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Dragons were very good and defended with a lot of resilience but we made it very easy for them in the first half with terrible discipline. We looked a bit easily irritated all game might be a bit of tiredness and complacency there Webby didn’t use his bench but we dominated up the middle all...

You have to give it to Manly, they were tactically very good, and brilliant in the first half helped by too many errors from us. I thought they went into their shells a bit in the second half. One of the advantages you have as a good team is that the other team can feel the pressure with the...

Ford is safe, plays long minutes and runs great lines. Makes a fair few errors but he can sort that out. Left side is a bit clunky but that’s Martin and RTS not Ford. RTS is going to need some time to work out centre and what’s required of him and Martin’s in the same boat. Will be...

Ali has a lot of talent and Laban reminds me of a young Matulino, but there is something a bit special about Halasima. We haven’t produced a genuinely great junior since SJ, but he’s got that elite talent that you don’t see too often. He’s got that mixture of speed, footwork and work rate...

The kick chase is such an important part of the way we play at the moment. Keeps the other team working it off their line and keeps us ahead in the arm wrestle. Berry is the key to it and does an outstanding job each week, but it’s great to see the other parts of his game improving as well...

Ali has a huge amount of potential, but his body position is too high and he has some work ons in defence. Just as a comparison Rocco Berry couldn’t get a start until nearly half way through the season last year. I’m happy for him to wait his time until he’s a bit more well rounded, we want him...

When Jazz and Ale who were two of our best last week can’t make the squad you know you have depth. Would like to see a full 80 minutes this week, we’ve done well in parts but patchy in others. Niukore will help, I think he’s a bit underrated in terms of his physicality both in attack and defence.

There’s not exactly a huge amount of half talent on the market, so happy to re-sign Metcalf 500k isn’t a lot of money in the scheme of things so it’s not a bad deal. I’m not sure he has the vision or organizational abilities to be a great half but he hasn’t played a lot of first grade. If he...

I’m happy to wait and see with Jazz, he started the season very well before getting injured and clearly wasn’t 100% at the start of the season. There’s a decent chance he goes very well this season. I hope he does, through some very dark times supporting this team at least I knew Jazz was...

I thought ill discipline apart, it was a very professional performance. Defended well, great ruck speed and a lot of composure. Thought it was Metcalf’s best game in terms of game management at the Warriors and has probably earnt the start in round one. Need Egan to stay healthy, huge drop in...

I’m a bit relieved we’ve missed out of BHU, he’s not going to age well and he’s got some injury issues. When you are signing a player these days a year in advance, particularly for three years it’s not always about the player they are now, its the player they’ll be 2-3 years down the track...

Attitude was good all game, and most of the players you’d expect to actually play first grade went well. Bunch of promising forwards but I think they are another year away from making an impact. RTS looked sharp which is a promising sign. CHT and Farr were poor, half depth could be an issue...

It’s a hard one to gauge. The Eels, Rabbitohs and Cowboys would be disappointed not to make the 8 and you’d think at least one of them would improve. Inside the 8 the Roosters, Storm and Sharks would think they can do better as well. All have their strengths and weaknesses. As for us, I...

One thing we did in our recruitment last season is the guys we recruited CNK, Niukore, Barnett and Walker were all in their mid twenties in their prime. If you look at the props who went well in their thirties they were tall athletic guys like Price and Petero and Bromwich. Don’t recall any...

I don’t like it, he’s not the sort of player who is going to age well and he’ll be 29 when we sign him. It reminds me a bit of when we released SJ and got Nikorima in return.

All three halves have weaknesses, Martin can’t kick and running game isn’t great. Metcalf lacks vision and organizing skills. CHT lacks speed and his kicking game isn’t that flash. We are a lot more structured than when CHT left and that might help him. Still hard to see him be more than a...

The agent seems to be the main culprit here for not signing the release until he passed the medical. Interesting we paid him to leave, Volkman must have been quite out of favour for us to do that.

The Sharks pack was very ordinary last season, hence why they are paying big money for AFB and happy to let BHU go. He’d be great as a role player but extremely poor at playing 60 quality minutes like Fonua-Blake does each week.

Volkman leaving makes SJ even more valuable. I’m unconvinced any of the other half options can guide the team around the park if SJ goes down. On the positive the fact that Volkman has taken a one year deal to leave, means he didn’t really want to be here. Also that Webster feels comfortable...

The issue for the Sharks was as good as their attack is, their middles couldn’t stop good teams rumble it up the park. AFB is a great fix for them but I’m glad there was no swap, the Sharks have no middles worth swapping and we would have to have upgraded their contract for a player to come...