Been waiting for this write up Sneak, and it’s as thorough as ever. I was beginning to wonder if even you had given up on these buggers though....
I’ve learnt not to expect anything from this mob, anything more is a nice bonus.
I had forgotten about the swag of Kiwis they’ve hired though, let’s hope they all have had a rather large bee stuck in their undies all summer.
Cracker write up Sneak. Top class as always. Funnily enough even though you are calling a spade a spade (correctly I might add), there is genuine potential in the squad. Agree that depth and talent at prop and standoff are a bit dicey. But if things click..us warriors fans love the word 'if'!!! 
... I reckon we are starting out mid-table with the potential to press for the business end of the season.
I've liked what I've seen of Matiu Love-Henry, and am excited to see what Tohu can offer. I'm not fussed about Blair but have consoled myself with the fact he trains well and is clearly fit a/f. Still have doubts about him blowing hot and cold on the field though.
Do you reckon Tohu has any chance at standoff? Genuine question ha ha I just keeping about players who can assert themselves to give SJ something to work off. If we can get our halves actually driving our pack around with some purpose we are a chance. Fuck... there's that word 'if' again!
Oooooh no. No chance. Not reading. Not thinking. No.
One question, whose career are we ruining this year?
Why cant we be professional like Melbourne. Have you seen what they've done to Sam Kasiano?
Roosters to win the comp
I don't follow the Warriors - I hate losing too much - but, always read your excellent preview Sneak.
For several reasons it's probably the post of the year!
@mariner4life said in The 2018 NRL preview of the Warriors:
Oooooh no. No chance. Not reading. Not thinking. No.
One question, whose career are we ruining this year?
Why cant we be professional like Melbourne. Have you seen what they've done to Sam Kasiano?
Roosters to win the comp
Your question is answered in the write-up you lazy shit....
@sneakdefreak said in The 2018 NRL preview of the Warriors:
You need to realise what your club, players, coaches and management are good at and build from there. Being the Storm isn’t it. Nor the Broncos. And don’t try to be the default national team because that’s a total disaster.
This.
Forge your own path, harness your own game style, build your own culture and go for it. From memory the great run in the early 2000's was built around freestyle, offloading, slightly risky footy, with blokes like Ali Lautiti just going for it. We need more of that - felt true to the club style.
also, quality administration helps massively.
@no-quarter said in The 2018 NRL preview of the Warriors:
@mariner4life said in The 2018 NRL preview of the Warriors:
Oooooh no. No chance. Not reading. Not thinking. No.
One question, whose career are we ruining this year?
Why cant we be professional like Melbourne. Have you seen what they've done to Sam Kasiano?
Roosters to win the comp
Your question is answered in the write-up you lazy shit....
okay, fuck
good write up, full of the pessimism we should all feel. That's a desperately poor squad, and looks spoon-worthy.
Didn't know we signed Agnatious Paasi, he's a player who would have suited the early-2000s Warriors.
Picking we get Wests Tigers Adam Blair, not Melbourne/Brisbane Adam Blair. And he'll play huge, desperately poor, minutes.
And yes, it's Tohu Harris's career we are about to fuck.
Another good write up as ever Sneak. I do like the non inclusion of Kata in your best 17, sadly I don't think Kearney will feel the same way - and TBF you've replaced him with Hiku who I find meh, but better than Kata.
After swearing off the Warriors midway through this year, then having the Kiwis debacle I kind of thought I'd let league slide a bit this year, but, funnily enough the Rugby League Live game has kept me more interested than I thought. Plus, there's the odd game at local parks (i.e. not that student Olympic Stadium) that I wouldn't mind going to see.
Oh well, hope we have a Tigers 2005 or a Panthers 2003 year, where they weren't expected to win and then did it on the back of some good attacking (dare I use the dreaded word) flair.
@mariner4life said in The 2018 NRL preview of the Warriors:
@nepia you've seen who our coach is right? And where he learned his football? The two most dreary coaches in the NRL.
Attack doesn't win you NRL comps, defense and not making mistakes does.
I'm hoping, but I know it wont happen. I'm trying to stay positive man.
@nepia said in The 2018 NRL preview of the Warriors:
@mariner4life said in The 2018 NRL preview of the Warriors:
@nepia you've seen who our coach is right? And where he learned his football? The two most dreary coaches in the NRL.
Attack doesn't win you NRL comps, defense and not making mistakes does.
I'm hoping, but I know it wont happen. I'm trying to stay positive man.
don't. that's where the disappointment comes from
@nepia said in The 2018 NRL preview of the Warriors:
After swearing off the Warriors midway through this year,
Soothsayer???
Best save of the NRL season already:
Nah that was a stink write up Sneak 
Despite the negativity (and I counto my own in that), I do like a couple of moves they’ve made this offseason.
Still concerned about SJ though.
"Wayne Smith has taken up a temporary non-paying role "
One would hope it's non-playing. He's older than me!
Warriors win the trial match against Melbourne 20-14. Only thing to really take away is that Solomone Kata hasn't tried to change his game at all in the offseason.
