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Speaker 3: a good idea and I'm sure it was for many reasons.
Speaker 3: But on the grass at Allegiance Stadium, the Warriors suffering
Speaker 3: their biggest ever first round NRL defeat thirty points to eight.
Speaker 3: So the Canberra Raiders. How concerned should Warriors fans be?
Speaker 3: Richie Barnett's on the podcast today to talk that through
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Speaker 3: check for the Warriors in Las Vegas yesterday, going down
Speaker 3: thirty points to eight to the Camera Raiders in Las Vegas,
Speaker 3: conceding five tries to two and being outclassed in pretty
Speaker 3: much every area of the game. Let's bring in form
Speaker 3: a kie, long time rugby leg professional Sky Sport analyst
Speaker 3: Richie Barnett. Richie, how worried should we be about that
Speaker 3: first up performance from the Warriors in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 5: Heah, I mean you'd certainly be worried about the performance.
Speaker 5: Being the first up game in Las Vegas. You know
Speaker 5: that all the hype was real and the tone was
Speaker 5: set for a fantastic matchup and what we had last
Speaker 5: year was incredible, but they didn't deliver as we'd expect.
Speaker 5: And there's one side camera who were incredible, to be honest,
Speaker 5: and the Warriors were just suffocated.
Speaker 3: It was really concerning what will be taking up most
Speaker 3: of coach Andrew Webster's thinking time on the flight home.
Speaker 5: Oh, there was certainly the execution part, but I think
Speaker 5: without their go forward and their territory, it was really
Speaker 5: difficult and that was because of Canbra's brutal defense, and
Speaker 5: they just basically, you know, over that period of the game,
Speaker 5: they just wore them down physically in the attack and
Speaker 5: physically in defense. So they'll be concentrating on really getting
Speaker 5: the yardage game going, getting into the territor where they
Speaker 5: can attack straighten up the defense. They were very much
Speaker 5: east to west. They weren't direct enough. We saw that
Speaker 5: in the trial matches where they were really executing their
Speaker 5: set pieces and their shape looked really, really good. I
Speaker 5: thought Metcalf played really well in the pre season in
Speaker 5: terms of squaring the set piece up and there was
Speaker 5: a nice balance, but it just seemed to fall to pieces.
Speaker 5: And I guess you know, when you're up against a
Speaker 5: side who was probably one of the fittest team on
Speaker 5: the well in the comp and also the youngest. They're
Speaker 5: the youngest side in the competition, believe it or not.
Speaker 5: They've lost quite a lot of their strike power over
Speaker 5: the last year, and so as the Warriors, but they
Speaker 5: performed extremely well.
Speaker 3: What a team like the Raiders is dominating you like
Speaker 3: that physically when the Warriors had the ball, what's the
Speaker 3: best way to combat that.
Speaker 5: It's interesting, and it really is. It's just an aggressive approach.
Speaker 5: They really do have to match the energy. But when
Speaker 5: I look at it, actually, when I start to delve
Speaker 5: into it, they have really traditionally in their forward pack,
Speaker 5: it's pretty straight up and down. Kirk Capewell. You see
Speaker 5: n Cordy who just runs directed. There's no real footwork
Speaker 5: in the way they play. Most of them don't have
Speaker 5: a step with Aidan Vanila Blake's gone, so there was
Speaker 5: a player that actually could step through. Most of them
Speaker 5: run direct. There's no real footwork, late footwork at the line.
Speaker 5: Most of the forwards actually in the camera raiders are
Speaker 5: a prototype that has got one strength and secondly that
Speaker 5: footwork in the line late that would that gets them
Speaker 5: through there through the line, and they're really physical. For
Speaker 5: some strange reason, they are very very strong players. I
Speaker 5: couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe what I've seen, and
Speaker 5: I don't think it gave it just justice when you're
Speaker 5: actually watching about how physical that game was.
