• Categories
Collapse

The Silver Fern

NRL 2018

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Sports Talk
leaguewarriors
1.5k Posts 58 Posters 165.4k Views
NRL 2018
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • raznomoreR Offline
    raznomoreR Offline
    raznomore
    wrote on last edited by
    #438

    Is there any probable chance of Lino being thrust into the Kiwis reckoning? Would he switch allegiances?

    Part of me, the Samoan side, wants him to just play for Samoa but then Samoa are piss poor so better off just playing for the Kiwis.

    SneakdefreakS 1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • SneakdefreakS Offline
    SneakdefreakS Offline
    Sneakdefreak
    replied to raznomore on last edited by
    #439

    @raznomore Think Lino will stay with Toa Samoa which is better for rugby league anyway.

    Luke has been ruled out of tomorrow's game. Karl Lawton to start and Sam Cook will probably come onto the bench.

    NepiaN 1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • NepiaN Offline
    NepiaN Offline
    Nepia
    replied to Sneakdefreak on last edited by
    #440

    @sneakdefreak said in NRL 2018:

    @raznomore Think Lino will stay with Toa Samoa which is better for rugby league anyway.

    Luke has been ruled out of tomorrow's game. Karl Lawton to start and Sam Cook will probably come onto the bench.

    Balls.

    raznomoreR 1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • raznomoreR Offline
    raznomoreR Offline
    raznomore
    replied to Nepia on last edited by
    #441

    @nepia If Lawton plays anything like he did last game then we should be ok.

    NepiaN 1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • NepiaN Offline
    NepiaN Offline
    Nepia
    replied to raznomore on last edited by
    #442

    @raznomore said in NRL 2018:

    @nepia If Lawton plays anything like he did last game then we should be ok.

    The beach muscles boy wont have nearly as much influence as Isaac has this year - Blake Green is getting a lot of the plaudits but Luke has been the key to this team this year IMHO.

    canefanC V 2 Replies Last reply
    3
  • canefanC Online
    canefanC Online
    canefan
    replied to Nepia on last edited by
    #443

    @nepia said in NRL 2018:

    @raznomore said in NRL 2018:

    @nepia If Lawton plays anything like he did last game then we should be ok.

    The beach muscles boy wont have nearly as much influence as Isaac has this year - Blake Green is getting a lot of the plaudits but Luke has been the key to this team this year IMHO.

    Green is getting deserved credit. As is Luke. Adam Blair has been keeping his nose clean of late which is good too

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • V Do not disturb
    V Do not disturb
    Virgil
    replied to Nepia on last edited by
    #444

    @nepia said in NRL 2018:

    @raznomore said in NRL 2018:

    @nepia If Lawton plays anything like he did last game then we should be ok.

    The beach muscles boy wont have nearly as much influence as Isaac has this year - Blake Green is getting a lot of the plaudits but Luke has been the key to this team this year IMHO.

    Dare we say it, the warriors have one of the best spines this year.

    canefanC 1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • NepiaN Offline
    NepiaN Offline
    Nepia
    wrote on last edited by
    #445

    Well the old days are back - in two respects.

    1. The Warriors are making errors all over the place.
    2. The reffing is, how do we say, a bit iffy. Blake Green gets laid after a kick and it's play on, a few minutes later and Blake Ferguson gives a celebratory fist in the air for knocking the ball dead before the Warriors could score a try. Refs give the ball to Roosters and they eventually go in for a try down the other end.

    Beach muscles and Tevaga have been average filling in for Luke.

    1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • canefanC Online
    canefanC Online
    canefan
    replied to Virgil on last edited by
    #446

    @virgil said in NRL 2018:

    @nepia said in NRL 2018:

    @raznomore said in NRL 2018:

    @nepia If Lawton plays anything like he did last game then we should be ok.

    The beach muscles boy wont have nearly as much influence as Isaac has this year - Blake Green is getting a lot of the plaudits but Luke has been the key to this team this year IMHO.

    Dare we say it, the warriors have one of the best spines this year.

    Not tonight they don't. Not tonight.

    1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • canefanC Online
    canefanC Online
    canefan
    wrote on last edited by
    #447

    Green gets hit with a late no arm charge. Blair got sent to the bin for that

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • DonsteppaD Offline
    DonsteppaD Offline
    Donsteppa
    wrote on last edited by
    #448

    The Warriors in 2018, mostly brilliant, but occasionally they forget to turn up to a game...

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • W Offline
    W Offline
    wildman
    wrote on last edited by
    #449

    They looked like they focused on what they were going to do for the pregame and not on what they actually had to do to win the match

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • boobooB Do not disturb
    boobooB Do not disturb
    booboo
    wrote on last edited by
    #450

    Dare I say it ... but typical NZ league. Start believing your own press ...

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • SneakdefreakS Offline
    SneakdefreakS Offline
    Sneakdefreak
    wrote on last edited by Sneakdefreak
    #451

    Well, not watching the replay of that stinkarse game.

    alt text

    Oh, hi Mark!

    No Luke, no luck: It's no coincidence that their two worst games of the season have been when Isaac Luke wasn't on the field for the full 80 minutes. Karl Lawton and Jazz Tevaga couldn't get anything going in the middle of the park which meant the Roosters just had to target the two halves. When Luke is in form he commands so much attention in the middle of the field that teams have to commit more defenders thus leaving less defenders on the edge.
    It's critical to the Warriors this season that Luke is healthy going forward. Put the Maori in bubblewrap.