@sneakdefreak said in The 2018 NRL preview of the Warriors:
Warriors win the trial match against Melbourne 20-14. Only thing to really take away is that Solomone Kata hasn't tried to change his game at all in the offseason.
I'm going to make a bold prediction and say we will finish outside the 8.....
@canefan said in The 2018 NRL preview of the Warriors:
@sneakdefreak said in The 2018 NRL preview of the Warriors:
Warriors win the trial match against Melbourne 20-14. Only thing to really take away is that Solomone Kata hasn't tried to change his game at all in the offseason.
I'm going to make a bold prediction and say we will finish outside the 8.....
As predictable as stating it's the fittest squad that they've ever had, etc
In a welcome change of pace, pretty much every Aussie commentator is picking us for the spoon. They have finally woken up to the fact that we are, indeed, really shit, not some dark horse waiting shock the comp.
Perhaps this will also be the year that they stop lazily calling the Warriors a "flair" team. We haven't been that in 10 years.
Can someone explain to me how the fuck the Roosters are under the cap?
@mariner4life said in The 2018 NRL preview of the Warriors:
Can someone explain to me how the fuck the Roosters are under the cap?
The players are all buying into success and leaving a legacy for a club they love rather than debasing themselves by trying to earn more than their limited education and modest upbringing prepared them for?
@antipodean said in The 2018 NRL preview of the Warriors:
@mariner4life said in The 2018 NRL preview of the Warriors:
Can someone explain to me how the fuck the Roosters are under the cap?
The players are all buying into success and leaving a legacy for a club they love rather than debasing themselves by trying to earn more than their limited education and modest upbringing prepared them for?
ah yes, the old "everyone is playing for unders" gambit.
Tedesco, Ferguson, Tupou, Mitchell, Keary, Cronk, Cordner, Napa, Friend, JWH all playing for unders...
@mariner4life This is proof that handing out participation awards works.
Warriors V Titans preseason game is live on the Warriors site:
Sad news about Steve Folkes
@jegga said in The 2018 NRL preview of the Warriors:
Sad news about Steve Folkes
A legend at Belmore. They'll be mourning there.
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck signs with Warriors for another four years, stopping the rumours once and for all. Great news and probably confirms that RTS is the franchise player now, not Shaun Johnson.
@sneakdefreak Great news. There is an edge to RTS that I have never seen from Johnson.
I wonder how much the Warriors threw at him with his fake AB's switch talks?
@raznomore said in The 2018 NRL preview of the Warriors:
@jegga Man that's sad. So young.
Yeah , 59 is no age . Any idea why he gave up coaching so young? I expected him to become someone like Wayne Bennett.
The lack of noise on here about RTSs re-signing I think sadly reflects the general public’s feeling towards the Warriors at the moment.
No one really gives a rats as we’re all sick of the hype and no substance.
A couple of years ago it would have generated a lot more chat and excitement I'm sure.
Good on them for getting his signature though, but I imagine they’d have had to paid overs to get it.
Brave move from him.
A meme I saw on Facebook sums it up nicely with something like ‘You mean I won’t have to play in September, really? Where do I sign’’.
The RTS news hides a bit of news the Warriors didn't want to promote: Ata Hingano, mentioned in my preview, has been granted a release from the club (via Newshub).
@gunner I can not remember another time when I have been so disassociated with the Warriors. Last year my NRL watching was so minimal I can not remember what games I actually watched and I only watched games the warriors were involved in. This year I had honestly forgotten we picked up Tohu Harris, Gerard Beale, Pita Hiku and Adam Blair let alone Green.
The Warriors will always be my team * but to be honest the NRL now sits at number 4 in my care factoring. ABs, SR and now NBA all come ahead of the NRL. I can't speak for others but too many shit years have taken their toll on me finally and I am starting to just not give a shit.
*I left that in there so I can make it back on the bandwagon undetected
@raznomore sort of the same, but it happened last year as well. I've finally just accepted that the entire organisation is fucked, and we won't amount to anything. Ever. So why invest my precious, and limited sport watching time.
We play a lot of shit games, in which we play shit, and often so does the other side. And never at good times because we are not a broadcast drawcard in Aus.
I probably watch more Cowboys games now, because they are good to watch, and play at primetime a lot (not as much as the dour and frankly ordinary Broncos, but you know, Brisbane viewing figures...).
Still watch more AFL than league.
Like you, I'll never not be a Warriors guy, but...
I gave up on NRL when I gave up on the Warriors years back...if I do find myself watching an NRL game, it is the Warriors, which may be 1 or 2 games a year.
@raznomore I have a Kiwi mate who is completely Stockholm Syndrome, was a rugby player in NZ, but now in Oz is a big time leaguie (he's full 'our game', g'greatest game' blah blah blah) so he tends to keep me interested because the Warriors is all he talks about!
But I tend to watch for the first 6-8 weeks or so and then slowly drop off after that. And like you I only watch games the Warriors are in usually. Don't have any interest in SoO.
ABs, NPC, SR, playing League on the PS4 all come before NRL for me.
@sneakdefreak Hard. They couldn't have timed this any better. Its a shame as he was a star at the WC and would have benefited with playing understudy to Green for at least a season.
I don't think Canberra is the team for him though.
