Vs Panthers rnd 15

[Iafeta]

What about Fusitua. He looks like he has swallowed an overgrown bull. The only blokes who look in half decent shape are Herbert, Ken, Roger and Lawton. The others are “carrying condition”

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Haha, Kearney not happy with the "rude question" about if he was planning for next year. Haha

Edit: refreshed thread and discovered I'm slower than our forwards getting back onside.

 

[Iafeta]

Can you imagine him “planning”? If he’s been planning, he’s fn terrible at it.

What a shame. The guy was an absolute Kiwis great. Someone I idolised growing up. Even I say he’s got to go.

 

[Iafeta]

Actually no. In fairness he had one plan. Move Fusitua to the opposite side to accomodate Kata. Lol

 

[Blair]

It was probably for the best, guys. If Kearney had got us puttering along into eighth again he'd have probably got his contract renewed, with interest.

As it is I think he might go.

 

[Meth]

When Kearney said “that’s a disappointing question. Ordinary”, I think that the journo fired back “not really”

 

[Beavers Headgear]

It was probably for the best, guys. If Kearney had got us puttering along into eighth again he'd have probably got his contract renewed, with interest.

As it is I think he might go.

You may have missed the news on your summer sabbatical, they already extended him pre season

 

[Rich102]

I sat through the cricket yesterday. Five overs into our run chase I knew what was going to happen. Felt the same way about the Warriors.
10 (at home) playing 14. Opposition playing one man down for 25% of the match. Trouble was it wasn't even entertaining. Just boring from two of the most boring coaches in the NRL.
Jimmy Maloney is a match winner - he takes it personally and never gives up. Any Warriors you could say that about?
Kearney needed 3 years to build "his squad". This is the third.
How Kata performs at the Storm is going to be the litmus test.
It is getting harder and harder to attract good players here - whoever follows Kearney, and inherits his squad, is going to need to be a recognised coach with a proven track record.
Sadly the Warriors are digging themselves into a big pit.
We need to win games and/or play attractive, exciting football. We are doing neither.

Cameron the ball is in your court. Find an answer.

 

[Blair]

You may have missed the news on your summer sabbatical, they already extended him pre season

I was hoping they wouldn't do that.

OK, how about they fire him, end of season. People need their jobs, I don't say 'fire' someone lightly, but he needs to go. He'd get a pay-out, I'd presume.

When big fans, like folks on here, me included, become indifferent to the Warriors then that's a serious problem. Even our forum seems quieter. The Warriors management must know something's wrong.

 

[Penrose Warrior]

*THIS* - So much this.

All the talk at the start of this season was that his conditioning would result in no more dropping off, AND better decision making under fatigue.

Nope, and nope.

It's mental. You could make these guys run laps around the world, lift the biggest mountains over their heads for 100 reps each, make them as flexible as Dhalsim...but it's a much bigger assignment to stop them mentally clocking off. And our environment clearly is encouraging them to do this. Because we know Corvo got the Storm guys in the same nick, but they performed in games as well.

I think we might be seeing a second year syndrome effect in action. The first year, we knuckled down, got fit and stayed in games. This year, we turned up and it's all too hard now. We know how much the training hurts, we haven't valued enough how much it contributes and now we're giving up. It's the same phenomenon when a lot of people start a fitness regime as well. You go the first time, you're motivated, it's great. You think you'll do it forever. Next time you turn up, it's a lot harder - your brain knows how hard it is and wants to bludge. Same reason second year players tend to drop off, they know how hard it is and they struggle to match the raw, almost naive energy and drive of the 1st year.

But we expect more from these professionals. Only a handful are delivering it.

 

[Meth]

Jimmy Maloney is a match winner - he takes it personally and never gives up. Any Warriors you could say that about?

As soon as it went to golden point, it was obvious the Panthers were going to win. Because of this.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

As soon as it went to golden point, it was obvious the Panthers were going to win. Because of this.

And no one on the team has kicked a NRL field goal before (apparantly).

