So... so far the Warriors have played 130 minutes of rugby league this NRL season for precisely zero points on the scoreboard.
Is there a more uninspiring coaching team doing the rounds anywhere, or are Kearney and co dreary beyond peer?
100 years ago was the last time a premiership team was held scoreless in their first two games. 11 minutes to go...
I have watched the last 20 minutes. They are absolutely dire.
@Crazy-Horse said in NRL 2020:
100 years ago was the last time a premiership team was held scoreless in their first two games. 11 minutes to go...
I have watched the last 20 minutes. They are absolutely dire.
So happy the new owners are a big step up from the old owners.....
@Donsteppa more so the players are just shit!!! I would only pick ah mai, Harris, green, fusitua, mamalo and rts as first class players... nz league development is crap and has been for a long time
@98blueandgold said in NRL 2020:
@Donsteppa more so the players are just shit!!! I would only pick ah mai, Harris, green, fusitua, mamalo and rts as first class players... nz league development is crap and has been for a long time
In the old days the Warriors had access to most of the emerging talent in NZ. These days they compete with all the teams in the league
I had ticket for the double header at Eden Park to watch the Raiders who I have supported avidly for 30 years. So glad to see this game today and well done warriors for your efforts and sacrifices. I just love live sport to take my mind off other things.
@98blueandgold said in NRL 2020:
@canefan being involved in secondary sport and league I would say the level has dropped dramatically in the last 10 years. U look at a nz u18/17/15 team and only a handful have made nrl. Can’t rely on local talent. Harsh but true
Most of that team weren't really local talent. Even a bunch of the NZers in the team came through pathways other than the Warriors. I think only Fus, Ken, Harris-Tevita and Papali'i are actual "locals".
It's just a poorly assembled squad.
@Nepia more when you go back to hay days of toopi. Jones, lauatitii etc the NZ guys weren’t shit they were amazing plus adding in your campions, lucks, marsh, price etc. now look, Pappalii was meant to be next big NZ thing but he is terrible modern day back rower. Only Harris, Ah Mau, RTS, moemalo and fusitua are NZ players who would make 17 every week of most teams.
Actually, we could have a thread on gross shit we've seen (done!?) in a court session or on an end of season trip.
We could call it the hypocrites thread.
You really don't get the distinction at all, do you? That's rhetorical by the way. In case you don't get that, either.
@98blueandgold said in NRL 2020:
@Nepia more when you go back to hay days of toopi. Jones, lauatitii etc the NZ guys weren’t shit they were amazing plus adding in your campions, lucks, marsh, price etc. now look, Pappalii was meant to be next big NZ thing but he is terrible modern day back rower. Only Harris, Ah Mau, RTS, moemalo and fusitua are NZ players who would make 17 every week of most teams.
Your mention of the Aussies feeds into my point, we had good and sometimes great Ockers filling the spots we had gaps in back then, now we don't. Green was a great player, his body simply can not keep up with his brain so far, Egan might be good but we haven't seen evidence of it so far, Burr is a plodder whose only talent seems to be he's a white Australian dude.
Our squad is dud, our two best players came from the Storm and Chocks despite the fact they're Kiwis. It's not a local talent issue, there's enough young Kiwis running around in the NRL but the Warriors just can't seem to access that talent.
After watching the shit show from the Warriors last night I kind of wish the NRL got canned as well. I kind of thought the Warriors might adopt a siege mentality due to the circumstances and put in some good performances, but they don't have the right leaders to enable that.
