Finals Week 2 vs Warriors - 4:05pm Sunday 20th of September - Eden Park

[Macca89]

Prelim? Yeah. Im not sure if they're all being made available as there's a lot greyed out on ticketmaster or whether they're legit sold. Hopefully a bit crowd. Sid Foggs should be prepping all their busses for the trip.

Sorry meant to write GF

 

[R_A]

Sorry meant to write GF

No worries, I was doing the same in 2013, hard to tell because Penrith are probably that level the Roosters were on, elite team, elite players, don't look like being slowed down. Wishful thinking but gotta believe right? lol

 

[Macca89]

Yeh I bought gf tickets in 2013. I don’t want to jinx myself this year

 

[Jon Snow]

Was very happy Barnett decided to do his best Gallen impression and take a bunch of the 4th tackle hit up’s while they were trying to attack our line

My exact thoughts watching the game, he really stunted their attack. Exactly Gallen and Bird like in origin a few years back.

 

[jamesgould]

Well, have pulled the trigger on both the prelim and the grand final tickets... Hope it's not a jinx

What an epic win

Should have waited for those cut price Grand Final tickets going on sale from Warriors fans on Monday morning!

 

[R_A]

Honestly, do kind of feel bad for them, they're a humble team and matched it with the best teams this year. Websters a good bloke, Fish is a champion, had injuries (like us) Just a really bizarre first game against the Dolphins then us, scoring what? 3 tries in total...
It is sweet to get a bit of revenge for a team that always struggles in NZ, the two losses this year then 2023...

 

[Haku’sAfro85]

Dead set those Kiwi journos were embarrassing….

 

[Sheldon]

Les must ne upset

 

[Defence wins games]

Far out, reminds me we did this without props lol.

62% territory to the Warriors lol.

And only 70 percent completion rate!

 

[Macca89]

Yeh I thought Webster handled that well. Didn’t blame the decisions for the result and was humble in defeat

 

[jamesgould]

And only 70 percent completion rate!

Somehow normal stats just don't apply to this team!

 

[Vagabond89]

Were there many f tickets available?

More are being released as sections sell out, none of the top tier has gone on sale yet

 

[Alex]

I don't want to get people over excited but out of the 4 teams left in premiership contention, only us and Penrith haven't conceded 50 this season... Just saying

 

[Wagyu Patty]

I don't want to get people over excited but out of the 4 teams left in premiership contention, only us and Penrith haven't conceded 50 this season... Just saying

So we'll beat them by 50 on our way to the premiership!

 

[Billy]

The gameplan was audacious.

The old saying is forwards win finals and the backs determine by how much.

In this game our wingers had 20 runs each and our back 6 all ran an average of about 15 times each and well over 100 metres, while our forwards all tackled their hearts out - 53 to Crossland, 46 to McEwen etc, with only Crouch running for 100+ metres.

The plan was obviously for our experienced backs to take on a massive workload and for our young forwards to just concentrate on tackling their big pack.

Conventional wisdom would say that could never work.

 

[HarVeeGee13]

31 tackles no misses for Hopwood. Unbelievable given the type of game it was.

 

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[Tackleslikeagirl]

Some genius on here said Sharpe would run riot. I thought that was one of his best games. He played tough. Was versatile, made good decisions and took on brave runs through the middle. He’s a rep player through and through.

His 50th game too tonight! Never realised til I saw his jersey!

 

[Macca89]

Anyone else struggling to wind down?

 

[Alex]

Some genius on here said Sharpe would run riot. I thought that was one of his best games. He played tough. Was versatile, made good decisions and took on brave runs through the middle. He’s a rep player through and through.

Why thank you