NRL 2023 + Internationals

Nepia

@taniwharugby said in NRL 2023:

@Nepia my brother has had season tickets for years and years...he also went to Aus to watch them last week, not sure he'll be going next week...

Oh the poor bastard, I only had to take a train trip to watch that abomination.

I'm weighing up whether to go to Brisbane or to just wait and try snap up a GF ticket once we win.

Paekakboyz

How good was that!!

canefan

Was at the game,

Oh what a night, watching the warriors on a Saturday night, knights just lost because they're fooken shite

Seriously though, I was very nervous about the Knights especially as they were on a massive streak. Amazing start but we went flat in the final 15 of the first half and made basic mistakes. I was very worried when they scored early in the half, but that seemed to fire the boys up. What a sight seeing SJ soak up the crowd love a few minutes from the end, as did Tohu and Webster. What an epic game

mariner4life

How. Fucking. Good!!!

Awesome start. Then under the pump. And yet we blow them out? Who even is this team?

Love them. Looking in to Brisbane tickets as we speak

Crazy Horse

@canefan said in NRL 2023:

Was at the game,

Oh what a night,

Who else started singing the song in their heads?

bayimports

@Stag said in NRL 2023:

With a performance like this in the biggest game of the year why the hell are they letting Sirinon go???

interesting one this, really versatile squad player and can fill in multiple roles, but master of none probably cost him.

bayimports

Great listening to SJ post match too, very relaxed and the calf isn't bad at all which is a good sign for next week

mariner4life

@bayimports said in NRL 2023:

@Stag said in NRL 2023:

With a performance like this in the biggest game of the year why the hell are they letting Sirinon go???

interesting one this, really versatile squad player and can fill in multiple roles, but master of none probably cost him.

And yet we keep Jazz fucking Tevaga

booboo

Funny. In town today and young fulla in fruit and vege shop in Broncos gear gives it the obligatory "any plans for the afternoon"?

"Nothing much, might watch some footy later?"

"Oh, what footy?"

"Ah, Warriors"

"Oh yeah, up the Wahs"

BTW I have not expressed how much I hate that saying ... but hard case eh?

Gunner

I did not see that result coming!
I thought it was going to go down to the wire, with both teams a chance to win.

That opening 10-12 minutes for the Warriors was some of the best footy you’ll see, just perfection!
The Knights were always going to come back at us, it was brilliant to see us soak it up, stay calm and deliver.

40-10 over a red hot Knights team on a 10 game winning streak, in a sudden death game, how good?

Myself and a handful of the lads have a piss trip fund that we’ve all been contributing to since pre covid - it hasn’t been touched yet, so it’s in a very healthy state.

After a few beers and tonights result we’re potentially heading to Brissy next weekend.
We’re just sweating on the status of one of the boy’s passports…

canefan

https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/finals-2023-warriors-captain-tohu-harris-andrew-webster-12-men-shaun-johnson-injury-update/0ec9e60f-98da-477e-9617-d58f1a5d210f

Chris B.

I watched the second half.

I gave up watching the Warriors quite a few years back, because of continual disappointment and deciding they were doing nothing positive for my life.

So, congratulations to all of you guys who have hung tough. You deserve this!!!

Well done!

mariner4life

so, first off, I've jagged a ticket to the game and I'm heading to Brisbane.

To the game, it was noticeable how much effort we were putting in to Ponga. And Newcastle actually played it well by hitting Frizzell instead of going out the back, he made huge in-roads, and then Ponga came back the other way at looked immediately dangerous. But we kept turning up on D and eventually the knights cracked. Shutting out Ponga, their centres and their wingers just frustrated Newcastle out of it.

I don't hold out much hope this week, that performance will have taken so much out of us, and Brisbane are really fucking good, well rested, and at home. But what a year, and i am heading to Suncorp full of hope.

bayimports

Brisbane are good across the park and to be fair on Newcastle they had a few key outs for that game. We will need to be full strength to compete this week.

Great game for anyone who can get to Brissy though!

mariner4life

Hey, it's prelim week, we should do some awards:

Try of the Year
I really want to give it to Hammer's in Origin 1, but it should be an NRL try. Newcastle have their own highlight reel of 90m+ efforts this year, but Dom Young's v Manly in R5 was a peach. Young beats a few, and then after a few sets of hands, gets it back to score in the corner

Hit of the Year
Viliami Kikau absolutely ironing out Phoenix Crossland. You know it's good when the guy plays the ball, then sinks to his knees holding his ribs

"What the fuck was that?" result of the year
The Wests fucking Tigers sticking 66 points past the Cowboys. I still can't really believe that happened.
Runner up for me is the Titans getting to 26-0 after half an hour against the Dolphins and then losing 28-26. Hilarious

Biggest turnaround of the year
Team
Well, compared to last year, it's us right?
But this year, on the positives, we have the knights coming from a mile back to make week 2 of the semis. In Rd 17 the only teams behind them were the Dogs, the Dragons and the Tigers. They were 3 wins back from the 8. They then peeled off 10 straight to finish 5th
On the flip side the Bunnies were at one point 1st, and missed the finals

Player
Preseason no one really wanted Shaun Johnson in the side. After Rd1 we were calling for him to be out of the team by Rd 3. He's about to win the Dally M
On the flip side Nicho Hynes won the Dally M last year, had cronulla sitting up the ladder at the Origin preiod. The Freddie stuffs him around and by the end of the year some Sharks fans were wondering if he shouldn't be playing fullback

Buy of the year
takes deep break fucking Reece Walsh. Still not a rock defensively. Still capable of a fuck up going for a big play. But he's a huge reason why Brisbane are poised to win the comp. Brisbane have nailed their recruitment two years in a row.
CNK for us has been awesome as well just quietly. And Hammer for the Titans

Bust of the Year
This has to be The Cheese doesn't it? Spent most of the year stinking it up for the Chooks, on huge money.

Coach of the Year
Well, duh. Webster obviously. Took the fucking Warriors to the top 4 using a squad not much different to last year. Managed to make us tough to beat, mentally resilient, and get a club notorious for being flighty to buy completely in to a plan
Runner up has to be kevvie. From meme coach to 80 minutes from a GF, and with a team best placed to stop the Panthers juggernaut

Player of the Year
SJ. Leading the Warriors to relevance with a smile on his face.

Disappointment of the Year
This was the Chooks until they went within 3 minutes of a prelim.
Souths completely fell in a hole. At one point they looked the best side in the comp. Then they missed teh 8
Many picked the Cowboys to be top 4. They spent most of the year sucking, got flogged by the Tigers, went on a run to actually get themselves fifth before meekly folding in to early Mad Monday
But the Dogs got themselves the in-demand coach. They continued their big-money signing spree. They finished 3rd last, with the worst F/A in the comp, and big stories about how players hate training. Maybe they are only a couple more big money Panthers players from cracking it?

Biggest Fuckwit
Jerome Luia loves acting like an absolute flog. His ego far outweighs his importance to Penrith.
But Sticky wins this for what feels like the 15th year in a row. Weak gutted dog person will live long in NRL lexicon now. Telling a camera guy to fuck off. Blaming the refs for every single loss. Just a complete dick, and i think is actively holding the Raiders back. But he's teflon in the media.