 

[Fufu Andronez]

And no one on the team has kicked a NRL field goal before (apparantly).

thought thats why we bought Green

 

[hitro]

2 things I noticed watching the game at the stadium
1 Adam Blair was walking around the lot amongst the Panthers just casually waiting for the game to come back to him, never seen anything like it
2 James Maloney was not gonna miss the field goal twice so it was do or die for the Warriors on that set. They did not look organised to me, you'd think it would be something they practice every week. But there were no second options set up and Blake Green was not very far back from the line compared to say James Maloney
I think the season is gone already but I hope they practice it 100 times next week and maybe Herbert should be the kicker with Green as the dummy target not too sure who has the best long pass from dummy half but that guy should be the passer

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Nrl have admitted that the Fus try was wrong, Luai shouldn’t have been binned, and one of the Penrith lads was 1min40 short in the bin lol

 

[Beavers Headgear]

2 things I noticed watching the game at the stadium
1 Adam Blair was walking around the lot amongst the Panthers just casually waiting for the game to come back to him, never seen anything like it
2 James Maloney was not gonna miss the field goal twice so it was do or die for the Warriors on that set. They did not look organised to me, you'd think it would be something they practice every week. But there were no second options set up and Blake Green was not very far back from the line compared to say James Maloney
I think the season is gone already but I hope they practice it 100 times next week and maybe Herbert should be the kicker with Green as the dummy target not too sure who has the best long pass from dummy half but that guy should be the passer

I watched Blair closely at the Warriors v Manly game last season, and without a word of a lie, within the 1st 5mins of the game, he wasn’t getting back behind the ball until the 4th tackle. Absolute bludger of a player

 

[JJ]

I watched Blair closely at the Warriors v Manly game last season, and without a word of a lie, within the 1st 5mins of the game, he wasn’t getting back behind the ball until the 4th tackle. Absolute bludger of a player

The leader and inspiration...

Shithouse player, shithouse squad and historically shithouse coach

Where's that smug git cloudsurfer who was lauding the potato and letting anyone who questioned Kearney know how stupid they were, "just wait until he cleans out the place and has the squad he wants" LMFAO

Unquestionably the poorest coach ever to have a sustained run at NRL level

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Nrl have admitted that the Fus try was wrong, Luai shouldn’t have been binned, and one of the Penrith lads was 1min40 short in the bin lol

Funny they never admitted that Lawton no try should have been a try.
Fus clearly not.
RTS knocked on apparently before the kick, pretty sure he was going for a drop goal ALA Slater, so fully justified sin bin!! haha
Wish I could say the 1min40 would have made a difference for our team.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

I watched Blair closely at the Warriors v Manly game last season, and without a word of a lie, within the 1st 5mins of the game, he wasn’t getting back behind the ball until the 4th tackle. Absolute bludger of a player

How does he get away with it?
There are GPS trackers and video you can't hide from it anymore.

Cooper on NRL 360 talked about training intensity, in an average NRL game a player goes 80-85m per minute, SOO goes up to 100m per mintue, Storm and Roosters train at 120m-150m per minute at intervals of 2 mins, 4mins and 5mins at different drills to help prevent fatigue and to go with teams when the game lifts.
I have a strong feeling we are not doing this.

Also commented on Culture being about the feel, when you walk into a place (not necessarily actions and words) you know what the culture is because it hits you in the face.
Starts from good people, good people make good leaders, good leaders make good decisions.

Storm based people staying in their squad on training and if they can handle their pre-season.
"if you got will, you can teach skill"

 

[ZEROMISSTACKLES]

Fus hasn't been the same all year and without Shaun, Fus has had fewer opportunities. We bomb to Ken who IS NOT a winger, which is stupid considering we have Fus who can 360 dunk a 12 foot hoop. We can blame Kearney for not instructing his halves to bomb it Fus's way.

What was Blair saying a few weeks back? we aren't mentally tough enough to play in the NRL, hmmm.