Our goalline defense was fricken awesome. Swawming them and putting in the hits when required. That was the biggest positive for me.
RTS is pure class, he would carve up in either code.
Fun game and great to see a good crowd again at Mt Smart. SJ forming a good combo with Green already bodes well.
Had a few so apologies.
There more to like than not. Seem to be getting it done while still leaving an absolute fuckload of points on the field.
Green seems to have adjusted quickly to the off load game. Johnson is a pretty player to watch when the reigns are in someone else hands. RTS is shit talker but a good leader(according to Brandy) and he did a lot of leading from the front today. Very loose with the ball at times but the defense was a thing of beauty. Penalty count was shit. Surprising not real part in that was played by Blair. But I saying that he was such a non feature I can not really remember his name mentioned.
GC are a team of left over and nobodies. They did well to keep it to 20 but I can not help but feel a better team would have made thing harder in our red zone. GC had some opportunities go against them but they weren't all that threatening really. A steam with a better offload game and a stronger bigger pack would have made made life hard for us.
Fair play to the Warriors though. They played what was in front of them and that's all you can ask of them. Some really enjoyable passages and the huddle, refocus thing is excellent. Johnson needs to sort his kicking out. 2 games in row he's been average off the tee.
Oh, well played Maumolo. Could not fault his performance. Well played that man.
Just the third time in our history that we have won our opening 2 games of a season.(assuming the Ferald is correct)
Didn’t see the game, but great result.
These are the type of games (against lesser teams) they need to keep winning if they want to be taken seriously.
2 & 0 is just crazy after getting accustomed to us being 0 & 4.
In other games when I flicked over for a look the Bunnies were up 14-6 with 10 to go and wind up losing 14-18.
Very Warriors like that is.
Was at the game and noticed a lot of people wearing brand new Warriors jerseys....
So much potential: Shame to see Isaiah Papali'i go down with a knee injury in the first 10 minutes of the game. Looks like he'll be out long-term. Leivaha Pulu came on though, played the rest of the game and was very effective with his offloading.
Breaking barriers: It's great to see the refs are using the simple eye test to determine what is or isn't obstruction. Last year there was about 25 steps in determining if a player was blocking a defender or not. This change is going to hurt a number of teams (including the Titans who had two tries called back because of obstruction) who were using the shady obstruction rules to score their points.
The real MVP: Tohu Harris was a nightmare for the Titans today. After getting a hospital pass from Shaun Johnson in the first five minutes of the game, Harris went on to terrorise the Titans edge defence. Harris > Hiku > Fusitua was too much for the Gold Coast 2, 3 and 6 that their 12 was having to come across to help out. That in turn opened lanes down the middle for guys like Lisone and Afoa. Harris also made the most tackles in the game. When Mannering returns it will probably free up Harris even more.
What about the other guys?: Gold Coast didn't have the great, mercurial (according to NRL 360) Ash Taylor. It wouldn't have mattered since although the Titans had the more possession, their edge guys, apart from maybe Konrad Hurrell, were struggling to get anything going. Even new signing Bryce Cartwright, renowned for his attacking ability, was making forward pass after forward pass.
Biggest mistake of the night: The guy shouting "Waaaarrrriiiorrrsss" from his car as he drove away from Mt Smart only to go right up the arse of another car.
@sneakdefreak said in NRL 2018:
Was at the game and noticed a lot of people wearing brand new Warriors jerseys....
So much potential: Shame to see Isaiah Papali'i go down with a knee injury in the first 10 minutes of the game. Looks like he'll be out long-term. Leivaha Pulu came on though, played the rest of the game and was very effective with his offloading.
Breaking barriers: It's great to see the refs are using the simple eye test to determine what is or isn't obstruction. Last year there was about 25 steps in determining if a player was blocking a defender or not. This change is going to hurt a number of teams (including the Titans who had two tries called back because of obstruction) who were using the shady obstruction rules to score their points.
The real MVP: Tohu Harris was a nightmare for the Titans today. After getting a hospital pass from Shaun Johnson in the first five minutes of the game, Harris went on to terrorise the Titans edge defence. Harris > Hiku > Fusitua was too much for the Gold Coast 2, 3 and 6 that their 12 was having to come across to help out. That in turn opened lanes down the middle for guys like Lisone and Afoa. Harris also made the most tackles in the game. When Mannering returns it will probably free up Harris even more.
What about the other guys?: Gold Coast didn't have the great, mercurial (according to NRL 360) Ash Taylor. It wouldn't have mattered since although the Titans had the more possession, their edge guys, apart from maybe Konrad Hurrell, were struggling to get anything going. Even new signing Bryce Cartwright, renowned for his attacking ability, was making forward pass after forward pass.
Biggest mistake of the night: The guy shouting "Waaaarrrriiiorrrsss" from his car as he drove away from Mt Smart only to go right up the arse of another car.
That last sentence. So good. Fuck I would have loved to see that.
@no-quarter said in NRL 2018:
Our goalline defense was fricken awesome. Swawming them and putting in the hits when required. That was the biggest positive for me.
RTS is pure class, he would carve up in either code.
Fun game and great to see a good crowd again at Mt Smart. SJ forming a good combo with Green already bodes well.
Agree on RTS, but gee he looked slow on that massive run up the middle after about 20 minutes, about 3 titans chasers all ran him down.
@sneakdefreak said in NRL 2018:
Was at the game and noticed a lot of people wearing brand new Warriors jerseys....
So much potential: Shame to see Isaiah Papali'i go down with a knee injury in the first 10 minutes of the game. Looks like he'll be out long-term. Leivaha Pulu came on though, played the rest of the game and was very effective with his offloading.
