NRL 2023 + Internationals
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@mariner4life TMM not due back until round 15-16 unfortunately.
Rumour has it Metcalf could be finally good to go this week but I would surprised if he gets thrown straight into first grade, nothing like a cold Friday night to test a hammy though lol.
Volkman carving in reggies and part of the reason the warriors are second there, but plays same side of field as SJ, Webster obviously not sold on what he has seen yet as cover and I guess he is probably more worried about carrying two not so great tackling halves.
Im expecting to see Walker named again at 6, but hoping for something different
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Volkman gets his chance at 6, Walker back on rotation.
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I just had to Google ‘what is a hip drop tackle?’
I had no idea. I thought I’d pick up what it was by watching a few games, but no.
How/why has this become a thing?
Why the crackdown on this and not high tackles?And a big middle finger to the NRL and their refs who think old mate at Vodafone is a villain for simply speaking the truth.
How about look in the mirror, fluffybunnies.
Full credit to Andrew Webster for sticking to his guns and refusing to blame anyone but themselves for their losses, he’s clearly focused on changing the culture at the Warriors. It’s what that place needed.
You stick to that Andrew and us couch experts will worry about bagging out the NRL and their biased fluffybunny refs.
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@Gunner genuine hip drops are pretty bad tackles that lead to injury (Pat Carrigan pulled off a bad one last year)
The NRL wanted to stamp them out. And so we get the current "reds under the bed" frenzy where everything is a hipdrop. And because getting a penalty is huge in the NRL, and getting an opposition player binned can go a long way to winning a game, players are staying down all the time now to try and get the bunker to rule on it.
The NRL think they are being clear on what is, and is not a hop drop. Instances in game say the refs and the bunker don't fucking know themselves.
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Warriors get the win, 24-12 over the Bulldogs.
The refereeing of the contest for the ball in the air is like chalk and cheese between league and rugby.
DWZ was jumping to take a catch, Bulldogs player comes in underneath him and takes him out and it’s play on.
While he didn’t land badly, it’s a definite penalty and probably yellow card in rugby.
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Warriors get the win, 24-12 over the Bulldogs.
The refereeing of the contest for the ball in the air is like chalk and cheese between league and rugby.
DWZ was jumping to take a catch, Bulldogs player comes in underneath him and takes him out and it’s play on.
While he didn’t land badly, it’s a definite penalty and probably yellow card in rugby.
The One dude's comments came to fruition - reckon the Warriors were on the right side of the 50/50s this week.
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@Nepia yep a couple went our way..
probably our best first half all year..second half we had no where near the same intensity but still stayed on the game.
thought young Volkman played ok too, really muscled up in defence too
now the bye, then a depleted Broncos in Napier..surely we can take that..lol...surely?
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I watched the last 20 mins and it wasn't a great spectacle.
I see that Walters isn't happy with the ref from their game last night vs the Storm. The same ref who did the Warriors-Panthers game. Is he also on work experience?
One of the storm players came in as the third tackler and hit broncos player in the ribs. Andrew Johns alluded to similar incident the week before when one of our boys got sin binned
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@canefan It was the sin bin of Carrigan that Walters was most pissed off about. Bellamy agreed it should not have been a sin bin.
Did the ref consult the bunker?
No idea as I didn't watch the game. My comments were based on a Newshub sports story on the news last night.
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@canefan It was the sin bin of Carrigan that Walters was most pissed off about. Bellamy agreed it should not have been a sin bin.
Did the ref consult the bunker?
No idea as I didn't watch the game. My comments were based on a Newshub sports story on the news last night.
I can accept refs get calls wrong. What was pleasing last night was the bunker corrected the ref's obviously incorrect calls in the Warriors game. As they should
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@canefan It was the sin bin of Carrigan that Walters was most pissed off about. Bellamy agreed it should not have been a sin bin.
Did the ref consult the bunker?
Of course and the bunker said hip drop and sin bin. Review after the game let Carrigan off, but it doesn't change that they were down a player in the game.
Having said that a Reece Walsh shoulder charge which not only wasn't penalised but no sin bin and it was in act of scoring a try, should have been penalty try. Some people think it was similar to Slater in 2018, but we don't play under 2018 interpretations and everything this year points to that being a shoulder charge. Bunker involved here too.
Again review after game has it as a shoulder charge and Walsh fined.
Bunker made some absolute shockers, not helped by the ginger work experience kid, but it does show its not just the wahs this happens too...
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@bayimports said in NRL 2023:
@canefan It was the sin bin of Carrigan that Walters was most pissed off about. Bellamy agreed it should not have been a sin bin.
Did the ref consult the bunker?
Of course and the bunker said hip drop and sin bin. Review after the game let Carrigan off, but it doesn't change that they were down a player in the game.
Having said that a Reece Walsh shoulder charge which not only wasn't penalised but no sin bin and it was in act of scoring a try, should have been penalty try. Some people think it was similar to Slater in 2018, but we don't play under 2018 interpretations and everything this year points to that being a shoulder charge. Bunker involved here too.
Again review after game has it as a shoulder charge and Walsh fined.
Bunker made some absolute shockers, not helped by the ginger work experience kid, but it does show its not just the wahs this happens too...
At least it wasn't all one way I guess, so they weren't victims of Warriors level "unconscious bias." But it is exasperating that someone can look at multiple replays from multiple angles and still not come up with the most reasonable decision
