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Trials 2026

Philip_Smith007

Philip_Smith007

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Main thing I learn is NRL refs never change.
Ford penalised for guy falling over.
Strip call when Manly player seemed to let ball go and ball wrapped up.
High shot on Warriors player let go, but had to go off for HIA.

So many poor handling errors, Halves extremely poor.
Short kicking game a shambles.
Defensive structure on tryline need major work.
Conversion attempts shit.
 
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Penrose Warrior

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Philip_Smith007 said:
Main thing I learn is NRL refs never change.
Ford penalised for guy falling over.
Strip call when Manly player seemed to let ball go and ball wrapped up.
High shot on Warriors player let go, but had to go off for HIA.

So many poor handling errors, Halves extremely poor.
Short kicking game a shambles.
Defensive structure on tryline need major work.
Conversion attempts shit.
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Sounds like a successful hit out Philip my man?!?!
 
Big Marn

Big Marn

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Philip_Smith007 said:
Main thing I learn is NRL refs never change.
Ford penalised for guy falling over.
Strip call when Manly player seemed to let ball go and ball wrapped up.
High shot on Warriors player let go, but had to go off for HIA.

So many poor handling errors, Halves extremely poor.
Short kicking game a shambles.
Defensive structure on tryline need major work.
Conversion attempts shit.
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all that hard work in the preseason paid off then?
 
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Penrose Warrior

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Anyone show out that holds any promise to us? When even our official site says disappointing trial performance...I guess not
 
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Izz

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My thoughts from the stickied thread:

Positives for me:

Ali
Vaimauga
TSS
Leka (when he went back to second row to start second half)
Caelys-Paul Putoko

The last 15 when the young lads came on

Other thoughts: Boyd offered little. A couple steps off the pace. Wonder if he'll get another run next week to prove himself

Hansen looked dangerous at times

Jack Thompson one to watch over next couple seasons. Small but great footy IQ

Mellars not FG-ready imo. Pasikala looked better.

Morgan Gannon also not quite FG-ready imo. Not far off but needs a few rounds in Cup to work on his ball handling and while defensively sound, didn't dominate any tackles
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hitro

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Demetric was good until he was shouldered in the head
Boyd was not good he has no flair the kid that came on at the end did though
Halasima was pretty good and Capewell
Ford and Gannon terrible why are they in the team?
Putoko might be good he was in 23 which is always a number for dicks to think they are Jordan such as Ridge
But he stuffed up a number of times and then started to look ok
TSS and EIT looked good
Where is CHT? They needed him
Te Maire also could have made a difference with some creativity, I know he's with the Maori team but just saying the play making wasn't there at all
 
Matua

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hitro said:
Where is CHT? They needed him
Te Maire also could have made a difference with some creativity, I know he's with the Maori team but just saying the play making wasn't there at all
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The commentators kept going on about how much depth we have in the halves. What were they smoking?

Philip_Smith007 said:
Ford penalised for guy falling over.
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I can understand that from the refs point of view, the majority of the time he'd be correct with Ford.

Anyway, that was an average performance on a crappy day in the Bay, but you can't really take too much from trials I giuess.
 
Philip_Smith007

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Matua said:
The commentators kept going on about how much depth we have in the halves. What were they smoking?


I can understand that from the refs point of view, the majority of the time he'd be correct with Ford.

Anyway, that was an average performance on a crappy day in the Bay, but you can't really take too much from trials I giuess.
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The halves depth commentary was hilarious, but rightly criticised the choices and execution of kicks.

It was just a trial, but simple ball handling was very poor (yes it was wet).
 
Fufu Andronez

Fufu Andronez

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TSS
Putoko
Taufa (dummy half)

Were the clear standouts.

All in all pretty rusty. At least this trial confirmed that Boyd is not up to it. This is the level (reserve grade) that he's supposed to dominate. Someone needs to jump out of the ground and take that jersey off him though. I reckon if Jett wasn't injured, he'd actually be a decent shout.

TMM needs to show webby that it should be him.

Leka to centre experiment didn't work
 
Manu Vatuvei

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Isn't the halves depth comment literally true, in that we have an excessive number of halves on the books?

Unfortunately not many of them are first grade standard....
 
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Penrose Warrior

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Manu Vatuvei said:
Isn't the halves depth comment literally true, in that we have an excessive number of halves on the books?

Unfortunately not many of them are first grade standard....
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No, that's hard to argue.

Now we have TMM, Metcalf and Cleary injured, as is CHT. And Linnane, given he didn't play last week and isn't selected this week?

Hanson/Boyd would be pretty dire as a FG combination. Hanson looked lost last week (and it was basically against a NSW Cup side which he's used to) and Boyd, apart from the Tigers game last year he was a real disappointment.

Why are the 'hello darkness my old friend' feelings coming back to me before round 1?

I'd be seriously considering TT at 6, with Boyd at 7 if CHT was out for round 1 (he's not meant to be, but if the calf doesn't get better)
 
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Penrose Warrior

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Two former Warrior sons on the Dolphins bench, Issac Luke's wonderfully named son Adaquix-Jeramiah and Nathan Fien's son Noah. Kristian Woolf's nephew also named, as is 90s cricket blast from the past, Murphy Su'a's son Sebastian.
 
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