The NRL Season of 2016

Sneakdefreak

It traditionally is the other way round....time to accept this is yet another mediocre season by the Warriors. McFadden will be gone, that is now a lock, and so will the rest of the coaching staff. Veteran players need to be reviewed and maybe traded out too. Not asking for a full blow up on the squad, just a partial blow up and hiring of a real NRL coach.
 
0-20 to Ricky's Raiders..... FML.
 
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Donsteppa

Half agreed. Go for a full blow up of the squad too. Start again, rather than land a "real" NRL coach with the same old 'stars'.

canefan

Cap missed his chance, when he replaced the rule breakers with the reserves and won he should have let them play the following week. No one would have criticised him for it

Sneakdefreak

This is pretty much what I thought after tonight's shit loss to Ricky's Raiders:

mariner4life

Burn it down. Start again

Nepia

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It traditionally is the other way round....time to accept this is yet another mediocre season by the Warriors. McFadden will be gone, that is now a lock, and so will the rest of the coaching staff. Veteran players need to be reviewed and maybe traded out too. Not asking for a full blow up on the squad, just a partial blow up and hiring of a real NRL coach.
 
0-20 to Ricky's Raiders..... FML.
 
 
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That time was at least a month ago Sneak although I do admire your steadfast optimism in the Warriors.
 
I actively hope good young and old Kiwi players go to other clubs than the Warriors.

Sneakdefreak

Now Cappy is planning to drop Ben Matulino, Shaun Johnson, Blake Asyhford (but still no Konrad), and Jacob Lillyman for the next game against the Broncos at Mt Smart. This is turning into a Bluey moment.

Donsteppa

At this rate Henry might find himself CEO and Head Coach by the end of the season...

Mokey

Was flicking between the Chiefs game and the Warriors. When I saw the 20-0 scoreline I just thought FFS. At least when they scored that try it wasn't a zip annihilation, but they are a fucking sick team. Is it players? Is it McFadden? Both?
 
Maybe they need to can the senior team and just put out the reserves every week. Couldn't do much worse.

Godder

There are basically 3 areas of staff in a pro sports club - players, coaches and admin. 
We've tried replacing coaches, and it didn't work. We've replaced the CEO with one of the top talents available in the NRL in Doyle, and it's not working either. Time to seriously look at the player roster, because changing the other two hasn't helped. 
Someone on talkback made the point that the U20s are NZers only, which means they don't get experience of working with Aussies, so are unprepared at top level. Also said that they select and coach based on being bigger, stronger, faster, which also makes them struggle in first grade as that doesn't hold any more.

taniwharugby

bloody Titans ruined leg 8 of a 9 leg multi for me on the weekend, with leg 9 being good too :ireful:

Nepia

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There are basically 3 areas of staff in a pro sports club - players, coaches and admin. 
We've tried replacing coaches, and it didn't work. We've replaced the CEO with one of the top talents available in the NRL in Doyle, and it's not working either. Time to seriously look at the player roster, because changing the other two hasn't helped. 
Someone on talkback made the point that the U20s are NZers only, which means they don't get experience of working with Aussies, so are unprepared at top level. Also said that they select and coach based on being bigger, stronger, faster, which also makes them struggle in first grade as that doesn't hold any more.
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That happened last year - we got a spine remember? One is the same as he always is, one has been reduced to a plodder and the other one forgot how to tackle. They've been Warriorized. 
 
I think the second point is a red hearing at best and bollocks at worst. We dominate rugby at all levels without the experience of working with Aussies. I've watched some schoolboy league games over here in Sydney and the Poly kids dominate through share size just like they do in NZ.

Rembrandt

Well I went to this game in New Plymouth. Not much of a league fan but figured I'd never been to a game so for $20 it would be well worth it. Significantly less crowd dickheads at this fixture than at the Chiefs vs Sharks game which I have to say was pretty surprising considering the dross the Warriors served up. The seemed really in the game for the first 20 mins or so but then the wind picked up and it started raining and that was the end of that. I had a glimmer of hope that in the 2nd half they might come out strong with the wind behind them..but the wind died down and rain appeared to stop right after the break so that didn't eventuate. Ended up leaving 10 minutes early so we could get home be warm and watch some of the Parker undercard fights. Quite a few left with us. Crowd wasn't as angry as I thought, more just completely over it. Not good signs for the club.

antipodean

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Godder" data-cid="581712" data-time="1463943950">Someone on talkback made the point that the U20s are NZers only, which means they don't get experience of working with Aussies, so are unprepared at top level. Also said that they select and coach based on being bigger, stronger, faster, which also makes them struggle in first grade as that doesn't hold any more.</blockquote> I don't think the professionalism in sport administration or coaching, particularly rugby (union or league) is significantly worse in New Zealand than Australia. In fact in a number of examples you could make the case it's measurably better. Given league selects on athletic ability these days, opting for the 'bigger, stronger, faster' makes sense. But your point about the playing list itself I think goes to the heart of why the Warriors always underperform. It must be the culture.

Sneakdefreak

Manu Vatuvei on the way out....
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/league/80298465/manu-vatuvei-and-the-warriors-are-set-to-part-ways '>http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/league/80298465/manu-vatuvei-and-the-warriors-are-set-to-part-ways </a>
 
Makes sense to me since David Fusitua (and to a lesser extent Ken Maumalo) is the better option going forward.

Rembrandt

Sad way to end his warriors career

Hooroo

Gutted. Never got into the Wariors but I did like that guy. Always seemed so professional when others looked less so

kiwiinmelb

Prob end up in England ? 
Can't imagine a Aus based club wanting to spend too much on him at this stage of his career

taniwharugby

was only a couple of seasons ago he was being talked about as a 1 club player wasn't he?
 
Surely this points to there being a bit more to this whole energy drink and sick leave saga than we will know?

SammyC

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Gutted. Never got into the Wariors but I did like that guy. Always seemed so professional when others looked less so
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not very professional for a senior player to be out with a bunch of youngsters taking pills etc.
 
good riddance in my opinion, there's been a rotten core at the warriors for years and Manu is a big part of that.

The Silver Fern

The NRL Season of 2016