Warriors team list for round 2.

[kakaruk]

Listening to Fitzy announcing the team its apparent that he is very impressed with Napa.Wouldnt be suprised if Napa gets a run on Sat.

[Guest]

If what's happened to us over there in recent years continues it won't matter what we do, we'll lose.

Incompetent or seeming biased refereeing that has seen legal cut-out passes from Anasta [that have put our players in the clear and off to score tries] pulled back and judged forward.
Also other passes called forward that weren't...penalties for offside where we sure didn't look to be, penalties for holding down in tackles when we weren't...and if we were the Warriors were doing the same thing and weren't penalised.

Also, our supporters including women, were abused and intimidated on public transport and at the games.

Might as well just forfeit matches over there, and stay here and hold a 'Roosters Picnic Day' instead.

The NRL does not deserve us.

Bondi, you are deadset the saddest case going around

last week we get beaten and totally outplayed by the 2nd favourites for the comp, and you ridiculously blame the refs

this week we haven't even played yet, and you're suggesting biased refs will cost us the game

mate, if you actual believe the refs have it in for us, even before we've played, why do you watch the games? Why put yourself through this pre-determined hell?

Go and find another sport mate. It'll be good for your sanity

[Guest]

No need to worry. Just look at there team sheet. Coach M Elliott, we got this in the bag

Ain't that the truth.

He is playing one of their more promising back rowers at hooker.

Steve Rapira who had an ordinary game from the bench last week now gets rewarded with a starting spot.

I love hearing Elliot analyse games on Fox, but obviously that's where his talent stops.

He seems to breed a losing culture everywhere he goes. A naturally lazy team like the Warriors - that bodes trouble.

Their biggest mistake will be letting Ivan go. This will be more compounded when Panthers finish above the Bros, which is ridiculous given the difference in the squad talent and the fact that the bros enjoy such a home ground advantage.

[Guest]

Not happy about RTS being retained on the wing, if one try is scored down his wing, because he has left his opponent unmarked, I'll be calling Robinson a Smith clone.

And you'll be called a farking idiot and rightly so.

Chook.

[Guest]

Warriors to put up a fight.

[Guest]

Warriors to put up a fight.

of course they will

after getting thumped they're back and home and will lift considerably

it's a diabolical time to be playing them

[Game Fowl]

The way I see it...

Who are our four best backrowers? I would say, SBW, Cordner, Aubusson, Guerra. As Aubusson and SBW both play right edge, Guerra is a left edge specialist and Cordner is either tight at lock or left edge...

11. Guerra (left)
12. SBW (right)
13. Cordner (lock)

14. Aubusson

O'Donnell and Nuuausala are the notable ones to miss out here. Then, from there, you determine who our four best props are. I would say, Hargreaves, Tasi, Moa, Kennedy. Since Moa has forged a strong starting partnership with Hargreaves...

8. Hargreaves
10. Moa
11. Guerra (left)
12. SBW (right)
13. Cordner (lock)

14. Aubusson
15. Tasi
16. Kennedy

From here, the final bench spot is up for grabs. If you want a utility, Mortimer or Nafe are ideal, but if you want to throw in an extra forward we have Nuuausala and O'Donnell ready to jump in. As for the questionable form of Kennedy, if he continues to struggle we not only have Nuuausala and O'Donnell at our disposal who are more than capable of playing prop, but two massive young boppers in Evans and Napa biting at his heals.

Fairly good and articulated assessment Mack - Just a thought with LODs reputation of being hard perhaps he will be included in the FRow rotation.

[stsae]

of course they will

after getting thumped they're back and home and will lift considerably

it's a diabolical time to be playing them

I tend to agree, MrBaggs.

Nothing like a thumping to lift a side.

I'd rather be playing them after a win personally.

[stsae]

i can see houma from the jets getting a run mid season. if he backed up as good as he was in the finals, he has a shot. i see him and sam moa a simmilar wrecking ball style attacker.
i have also seen no bj listed anywhere. i wonder if there is a bit more about his dismisil than what we know. and no mose plaing at the riff, taka is a centre with the titts and tom is 18th for mandy

From memory doesn't BJ have a 4 week suspension to serve from the NRL??? I'm sure that's the mandatory thing now for a breach of discipline. Definitely more than meets the eye with his dismissal i agree. Shame I still think he's the most talented one we released. Waynekerr will probably have him playing Origin at some point.

Usually each season someone makes their name. I can't say I can recall Houma but if he's anything like Moa I will have a look next time I get to see a televised Pootown game mate. Moa seemed to handle starting 1st grade well.

