The NRL Season of 2016

No Quarter

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. 
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. 
Just blaming a handful of players for all of the problems is ignoring the underlying issues, IMO of course.

Sneakdefreak

Kiwis named, Jesse Bromwich will captain:
 
NEW ZEALAND KIWIS Adam Blair Jesse Bromwich Lewis Brown Greg Eastwood Alex Glenn 
Tohu Harris 
Peta Hiku 
Shaun Johnson 
Jordan Kahu 
Shaun Kenny-Dowall 
Manu Ma'u 
Sam Moa 
Jason Nightingale 
Kodi Nikorima 
Kevin Proctor 
Jason Taumalolo 
Martin Taupau 
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak 
Danny Levi (19th man)

Chris B.

The culture of the organization that has tolerated mediocrity and less. 
 
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.
 
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.
 
TAB bankers.

Sneakdefreak

So from what I can put together Kearney is going with this:
 
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
Bench: 14.Brown 15.Taupau 16.Moa 17.Eastwood 18th man: Glenn 19th man: Levi
 
Big call leaving out Luke and another utility back like Hoffman or Rapana (both have experience at stand off/fullback).

Donsteppa

To "just [blame] a handful of players", or just one (more) coach. Hmmm.... 
Bring back John Hart...??

Nepia

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.
 
 
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.
 
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. 
 
Doyle was hailed as the Messiah, but rather than turning water into wine he's turning water into cat piss.
 
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 ;).

ACT Crusader

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Sneakdefreak" data-cid="576170" data-time="1462092234">So from what I can put together Kearney is going with this: 
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 
Bench: 14.Brown 15.Taupau 16.Moa 17.Eastwood 18th man: Glenn 19th man: Levi 
Big call leaving out Luke and another utility back like Hoffman or Rapana (both have experience at stand off/fullback).</blockquote>
 
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? 
Happy to see Dallin in there. He's been on the cusp for a while now.

booboo

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Yep, and who do you blame for that?
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Personally I blame Deans

kiwiinmelb

RTS injury, Foran with his issues , and Luke turning to shit , have hurt us big time , 
 
Throw those 3 back in , in top form, and its a toss a coin game.

Milk

On the bright side, if/when we lose, Aus will be inspired to drag their aging stars through to one more World Cup.

Sneakdefreak

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Throw those 3 back in , in top form, and its a toss a coin game. 
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Throw those three in and it's Kiwis 30 - Aus 6.
 
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Happy to see Dallin in there. He's been on the cusp for a while now. </blockquote>
 
Haven't seen much of his game tbh. I thought Rapana should have snuck in there but prove me wrong DWZ, prove me wrong.

kiwiinmelb

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.

Virgil

Yeah... <a class="bbc_url" href="http://nzh.tw/11632160">http://nzh.tw/11632160</a>

Siam

Well at least we saved the NRL judiciary the job of making our best Kiwi players unavailable this year.

Crazy Horse

I was waiting for them to slap an extra week on Blair!

Donsteppa

Must still be the fault of the coach.......

Paekakboyz

Undecided if 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. 
 
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?
 
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.
 
won't be holding my breath!

Nepia

Starting team named:
 
1 Jordan Kahu 2 Jason Nightingale 3 Shaun Kenny-Dowall 4 Gerard Beale 5 Dallin Watene-Zelezniak 6 Tohu Harris 7 Shaun Johnson 8 Jesse Bromwich 9 Lewis Brown 10 Adam Blair 11 Kevin Proctor 12 Manu Ma'u 13 Jason Taumalolo
 
Interchange 
14 Kodi Nikorima 
15 Greg Eastwood 
16 Martin Taupau 
17 Sam Moa 
18 Brad Takairangi 
20 Kenny Bromwich
Yep, Tohu Harris at 6 - good that we threw a series in England to build for the future in the halves .... I haven't been watching enough of the Eels to know if Ma'u deserves his place?
Still, that pack looks good enough to keep us in the game.

kiwiinmelb

With Harris at 6 to go with the rest of the pack , that gives us a physical edge . 
We play this smart we could still trouble them with a typical kiwi gameplan of hard running and offloading in the tackle

Hooroo

12 point deduction for the Eels fair?

The Silver Fern

The NRL Season of 2016