Vs Panthers Finals

[ZEROMISSTACKLES]

Kata and Maumalo not upto the pressure of finals.

Totally agree. You have to not know league to think they did well.

 

[flippikat]

Look,

What is needed now is that this is not another “once in 7 years appearance”. This needs to be consistent every year or so.

They will all be better for the experience. Penrith feel like an example, they have been at this stage past few years. They were down by 10 and found the way to claw back.

Trust the process?

Yeah, I think this is the first time in MANY years where I can confidently say "the Warriors will be better next season", and it feels GOOD to be able to say that.

This year was about breaking the finals drought - job done there - and showing that we can be contenders again. Sure, some of the old habits came back at times.. but that's what needs to be addressed in the end of season review.

We're not completely there *yet*, but I believe we there's the setup to push on from this season.

 

[Blair]

6mins left.
0% chance of winning.

Dr Death finally makes an appearance in 2018!

 

[Blair]

Turning point was that effing penalty at the ptb by Kata. Absolute momentum killer.

 

[Blair]

Another repeat set.
Dropout short, didnt work again.

I watched those closely at the game. Ken wasn't at all urgent with his attempts.

 

[Blair]

I had two Coronas before I entered the ground which meant I had four left in the fridge for when I got home.

Yes, I'm polishing them off now, but the excitement is wearing off and I'm feeling flat (not morose) about our season-ending defeat tonight.

I actually read this thread backwards! I couldn't stand the disappointment after such a promising start.

It's a general consensus that we had no answers once we fell behind. Which is quite extraordinary when we consider we only lost by 15.

Warrior Nation did us proud in Bay 106 and beyond. Although, from the momentum-murdering Kata-pinged ptb we fell flat and, like the team, we never recovered.

I was with 3-4 other fans who saw the team get on the bus from their Olympic Park hotel to the ground. The team manager gave us upgraded tickets (sitting behind the team bench). A nice touch, but I immediately went back to Bay 106, as that was where the action was!

 

[Blair]

...I can't see where points are going to come from though.

When it was up for grabs we were clueless and, therefore, ineffectual.

Manners, I love him to death, but far too many times tonight he got chucked the ball in attack and our momemtum stopped dead. It wasn't his fault either. He got the ball when he wasn't expecting it.

 

[Rich102]

Hope Johnson is watching Maloney

I think that is all he is doing.

 

[ZEROMISSTACKLES]

Turning point was that effing penalty at the ptb by Kata. Absolute momentum killer.

In the first 20 minutes, we were carting it out of our half. I think we were on the 40 metre line and it was the 4th tackle I think and Paasi was runnning full bull ready to get the ball and Luke, surprisingly, instead of feeding Paasi kicks it straight down to Mansour. One could argue that this was a turning point as well as the Panthers would score their second try of that dumb kick from Luke.

And guess who they bamboozle to break through and take the lead? Issac Luke. Not too long after that, Ken derp Maumalo would pass the ball (instead of hitting it up) that would see RTS injured who was still niggly because he played the Raiders game.

Just so many people to blame because there was a few derp moments by almost half the team.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

I think that is all he is doing.

We need to make a play for one of the Storm halves that have been in and out of the team this year. I feel the Johnson experiment is over, he is not growing as a player.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

When it was up for grabs we were clueless and, therefore, ineffectual.

Manners, I love him to death, but far too many times tonight he got chucked the ball in attack and our momemtum stopped dead. It wasn't his fault either. He got the ball when he wasn't expecting it.

Mannering had been playing second receiver a lot lately. I think he was expecting it, but shorter 10m gave him less thinking time.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

I watched those closely at the game. Ken wasn't at all urgent with his attempts.

That’s the thing, you have to put the bodies in their, 1 big jumper and 2-3 around the ball to catch any deflection.

They all read the press of we can’t win without RTS.

Leadership group has some big issues not being able to get the players up.

SJ massive passenger when he should have been injecting himself, positioning himself to find the gap or tired forwards.
Instead he was getting into dummy half or shoveling the ball on.

Green wasn’t at his best, have to question resting players when fit to play going into finals (if not 100% fair enough) may not be the best policy as he didn’t look match/game ready.

Kicking was awful all round.

 

[Beavers Headgear]

In the first 20 minutes, we were carting it out of our half. I think we were on the 40 metre line and it was the 4th tackle I think and Paasi was runnning full bull ready to get the ball and Luke, surprisingly, instead of feeding Paasi kicks it straight down to Mansour. One could argue that this was a turning point as well as the Panthers would score their second try of that dumb kick from Luke.