Speaker 3: Indeed, well you talk about the writers stepping through the
Speaker 3: defensive line. The Warriors missed forty tackles twenty eight in
Speaker 3: the first half alone. Richie, how do you explain.
Speaker 5: That, Well, it's this young fellow called Tamale and he
Speaker 5: got weeks at fallback and tomorrow and Chris s thee
Speaker 5: best in Chris. Somehow they have got the strength to
Speaker 5: get through. They were throwing numbers at them. They would
Speaker 5: have three or four tacklers in there and they'd still
Speaker 5: get through one. It's an attitude. Secondly, it's energy. Thirdly,
Speaker 5: you've got to give it back to them as well.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you've got to pivot a little bit too. It
Speaker 5: looked like that was again very pedestrian in the way
Speaker 5: it is. It Actually the game actually unfolds as you
Speaker 5: you start to win the battle of the ruck, and
Speaker 5: once you start winning that things are different. Then you
Speaker 5: start to question everything in your seeing as we are
Speaker 5: questioning everything now what needs to change? And then we
Speaker 5: start to look at the spine. What are they not
Speaker 5: doing well? You can't do anything if you're not going fortyre,
Speaker 5: not winning the ruck, and you're not being physical in
Speaker 5: the ruck, and so there's so many facets to where
Speaker 5: they lost the game, and it all combines to a
Speaker 5: really average game where you just can't win anything. The
Speaker 5: kicking game and they were back at the forty kicking
Speaker 5: and most occasions that's why it looked pretty boring because
Speaker 5: they were kicking on the forty. They couldn't challenge their kicks,
Speaker 5: so they weren't building pressure off the kick. So everything
Speaker 5: was just a real Munday watch, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: It was? Yeah, And you landed on such a good
Speaker 3: point about the halves and whether we can assess them
Speaker 3: or not without a platform. But how did you assess
Speaker 3: the performance of Chanelle, Harris Devita and Luke Metcalfe. No
Speaker 3: Sewan Johnson anymore, he's a big loss, but what about
Speaker 3: these two?
Speaker 5: I just think you can't even really gauge it when
Speaker 5: you fall not going forward now had three runs. I
Speaker 5: think Luke Metcalfe had three runs. And they'll direct thing
Speaker 5: with both of them there there there, they're run the
Speaker 5: runners of the ball, so you're not going to get
Speaker 5: creativity as such, but they'll only be effective if you're
Speaker 5: going forward to winning that battle. So there wasn't really anything.
Speaker 5: I thought Chanelle's kicking game was pretty good considering we
Speaker 5: was kicking it from Luke had obviously not a great
Speaker 5: game on that right side they tried to. If we
Speaker 5: saw what they they were constructing, it was very very
Speaker 5: east to west, you know, and in the trial match,
Speaker 5: I saw something that was quite different than what I've
Speaker 5: seen in a while. They executed it well. There was
Speaker 5: nice synergy and balance between what they were doing in
Speaker 5: the preseasons, but this one here just looked like they
Speaker 5: were starting new. They didn't know each other's play. I
Speaker 5: know that you built chemistry and combinations, but to start
Speaker 5: the season off then in the battle of the rack,
Speaker 5: that's concerning, And.
Speaker 3: To build chemistry and combination you have to play together often,
Speaker 3: don't you. But do you think Andrew Webster will be
Speaker 3: attempted at all to think about Tomati Martin in one
Speaker 3: of those positions?
