The NRL Season of 2016
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<span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Yep, and who do you blame for that? </span></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Donsteppa" data-cid="576157" data-time="1462090201"><p>The same players who have been inconsistent across several coach changes?</p></blockquote>
So we've nailed it down to a handful of players that are the cause of all the Warriors ills, regardless of management or coaching? -
Look I'm not trying to absolve the players of responsibility, they're professionals that are not fulfilling their contractual obligations to the club. They deserved to be dropped, without a doubt, and this sort of behaviour should absolutely impact their value on the market.<br><br>
But dropping a bunch of players when you are 3-16 to "send a message" just screams reactionary abulance at the bottom of the cliff type measures. If you create a culture within the organisation where that sort of shit is not tolerated then by in large you won't get these types of issues in the first place. There are many different ways of acheiving this - the ABs did it through putting the responsibility back on the players through leadership groups etc.<br><br>
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<p>Kiwis named, Jesse Bromwich will captain:</p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">NEW ZEALAND KIWIS</span><br><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Adam Blair</span><br><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Jesse Bromwich</span><br><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Lewis Brown</span><br><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Greg Eastwood</span><br><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Alex Glenn<br>
Tohu Harris<br>
Peta Hiku<br>
Shaun Johnson<br>
Jordan Kahu<br>
Shaun Kenny-Dowall<br>
Manu Ma'u<br>
Sam Moa<br>
Jason Nightingale<br>
Kodi Nikorima<br>
Kevin Proctor<br>
Jason Taumalolo<br>
Martin Taupau<br>
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak<br>
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<p>The culture of the organization that has tolerated mediocrity and less. </p>
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<p>Not me, though - because I gave up on them as a bunch of slack-arses years ago and am just briefly wasting a small piece of my life to unrepentantly put the boot in.</p>
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<p>This game will be another in a long list of false dawns in which the Warriors will linger around the lower reaches of mid-table - briefly claw their way into the eight when other clubs are more severely affected by SoO commitments and then fade in the late season.</p>
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<p>So from what I can put together Kearney is going with this:</p>
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<p>1.Hiku 2.DWZ 3.SKD 4.Kahu 5.Nightingale 6.Harris 7.SJ 8.Bromwich (c) 9.Nikorima 10.Blair 11.Proctor 12.Ma'u 13.Taumalolo</p>
<p>Bench: 14.Brown 15.Taupau 16.Moa 17.Eastwood 18th man: Glenn 19th man: Levi</p>
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<p>Hmmm, so last year's "forced into experimentation" bullshit is actually just how Kearney is running the team now? Tohu Harris at stand off, WTF!!!! (Assuming it happens, but who else is in there? Oh wait, Peta Hiku Kearney Jnr can play there too, by play I mean run around the park in a Jono Wright style). Rapana must have taken a shit in someone's cornflakes. At least the pack is good, but it was good last year when those slow poke Englishmen touched us up.</p>
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<p>Donsteppa: The organisation that is the Warriors is fucked, the management of that club is fucked. Two of the naughty boys that are being held up as the reason the club is in bad shape are two players who have slugged it out for the Warriors (and the Kiwis) for a number of years now, now they've been turned on like they molest children. Matulino must look at Jesse Bromwich at the with envy getting to play for the Storm while he's remained at the Mickey Mouse Warriors. Also, I think some in this thread have mentioned Mannering as the gold standard of Warriors effort when he's had his shit periods too.</p>
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<p>Cappy can't coach, he's been given more rope than Bluey and Bluey actually had teams that won shit before he got to the Warriors (at a bunch of levels) - and as Sneak will remind you Bluey lost the dressing room and had no game plan yet Cappy would be lucky to find the stand that the dressing room is under with signs pointing him in that direction. </p>
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<p>Doyle was hailed as the Messiah, but rather than turning water into wine he's turning water into cat piss.</p>
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<p>Between Kearney and the Warriors it's bloody difficult being a NZ league fan. I'm looking back fondly to early 2011 when my blood pressure only had to deal with Hammettuer and the Canes, it was like the Phony War of 1939 in comparison ;).</p> -
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1.Hiku 2.DWZ 3.SKD 4.Kahu 5.Nightingale 6.Harris 7.SJ 8.Bromwich (c) 9.Nikorima 10.Blair 11.Proctor 12.Ma'u 13.Taumalolo<br>
Bench: 14.Brown 15.Taupau 16.Moa 17.Eastwood 18th man: Glenn 19th man: Levi<br><br>
Big call leaving out Luke and another utility back like Hoffman or Rapana (both have experience at stand off/fullback).</p></blockquote>
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I don't mind the squad. Shame Matulino isn't there. Didn't Luke come out and basically admit he wouldn't make it because his form was poor?<br><br>
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<p>RTS injury, Foran with his issues , and Luke turning to shit , have hurt us big time , </p>
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<p>Throw those three in and it's Kiwis 30 - Aus 6.</p>
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<p>Haven't seen much of his game tbh. I thought Rapana should have snuck in there but prove me wrong DWZ, prove me wrong.</p> -
Yes , we have the potential to field the best kiwi team ever , but for various reasons we never get them all on the field at the same time.
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Yeah...<br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="http://nzh.tw/11632160">http://nzh.tw/11632160</a>
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I was waiting for them to slap an extra week on Blair!
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<p>Undecided if <span>Doyle has had enough time to really start sorting shit out. But I like the hard line approach taken with the 6, and hearing they were doing that energy drink-meds mix reinforces that feeling. </span></p>
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<p><span>Is the culture that average that top notch guys (imo) like Manu and Ben, who are experienced pro athletes, make dumb decisions like this? Or is this just a case of a bunch of guys being collective num-nuts?? Cappy and Doyle were adamant that all the players bought into the team and club rules, maybe that changed?</span></p>
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<p><span>Whatever the reason something needs to give - saw some hungry new players in that win against the Dragons. You might be a flash guy, or a veteran player, but someone needs to make these guys work for their jersey and actually start giving a shit.</span></p>
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<p><span>won't be holding my breath!</span></p>
