season, we came close this year

I think for us to be hope of top 4 next year we need another injury free stretch to key players.

Dom Young is a huge loss. He literally accounted for 4 points per game this year.