Speaker 5: I reckon there's a huge consideration what I do have
Speaker 5: an issue with, And like anything, when you leak, we're
Speaker 5: not in that battle of the ruck. You get exposed
Speaker 5: on the endes, you know, decision making. As much as
Speaker 5: we've got real young, talented, robust runners such as Leo Tower,
Speaker 5: they were pretty he was exposed to early, you know,
Speaker 5: when they scored the first try sebasting Chris and the
Speaker 5: left And that was a real, real simple thing for
Speaker 5: me where an experience comes into play. He turned, his
Speaker 5: body was in front of the defender inside he turns
Speaker 5: by the inward, so he was stuck. He was gone
Speaker 5: then and there, and they scored a try, which is
Speaker 5: the first try of the game, which could have been saved,
Speaker 5: and that's the start of the game. For the camera
Speaker 5: wires exposed decision making from youngsters, which is concerning for
Speaker 5: me because when you're on a when you when things
Speaker 5: happen for you, it's easy to defend. But when things
Speaker 5: you're against the war, that's when the true defenders come out.
Speaker 5: And I just wonder if they start to look at
Speaker 5: Harper to come to the side or an experience center,
Speaker 5: because they've got an experience on the centers, that's where
Speaker 5: all the defense, that's where all the attack goes, that's
Speaker 5: where all the decision makers have to be really really strong.
Speaker 3: Certainly, plenty of food for thought after the Vegas experience, Richie,
Speaker 3: thanks for joining us, mate, Really appreciate your time. Richie
Speaker 3: Barnett on the Sports Fix podcast Sportsfect. There was a
Speaker 3: quite extraordinary game of football at go Media Stadium on
Speaker 3: Saturday afternoon as Auckland f C welcomed one of their
Speaker 3: closest challenges for the A League title, Adelaide United to
Speaker 3: town another weltering Auckland afternoon. Auckland f C had continued
Speaker 3: this community engagement of theirs by erecting a fairiss wheel
Speaker 3: at one end and all sorts of circus activities. You
Speaker 3: have to hand it to them, they know how to
Speaker 3: get people along to their games. Nearly seventeen thousand there
Speaker 3: again on Saturday afternoon, after quarter of an hour, Auckland
Speaker 3: FC were already two knill ahead. Gauzumo Mai, their super
Speaker 3: striker from Uruguay, had lashed one and from outside the area,
Speaker 3: and then added a second from close range, and it
Speaker 3: looked as though this was going to be a procession
Speaker 3: to another three points for Auckland FC. But Adelaide United
Speaker 3: but back before halftime to make it to one. But
Speaker 3: then shortly after the break Auckland FC went three to
Speaker 3: one ahead. Now a lot of teams away at Auckland
Speaker 3: FC in this situation just kind of lie down. They
Speaker 3: shrugged their shoulders and say, you know what, this is
Speaker 3: not our day, or to just get to the end
Speaker 3: of the game and get on the plane and go
Speaker 3: back home and start again next weekend. Adelaide United to
Speaker 3: the contrary, thought, no, we are here for a contest
Speaker 3: and we are going to give Auckland FC a contest,
Speaker 3: and what followed was a couple of penalty decisions. One
Speaker 3: was given on the advice of VR, one was given
Speaker 3: on the field and not overturns by VR. Both were
Speaker 3: vehemently protested by Steve corik At, the head coach of
Speaker 3: Auckland FC, both during the game and afterwards as well,
Speaker 3: but both stood and both were converted by Zach claff
Speaker 3: of Adelaide United. So all of a sudden, it's three
Speaker 3: to three with ten minutes to go, and then the
Speaker 3: craziest sequence of events as we ticked past the ninety
Speaker 3: minute mark. First of all, Auckland's talismanic captain Hiroki sark
Speaker 3: I scored a goal in the second minute of at
Speaker 3: a Time and it looked as though the home side
Speaker 3: was going to come out on top of a seven
Speaker 3: goal thriller. But true to form, Adelaide United said no,
Speaker 3: we're not done yet either. They went down the other
Speaker 3: end and in the eighth minute of at a Time
Speaker 3: they scored an equalizer and it finished four to four.
Speaker 3: It is such an unlikely, uncommon score line in football,
Speaker 3: and it really was just typical of a quite extraordinary day.