Breaking barriers: It's great to see the refs are using the simple eye test to determine what is or isn't obstruction. Last year there was about 25 steps in determining if a player was blocking a defender or not. This change is going to hurt a number of teams (including the Titans who had two tries called back because of obstruction) who were using the shady obstruction rules to score their points.
The real MVP: Tohu Harris was a nightmare for the Titans today. After getting a hospital pass from Shaun Johnson in the first five minutes of the game, Harris went on to terrorise the Titans edge defence. Harris > Hiku > Fusitua was too much for the Gold Coast 2, 3 and 6 that their 12 was having to come across to help out. That in turn opened lanes down the middle for guys like Lisone and Afoa. Harris also made the most tackles in the game. When Mannering returns it will probably free up Harris even more.
What about the other guys?: Gold Coast didn't have the great, mercurial (according to NRL 360) Ash Taylor. It wouldn't have mattered since although the Titans had the more possession, their edge guys, apart from maybe Konrad Hurrell, were struggling to get anything going. Even new signing Bryce Cartwright, renowned for his attacking ability, was making forward pass after forward pass.
Biggest mistake of the night: The guy shouting "Waaaarrrriiiorrrsss" from his car as he drove away from Mt Smart only to go right up the arse of another car.
That last sentence. So good. Fuck I would have loved to see that.
Unless it was in your rear vision mirror! 
@no-quarter said in NRL 2018:
Our goalline defense was fricken awesome. Swawming them and putting in the hits when required. That was the biggest positive for me.
RTS is pure class, he would carve up in either code.
Fun game and great to see a good crowd again at Mt Smart. SJ forming a good combo with Green already bodes well.
Agree on RTS, but gee he looked slow on that massive run up the middle after about 20 minutes, about 3 titans chasers all ran him down.
RTS didn't really have much of top end pace. He was just strong in the carry and ran all day. It was his step that was dangerous.
What's the matter with Parramatta? Spanked 54-0 by Manly. Manly have a weak squad (even when compared to Parramatta) yet they ran over Hayne & co.
@sneakdefreak said in NRL 2018:
What's the matter with Parramatta? Spanked 54-0 by Manly. Manly have a weak squad (even when compared to Parramatta) yet they ran over Hayne & co.
Hayne was busy having a dream.
Blake seems like he can be a missing piece for us. I like him already
@antipodean said in NRL 2018:
Put your mortgage on the Tigers.
Put your drug stash on the Knights. Came back to beat the Raiders 30-28.
Warriors make a few changes for their clash against the Raiders in Canberra. Papali'i is out for at least six weeks with a knee injury so Pulu moves into the second row while Agnatius Paasi is on the bench. Sammy Cook drops from the bench and is replaced by Jazzy Tevaga.
VODAFONE WARRIORS
1 Roger Tuivasa-Sheck (c)
2 David Fusitu’a
3 Peta Hiku
4 Solomone Kata
5 Ken Maumalo
6 Blake Green
7 Shaun Johnson
8 James Gavet
9 Issac Luke
10 Adam Blair
11 Leivaha Pulu
12 Tohu Harris
13 Ligi Sao
Interchange
14 Jazz Tevaga
15 Agnatius Paasi
16 Sam Lisone
17 Bunty Afoa
18 Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad
20 Anthony Gelling
21 Chris Satae
22 Mason Lino
I know he butchered a try, but how good is Bunty running this season? Almost 120m's a game off the bench so far this season. Very impressive for a guy who is on the small side for playing up the middle.
I looked at the stats for last season and he didn't carry for 100m's even once last year(highest was 86m's). Not sure what he did, but his leg drive is something else this year.
@no-quarter said in NRL 2018:
Our goalline defense was fricken awesome. Swawming them and putting in the hits when required. That was the biggest positive for me.
RTS is pure class, he would carve up in either code.
Fun game and great to see a good crowd again at Mt Smart. SJ forming a good combo with Green already bodes well.
Agree on RTS, but gee he looked slow on that massive run up the middle after about 20 minutes, about 3 titans chasers all ran him down.
To be fair to RTS, he did lose a bit of speed when he beat the last defender. The fullback also slightly clipped him on that run too.
They won a league game with nothing more than penalties and a field goal. That's astounding
what a fucken snooze fest that game was. I fell asleep half way through the 2nd half. Should have watched the other game.
Warriors up to their old tricks, giving away penalty after penalty after penalty, resulting in a visit to the naughty chair to Adam Blair.
Down 12-0 early.
Now is where we will see what the Warriors 2018 vintage is made of. Do they have enough in the top 2 inches to work their way out of the hole they’ve created?
As I type, Warriors score in their first visit to the Raiders end of the field.
Our right side attack with Hiku Harris and Fusitua is deadly. We score a try while Blair is on the naughty step
Warriors down by 7 with 8 to go.
They’ve had opportunities to close the gap but they are lacking composure.
Remarkable.
I still think that if you get a PK in front when down by 7 with 5mins to go you take the 2 every time.
Unreal.
8 to go I didn’t think they’d do it.
This side is not like Warriors of old, they’ve got some good old fashioned ticker this lot.
She’s not over till she’s over!
I saw some dumb stuff from us, some bullshit calls from the ref but mostly I saw a composed, but messy, 80 min performance where they waited for the openings. The ability to finish things off is what is going to make or break us against better attacking teams. We should have put 30 plus on GC and to be honest I think we were better than a 1 point win today. just keep dropping crucial opportunities.
Well played Harris, Luke, Afoa and in patches Hiku, Green and obviously Johnson towards the end.
Fuck yeah! In spite of some dumb stuff and some rough calls. Can see some mean combos emerging too - harris/hiku/fusitua with SJ down the right is money time.
