NRL 2021
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@mackerzzzz for me this is a weak team. You can't count new buy ins. They just got here and it takes time to develop chemistry.
Of what we currently have Harris and Roger are the established players any other team would take and start immediately. Walsh as good as he has been is still a "jury is out" buy. A full season under his belt will determine if he's really any good or not.
After that I'm not sure who's actually any good. We are littered with players no one else wants.
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@nepia I highly rate Harris. He's one of the best forwards going. His work rate does not change from game to game. He'd certainly make the Qld side right now. Perhaps I'm lumping his rating in with the rest of the shit show we currently have.
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I've said so before, if you've been here long enough. But when I was playing league and rugby at the same time I played for one league club and a couple different rugby clubs. The off field interactions were similar at the union club rooms but at the league club it was fucking diabolical. I know this to be true of a few other league clubs in wellies too.
League is the chosen sport of gangs. Not saying gang members don't play union too. It's just there's a high % of "the element". That's brought about by a long history RL being the unwanted code in NZ. Outcasts gravitated to it. Imo that shit is deep seated and its hard to get the right administration/owners behind the warriors because of that stigma. If the people running the club are wrong form the start then nothing is going to change.
Of all the rugby union players we have at our disposal, selection wise. We only sign a handful. And usually their not top prospects. That means there's not enough being done at the age grade level to cultivate a pathway. We have thousands of boys playing rugby and only a few of them get super contracts and further honours. Yet so few of the rest of the players see league as a viable option. We shouldn't need Aussie players. We have enough potential quality here. But again league at club and high school is such a basket case that identifying players, the same way Australia does, is impossible. So to that point, I guess the warriors can be partially forgiven. For not getting the young players like the Barrett's, Mo'unga's or Ardie Savea's coming though. But it's a double edged sword. With the right administration the warriors could be more active and aggressively targeting players.
We don't need token gestures either. Using someone like Graeme Henry in an advisory role isn't what they need. Honestly they should hit up someone like Steve Tew or someone of that ilk. Someone who has experience overseeing grassroots to top tier. I don't believe culture can be fixed by hiring the right coach. Not at the warriors.
Something that is not really in the hands of the warriors and most of you are aware of is that union within the Polynesian community, in NZ, is king. Poly dad's will always push their boys to play union. I think this will always be a hurdle the Warriors will struggle with. It's funny living in Australia and it's been flipped on its head here.
Anyway rant over.
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@raznomore said in NRL 2021:
So to that point, I guess the warriors can be partially forgiven. For not getting the young players like the Barrett's, Mo'unga's or Ardie Savea's coming though.
The Warriors shouldn't be chasing after these guys, they should be getting all the good young guys who become top pros who chose Aussie clubs - like Tohu and RTS first time round, and the Bromwichs, the SBWs etc. Then there's the guys the Warriors do identify and yet they stagnate in the system before becoming stars in other clubs.
And before anyone jumps down my throat, not saying we should be aiming to get them all, that clearly wont happen, but, we should be getting more than we currently do.
The talent is there without raiding straight up rugby players, the Warriors more often than not don't get that talent.
One of the issues often mentioned is that kids who stay in NZ don't build the professionalism/work ethic etc that they get in Oz. A way to solve that which die hard leaguies will hate is encourage good league players to attend good rugby schools and play 1st XV. Of course you keep them in the loop with league camps etc and there's always a risk one or two will get lost to rugby, buy if you want that layer of work ethic, training etc then the top 1st XV comps are where it's at in NZ.
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@nepia I was more alluding to the profile of league in NZ. Rugby kids, and of course this is nothing new, do not see rugby league in the same way they see union. The warriors need to work harder to change that perception. But mostly NZRL need to help clubs build numbers and prestige. Make the sport desirable for the parents to send their kids to.
How in the fuck you did that is beyond me. I only know what's needed. Not how to get it done.
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What a game so far Broncos vs Sharks
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@mackerzzzz said in NRL 2021:
What a game! Great result from Broncos. Let's hope it can continue.
Staggs looks clutch
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@mackerzzzz Probably the game of the round.
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Taken me all weekend to remove from my mind that effort from the warriors on Friday, possibly some of the worst league of all time by both teams in the final 20 minutes, which came down to who wanted to lose it the most. Didnt help that they lost their forward leader in Tohu early but some of the defence outwide was absolutley woeful to the point of should there be an investigation into betting aginst your own team. Unlikely to have Tohu, Kotoa, Townsend or maybe even Walsh this week. Means work experience kid gets another run by default which shouldnt happen. Work experience kid will also get his bro in law on the field no doubt, but I doubt that helps his game. Townsend actually wasnt that bad for most of the game, until the last twenty, where in that time even RTS went from hero to zero. The infectious nature of the fear of losing just took over and everyone went bad, what appalled me most, was that even our senior leaders (who were still on the field), also succumbed...
..at least our guys didnt attend Paul Vaughans party
Broncos V Sharks game was close to/if not the game of the round, what a difference some players make to some teams. How terrible were Manly before Turbo came back, Newcastle without Ponga and likewise Broncos without Staggs.
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@bayimports excuse my ignorance, but who is the work experience kid and who is his brother in law?
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@gunner work experience kid is Sean O'Sullivan who is the son of the warriors recruitment manager Peter O'Sullivan...Matt Lodge is Peter O'Sullivans Daughters husband
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Big suspensions and fines just handed down to Dragons players
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Paul Vaughn suspended for 8 weeks and fined $50K
12 other players fined a total of $305K and suspensions of week. Those suspensions can occur over the next 4 weeks given they will struggle to put a side out!
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It follows neighbours claiming that shortly after police entered the Vaughans home, a number of men and women could be seen “scampering” out a side door and “running” off down the street.
And the stuff surfacing about Jack de Belin apparently hiding under the bed when the cops came, you couldn’t make it up.
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@act-crusader said in NRL 2021:
It follows neighbours claiming that shortly after police entered the Vaughans home, a number of men and women could be seen “scampering” out a side door and “running” off down the street.
And the stuff surfacing about Jack de Belin apparently hiding under the bed when the cops came, you couldn’t make it up.
The last two league articles I have seen are this and a former warrior doing a Hopoate (sp?), that article mentions another such one last year - what is wrong with these fuck?
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@raznomore said in NRL 2021:
Vaughan contract torn up. He'll be in the warriors in 8 weeks...
lol.. is he also a member of the O'Sullivan family?
what a bunch of muppets
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@raznomore said in NRL 2021:
Jesus, someone call Mensa. We have a fucking genius on our hands.
Jai Arrow you dumbest if dumb c@nts.
seriously this guy is that dumb.. this is what it also cost him...
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@raznomore said in NRL 2021:
Jesus, someone call Mensa. We have a fucking genius on our hands.
Jai Arrow you dumbest if dumb c@nts.
What did he do and has it been announced he's signed with the Warriors yet or are they waiting for the drama to die down a bit?