[Guest]

Our team also has a lot to prove and will be seeking redemption after a poor first showing.

We have been unlucky in recent visits to Auckland and I firmly believe that this year we will change that trend and come away with 2 points.

[stsae]

Our team also has a lot to prove and will be seeking redemption after a poor first showing.

We have been unlucky in recent visits to Auckland and I firmly believe that this year we will change that trend and come away with 2 points.

As do all teams this early in the season.

I'm just trying being realistic at this point in the season mate.

Before last week many dismissed Souffs and believed we were morals because we recruited well. And from my view in this thread many are doing the same with the Worriers.

At home, after a big loss, with a coach who knows most of our players and their weaknesses due to his involvement for the past couple of seasons, I reckon some are again dismissing the opposition and banking on us simply being too good cos they are wearing RWB colored glasses.

We most probably won't fully click till later in the season, if we do at all. Sure we will win some games, and we will have to. But the reality of the situation is we have a new coaching structure, a new playing structure, new players and blokes who have to rid themselves of some bad habits and to be trained not to revert to them when the pressure is applied.

We have a lot to prove, mostly to ourselves, and have all the pressure on us mostly due to the great recruitment and the medias talking us up all off season.

Remember that supreme confidence A lot of fans posess can only lead to unrealistic expectations which can only lead to tantys and posts about mass sackings, like we've seen here for the last week.

I hope we get them, as you say we are bloody due, but I'm refusing to allow myself to get ahead of the reality of the situation.

[Guest]

i can see houma from the jets getting a run mid season. if he backed up as good as he was in the finals, he has a shot. i see him and sam moa a simmilar wrecking ball style attacker.
i have also seen no bj listed anywhere. i wonder if there is a bit more about his dismisil than what we know. and no mose plaing at the riff, taka is a centre with the titts and tom is 18th for mandy

He's with the Kights now but he's suspended for a few more games I think.

[Guest]

I wholeheartedly agree with you stsae. It would not matter whether either team won last weekend as an away trip to New Zealand is arguably the toughest in the competition. A loss on saturday night is not the end of the season and we need only look to both our bitter enemy South Sydney and the Brisbane Broncos last season to know that it is not about coming out of the blocks like a bat out of hell but finishing with a strong sail.

The expectation of a strong season has not been correctly thought out by many people, I feel. Until our first bye in round 12 we face all of last seasons top 8 teams bar the Cronulla Sharks. To expect immediate success is a tough enough ask as it is and we are going to learn some very harsh lessons and endure some very difficult times in the opening few months of this season.

I have faith that our team will find itself at some point but the reality is that we are in for a tough task to start the season and expectations must be brought back. It may not even happen at all this season.

[dj_sta]

The way I see it...

Who are our four best backrowers? I would say, SBW, Cordner, Aubusson, Guerra. As Aubusson and SBW both play right edge, Guerra is a left edge specialist and Cordner is either tight at lock or left edge...

11. Guerra (left)
12. SBW (right)
13. Cordner (lock)

14. Aubusson

O'Donnell and Nuuausala are the notable ones to miss out here. Then, from there, you determine who our four best props are. I would say, Hargreaves, Tasi, Moa, Kennedy. Since Moa has forged a strong starting partnership with Hargreaves...

8. Hargreaves
10. Moa
11. Guerra (left)
12. SBW (right)
13. Cordner (lock)

14. Aubusson
15. Tasi
16. Kennedy

From here, the final bench spot is up for grabs. If you want a utility, Mortimer or Nafe are ideal, but if you want to throw in an extra forward we have Nuuausala and O'Donnell ready to jump in. As for the questionable form of Kennedy, if he continues to struggle we not only have Nuuausala and O'Donnell at our disposal who are more than capable of playing prop, but two massive young boppers in Evans and Napa biting at his heals.

Thats the perfect forward combination IMO. Great post ! with the backs jusst swap Mini and RTS and bobs your uncle !

[bondi-boy]

Bondi, you are deadset the saddest case going around

last week we get beaten and totally outplayed by the 2nd favourites for the comp, and you ridiculously blame the refs

this week we haven't even played yet, and you're suggesting biased refs will cost us the game

mate, if you actual believe the refs have it in for us, even before we've played, why do you watch the games? Why put yourself through this pre-determined hell?

Go and find another sport mate. It'll be good for your sanity

My sanity is just fine.

Did you watch those games we played in NZ?