    Losing Lino: Bad enough the score but losing Lino to injury is a worse loss to the Warriors. Shaun Johnson needs to drink a large case of harden the fuck up (He can grab a box from Bully's fridge) because the halves depth chart is running out of depth. Unless....Hiku to stand off and the recently returned Gerard Beale to centre? Nah, just harden up Shaun.

    The real MVP: The guy who kicked a field goal from 20m and 30m during halftime to win $5,000. I'm not giving the MVP to any of the Roosters. Fuck those guys.

    What about the other guys?: Fuck the other guys. Bunch of cocks. Well, they are the Cocks so good to see them living up to their namesake. So where do we begin....Dylan Napa should have been sinbinned for not one headshot, not two headshots but three headshots during the game. The one where he cut Paasi (which was also a shoulder charge) should have definitely been 10 minutes in the bin. Jared Waerea Hargreaves was committing dirty hits through out the game and only got sent off at the end because Adam Blair called him an Uncle Tom or something during a scrum. The refs were allowing way too much dirty play in this game and seemed reluctant to do anything about it. Probably cause the Cocks have the NRL in their backpocket.

    Other negative feedback: So new ownership appears to mean a new stadium announcer and it appears the new owners of the Warriors got Jeff from the Glenora Bears to do the announcing throughout this game. Jeff from the Glenora Bears didn't shut the fuck up for most of the game. If he wasn't trying to sell me a new Suzuki Swift, he was trying to get the fans to chant "Defence" when we were down 24-0.

    1 Reply Last reply
    7
  • raznomoreR Offline
    raznomoreR Offline
    raznomore
    wrote on last edited by
    #452

    Having seen Johnsons leg on instagram i dont think he'll be back next game.

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • SneakdefreakS Offline
    SneakdefreakS Offline
    Sneakdefreak
    wrote on last edited by
    #453

    Cam Smith retires from rep footy. Queensland's era is probably over now their big three are gone (Cam, Thurston, Cronk).

    canefanC 1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • canefanC Online
    canefanC Online
    canefan
    replied to Sneakdefreak on last edited by
    #454

    @sneakdefreak said in NRL 2018:

    Cam Smith retires from rep footy. Queensland's era is probably over now their big three are gone (Cam, Thurston, Cronk).

    Maybe NSW might be in with a shout now

    SneakdefreakS 1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • SneakdefreakS Offline
    SneakdefreakS Offline
    Sneakdefreak
    replied to canefan on last edited by
    #455

    @canefan Jake Friend, Jake Granville or Andrew McCullough are seen as his replacements. Also means Queensland don't have a goal kicker right now in their squad (at least not Smith or Thurston).

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • mariner4lifeM Offline
    mariner4lifeM Offline
    mariner4life
    wrote on last edited by
    #456

    That's huge news for origin. I bet Freddie Fittler had a seriously large number of celebratory stubbies last night, while Daley and the other failed coaches kicked the cat.

    Cam Smith was THE MAN in that Qld comeback last year. He was terrible in Game 1, slow to cover ground; no run; failed to get the pack moving.

    Qld dropped some established players, brought in younger legs up front, which helped enormously, but it was a suddenly revitalised Smith that drove everything. He ran more than he had in years, and looked like a player 10 years younger. His organisation (of the game, and the refs); his direction; his kicking game from dummy half, none of these things can be replaced by Qld (or any team he's played for). Simply the greatest hooker of all time, and his loss should be the end of the Qld dominance of this series. They could have covered Cronk, but not Smith as well.

    Should be a fun Origin, two young teams going at each other.

    1 Reply Last reply
    3
  • SneakdefreakS Offline
    SneakdefreakS Offline
    Sneakdefreak
    wrote on last edited by Sneakdefreak
    #457

    Warriors play some Friday night football against Parramatta and it will be without Roger Tuivasa-Sheck who is expecting his first child this week. Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad keeps the double-barrelled name strong at fullback although he could be replaced by Peta Hiku with Gerard Beale moving into centre.

    VODAFONE WARRIORS

    24 CHARNZE NICOLL-KLOKSTAD
    2 DAVID FUSITU’A
    3 PETA HIKU
    4 SOLOMONE KATA
    5 KEN MAUMALO
    6 BLAKE GREEN (c)
    7 MASON LINO
    8 BUNTY AFOA
    9 ISSAC LUKE
    10 AGNATIUS PAASI
    11 ISAIAH PAPALI’I
    12 TOHU HARRIS
    13 ADAM BLAIR
    Interchange:
    14 JAZZ TEVAGA
    15 CHRIS SATAE
    16 JAMES GAVET
    17 SIMON MANNERING
    18 GERARD BEALE
    20 KARL LAWTON
    21 ALBERT VETE
    22 ANTHONY GELLING

    May 14, 2018  /  Team Lists

    Round 11 NRL team lists

    Round 11 NRL team lists

    The official team lists for the 11th round of the 2018 NRL Telstra Premiership season.

    canefanC 1 Reply Last reply
    0

NRL 2018
Sports Talk
leaguewarriors
  • Login

  • Don't have an account? Register

  • Login or register to search.
  • First post
    Last post
0
  • Categories
  • Login

  • Don't have an account? Register

  • Login or register to search.