Speaker 3: So the points are shared, but I don't reckon that
Speaker 3: is the last time these two teams will face off
Speaker 3: during the season. That felt to me like a between
Speaker 3: the top two teams in the competition. And I would
Speaker 3: say that we may well see the same two on
Speaker 3: the same patch of grass in the A League Final
Speaker 3: at the back end of May, and I don't think
Speaker 3: you would get too many arguments.
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Speaker 3: As you'll know regular Monday listeners, it's the People's Chamber
Speaker 3: with Elijah feet were joining us. Elijah, I'm not quite
Speaker 3: sure how to how to put this Warrior's result performance
Speaker 3: into context from yesterday? Have you given it some thoughts?
Speaker 3: Can you perhaps do that for me and me and
Speaker 3: our listeners.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean basically, the Warriors fell flat like under
Speaker 4: the bright lights of Sin City and Las Vegas. I
Speaker 4: guess the American dream tends to a nightmare for the
Speaker 4: Warriors that they're probably hoping that this heavy defeat or
Speaker 4: in the performance that they put up, you know what
Speaker 4: Happensvegas stays in Vegas and that's what the Warriors will
Speaker 4: be hoping. Like I think on attack, it was stifled.
Speaker 4: There weren't many opportunities being created. And when that sort
Speaker 4: of happens, you look to your playmakers, the likes of
Speaker 4: Luke Metcalf and Shanel Harris Tavita that that was at
Speaker 4: the right combination in the halves, the use of the
Speaker 4: strike weapons, the rotation in the forwards bringing off Barnett
Speaker 4: and Fisher Harris for Clark and Dylan Walker.
Speaker 2: Was that the right rotation there?
Speaker 4: So I think plenty of questions coming out of their
Speaker 4: opening round performance and defence, like they missed plenty of tackles,
Speaker 4: they lacked the accuracy and discipline on that side of
Speaker 4: the ball. So a lot to work on for the Warriors.
Speaker 4: But hey, there's only round one, so you're hoping that
Speaker 4: if you're a Warriors fan, that the Warriors can consertainly.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's only one way they go from here.
Speaker 3: I'd say, indeed, we've just reeled off an entire list
Speaker 3: though of issues facing this team. And I know they
Speaker 3: do have what teen days now, don't they because they
Speaker 3: don't play until until Friday. Weeks I've got a decent
Speaker 3: amount of time to try and put some of those
Speaker 3: things right. If you were really drilling down into the
Speaker 3: main focus here is what would you be doing if
Speaker 3: you were Andrew Webster on the flight home, what would
Speaker 3: you be writing down in your notebook?
Speaker 2: I'd say the main thing is defence.
Speaker 4: I mean, we know the old Mantra defence wins championships,
Speaker 4: and I think the opening round performance is not the
Speaker 4: type of defense you would have liked to see from
Speaker 4: a team that you know, all this hype building into
Speaker 4: the season, throughout the preseason and they come into Las
Speaker 4: Vegas and just four flat on that side of the ball,
Speaker 4: Like a lot of the tackles that were missed were
Speaker 4: just real sloppy, sloppy defense.
Speaker 2: They pretty much just fell off the Raiders.
Speaker 4: And I mean those are the sort of things that
Speaker 4: need to be worked on right away before you focus
Speaker 4: on something like attack, because you know defense is going
Speaker 4: to take the seam a long way. So for me,
Speaker 4: if I'm Andrew Webster, it's the defense first and foremost.
Speaker 3: The Raiders look good, though, ah, I know they're not
Speaker 3: in many people's pre season top four predictions, but they
Speaker 3: look all were they made to look good? What did
Speaker 3: you make of the Green Machine.
Speaker 4: I personally think that they were made to look good
Speaker 4: because the Warriors just looked really bad in their opening
Speaker 4: round performance. But again, it is round one, so I
Speaker 4: think if we see a couple more of these performances
Speaker 4: from Canberra, don't want to take too much away from
Speaker 4: their performances.
Speaker 2: From their performance because.
