Holey hecka, this is an impressive first 13 minutes.
Warriors looking very sharp, they’re playing with such speed and continuity.
Up 12-0
Some huge defensive plays from Cronulla in that set.
Great footy all round!
DWZ taken in the air surely, this has to be a Warriors penalty.
Warriors discipline a concern, that must be the 4th or 5th defensive set in a row that we’ve given away a penalty.
Mistakes creeping in too.
Jackson Ford having a shocker, that’s his 3rd knock on of the half.
And another penalty to the Sharks.
Need the half time break to come quick…
Hoping Webster calms these fullas down, and gets them back to the game they were playing in the first 20 - fast paced, quick rucks, mistake free.
Need someone to step up and grab the momentum back for us, it’s been all Sharks for the last 25 minutes.
How’s that Sharks ball, when he’s been taken out in the tackle.
I can’t get my head around this call.
We have slept through the second half so far. Will we wake up in time before it's too late?
Ref is allowing Sharks to play fast, to be fair they are fighting to get up. Warriors being slowed down without punishment
These Sharks are fucken trying to milk penalties. Thought the ref said he wasn't going to put up with that?
This is our chance. To be frank, we haven't looked remotely like scoring since the 25rh minute
What the fuck happened? We came out of the blocks so well. The game got ugly and we couldn't muscle up. Maybe next year will be our year....
Man that’s soo disappointing.
Had plenty of ball, just could t do a an thing with it, and never looked like scoring after the 10th or so minute.
Fark me the Warriors fell off a cliff at about 25 mins. So many missed tackles, half asses hit ups and shit kicks. Anyway it's only round one so big work ons.
@Donsteppa said in NRL 2024:
Normal service of poor fitness and concentration has returned...
I thought Webby said we had a great preseason....
Melbourne 2-0 up over Penrith at halftime. Errors galore out there, hope to see a better 2nd half.
20 awesome minutes. 60 shit ones.
Red hot start, but you just knew that not making them pay on the scoreboard was going to come back to bite is when possession inevitably evened up. And we were so close too, the cruel bounce to evade capewell, spud glow enigma not being able to ground the cross kick.
Taking off Egan fucked us, because lussick is an awful dummy half. Then egan got hurt again just when we needed him.
I saw someone say SJ sucked which I think is bullshit. He played his ass off with no support from the rest of his spine, slow play thr balls, and a backline running laterally.
Metcalf was absolutely shithouse except one run. The young fullback was a dead loss in attack. We repeatedly spread the ball in to waiting sharks defenders.
That backrow definitely lacks spark, far too conservative. Ford just has to go, yes even after 1 round.
But credit thr sharks. They defended like heroes, never fell out of the fight, and thrn followed talakai to the win.
Round 1, flush and move on.
Still cranky though
