NRL 2018
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That was better.
It’s taken us 15 minutes to work out a game is on
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Looked very good coming out of our own end in the latter part of the half. Putting real pressure on them at the ruck and drawing some penalties.
Haven’t watched a heap of the Knights this year but Pongia has really improved and looks like a young Lockyer. No doubt will move to the halves as his career evolves.
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To me our improvement this year is based on two things.
Our back 5 getting our sets off to big starts
Our forwards finding their belly rather than their back
Everything else is feeding off those two things.
Buying Green is also looking like huge business
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Arghhhhhh.
Loving our short line dropouts.
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If we weren’t winning, I’d say the stitch up was on for that last penalty call.
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Fuck off ref thats 1 bullshit penalty followed up by one that was, but ignores the knights doing constantly to slow down breaks
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This needs another warriors try to get a scoreline that reflects the game
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RTS on fire with the step
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Don't hate this call, but for and against is going to count
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@mariner4life said in NRL 2018:
This needs another warriors try to get a scoreline that reflects the game
And to get us on the plus in for/against. We were -14 heading into this game.
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@act-crusader said in NRL 2018:
@mariner4life said in NRL 2018:
This needs another warriors try to get a scoreline that reflects the game
And to get us on the plus in for/against. We were -14 heading into this game.
-18 i thought
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Very good win, especially at home where we have been pretty dire this year.
Defence excellent although Knights attack looked amateurish for the most part.
Our front row and back 5 were massive and got us huge metres up the middle.
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cliche and superlative alert. Turn the channel fullas.
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@act-crusader said in NRL 2018:
cliche and superlative alert. Turn the channel fullas.
The sucking off of this game started in the Warriors game
This better live up to the hype.
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Start all Bunnies, but couldn't work out that just giving it to a Burgess isn't a game plan.
So Roosters score first. This kid Radley is a gun
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Roosters win. Superb definsively, shut down the souths attack completely. The bunnies attack ended up being 4 burgess hit ups per set
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New Warriors coaching tactic: If we dress them like the Melbourne Storm, they will be the Melbourne Storm.
The running, man: Newcastle were run off the park tonight. The Warriors ran for over 2000 metres with Roger Tuivasa-Sheck alone running for 338 metres! If the NRL website wasn't so shit I would be able to know who the other Warriors were who cracked the 100m mark.
The magical 28: The points total considered "enough" to make the NRL playoffs is 28 and the Warriors have now reached that number with this win. More important is that the Broncos lost to the Cowboys, leaving them on 26 points and vulnerable to the last remaining playoff contender Wests Tigers (who have their own problems with the coach being linked to a return to Penrith).
The real MVP: It's Roger Tuivasa-Sheck but I want to point out a guy who was everywhere tonight - Jazz Tevaga. He made 40 tackles, many stopping frontrowers, made a number of darting runs through the middle of the field and made the offload which set up the Blake Green try to close the game. It was good to read that Jazz wants to play lock and doesn't see himself playing hooker. Can see him being our new Michael Luck (who can also run the ball and offload it too).
What about the other guys?: Newcastle is on the up with their recent additions but Kalyn Ponga alone will get them far. Didn't get many opportunities tonight but he's got the speed, skill and vision to easily replace Billy Slater in the Queensland side. Kiwis prop Herman Ese'ese is going to develop into a star forward for the Knights and was their best player against the Warriors.
Luke gets 250: It was game 250 for Isaac Luke and he was in fine form again. Stuck around after the game and watched his old Taranaki club do another haka for him which was a lot more special this time (last time was at Yarrow Stadium after the Warriors were smashed).