And guess who they bamboozle to break through and take the lead? Issac Luke. Not too long after that, Ken derp Maumalo would pass the ball (instead of hitting it up) that would see RTS injured who was still niggly because he played the Raiders game.

Just so many people to blame because there was a few derp moments by almost half the team.

Nailed the exact few minutes where the game was turned

Maloney 40/20 leads to a try, Luke kickoff out on the full gives Penrith field position and momentum, and the Luke's horrible kick on the 4th ended in more points and the momentum never swung back

 

[Big Marn]

Nailed the exact few minutes where the game was turned

Maloney 40/20 leads to a try, Luke kickoff out on the full gives Penrith field position and momentum, and the Luke's horrible kick on the 4th ended in more points and the momentum never swung back

preceded by a very hopeful low percentage Adam Blair offload. Might be having a different discussion if he had held onto it.

 

[vvvrulz]

Caught a replay late into the dark hours of the morning.

There's a few things I wanna call out:
- We tried hard and showed heart for the entire 80 minutes. I liked our effort, we could've lost by 40 and defended our guts out.
- The Panthers second 40 was Storm-like, it was close to the best half of footy we've been asked to play against all year. We badly needed RTS, a Sam Burgess type forward or Ken to get us out of trouble and nobody could handle it.
- There's a lot of talk of Johnson going missing, and he did, but neither he Green nor Bully had anything to work with for more than half the game because of how relentless Penrith were. It was akin to the 2011 Storm match where we were the ones shutting them down completely.
- I've been calling out for bloody years that if we field the likes of Kata and Maumalo in finals footy they're going to cost us games. Ken's gone missing for weeks; but with the margin for error so small Kata's bonehead errors (and the Blair 'offload') were absolutely crucial given we'd barely see the ball again in their half. Absolutely sick to death of Kata being immune when we have both Beale and Ayshford forced to sit out.

Overall it was a good year, we danced with the big boys and regained some presence in the NRL (although the newspaper ads kept missing us). I see this as our formative year before we go on to do better things, similar to 2001. We have to go on from here otherwise it's all useless.

 

[One Warrior]

Turning point was the offload by Blair, this was followed by Maloney's 40/20, it was all Panthers from there. I couldn't care less if I never saw Kata in a Warrior's jersey ever again, he can piss right off. On a positive note I do feel like this is like 2001 all over again, we made playoffs for the first time and then were blown away by the Eels in the first round of the finals. We made the finals when many expected us to get the spoon, the young guys will be better for it, we will be better for the experience next year, but please no Kata and end this experiment with the short kickoffs, it did not work tonight.

 

[Blair]

Caught a replay late into the dark hours of the morning.

There's a few things I wanna call out:
- We tried hard and showed heart for the entire 80 minutes. I liked our effort, we could've lost by 40 and defended our guts out.
- The Panthers second 40 was Storm-like, it was close to the best half of footy we've been asked to play against all year. We badly needed RTS, a Sam Burgess type forward or Ken to get us out of trouble and nobody could handle it.
- There's a lot of talk of Johnson going missing, and he did, but neither he Green nor Bully had anything to work with for more than half the game because of how relentless Penrith were. It was akin to the 2011 Storm match where we were the ones shutting them down completely.
- I've been calling out for bloody years that if we field the likes of Kata and Maumalo in finals footy they're going to cost us games. Ken's gone missing for weeks; but with the margin for error so small Kata's bonehead errors (and the Blair 'offload') were absolutely crucial given we'd barely see the ball again in their half. Absolutely sick to death of Kata being immune when we have both Beale and Ayshford forced to sit out.

Overall it was a good year, we danced with the big boys and regained some presence in the NRL (although the newspaper ads kept missing us). I see this as our formative year before we go on to do better things, similar to 2001. We have to go on from here otherwise it's all useless.

Nice summary of our misery! I'm not watching the replay.

 

[JJ]

Blair's dumb arse play followed by feigning an injury and taking half the set or more to rejoin the line sums him up for me, disgraceful, have I mentioned there's no player in the NRL I dislike more?

 

[JJ]

I still like the short drop outs but pretty geniused to continue them over and over when they're not working

 

[Blair]

The weather favoured Penrith no end. There was a lot slipping and dipping. Sure, that affected Penrith's backplay too, but we're more reliant on that aspect.