Speaker 4: They did play really well, and a lot of great
Speaker 4: players in that side, like a Xavier Savage and a
Speaker 4: Sebastian Cris like those backs. They've really got some some
Speaker 4: weapons out there, so it was a great performance. But
Speaker 4: again I don't want to overreact after round one.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, we'll see how we are in a
Speaker 3: few weeks. We'll talk about this weekly, no doubt here
Speaker 3: in the People's Chamber, as we will and have been
Speaker 3: on Super Rugby. Should we just give the trophy to
Speaker 3: the Chiefs now?
Speaker 4: Maybe we might have to, especially now that they've got
Speaker 4: this extra incensive of sending Clayton McMillan out a winner. Yes,
Speaker 4: I'm considering they've they've come up short the last couple
Speaker 4: of years. Maybe this year is the year to give
Speaker 4: the Chiefs the title. They look really good and it's
Speaker 4: pretty much the Chiefs. The Chiefs and everyone else. That's
Speaker 4: there's a bit of a gap in between the Chiefs
Speaker 4: and and the rest of the competition right now. So
Speaker 4: I'm very impressive performance against the Brumbies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought they were just very very good in
Speaker 3: all areas. And I was trying in the you know,
Speaker 3: in the in the spirit of being objective and not
Speaker 3: that I'm from the Chiefs country at all. I'm a
Speaker 3: Hurricanes fan, but to try and find some fault but
Speaker 3: I couldn't really find any. And competition for places players
Speaker 3: you know, you know, just consistently playing well. Quinta Paia,
Speaker 3: what a game from him. I just thought he was
Speaker 3: terrific the other day. Playing in the afternoon is always helpful,
Speaker 3: of course. Damian mackenzie, have you heard anything about his
Speaker 3: potential injury today? Do we know whether he might be
Speaker 3: out for a bit?
Speaker 4: Not too sure yet yet to receive an update on that,
Speaker 4: but that might be. They might have fans a little
Speaker 4: bit worried, both Chiefs and the all back, so hopefully
Speaker 4: it's not too serious. But yeah, he's been us downing
Speaker 4: to start the season. Damian McKenzie.
Speaker 6: And as well as guy a guy.
Speaker 4: Like Quincy Pia who has been along with some mast
Speaker 4: the time of Naiwai, one of the best midfielders to
Speaker 4: start in the Super Rugby.
Speaker 2: So but yeah, hopefully.
Speaker 4: Dmac that injury isn't isn't too bad and.
Speaker 3: Good to see the plucky battlers the Blues finally get
Speaker 3: a win.
Speaker 6: Yeah great, Oh, I mean, thanks for bringing that up,
Speaker 6: fine and all.
Speaker 3: It was against my hurricades. I don't have to, but
Speaker 3: I am yah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm not too sure what happened at the end
Speaker 6: of the game there.
Speaker 4: There was a little bit of a delay and so
Speaker 4: I couldn't really explain what happened there, But you ended
Speaker 4: up with bone and barried at half back. I think
Speaker 4: a j lamb came in on one of the flanks,
Speaker 4: one of the most Yeah, a very weird scrum at
Speaker 4: the end of the game, I'd say, but the Blues
Speaker 4: scraped out.
Speaker 2: A win there.
Speaker 4: I'd say the Blues and the Hurricanes are sort of
Speaker 4: in the similar tier and that they're both teams that
Speaker 4: you know, can compete for a title, but for one
Speaker 4: reason or another, they've just been a little bit slow
Speaker 4: to come out of the gates. But I do think
Speaker 4: as the season goes on, both of these teams will
Speaker 4: find themselves near the top of the table. But that
Speaker 4: was a great game on Saturday night.
Speaker 3: You just to try and explain what happened at the
Speaker 3: back end of that game. I think as I understand it,
Speaker 3: Sam not could come on as reserve half ber we
Speaker 3: had taken the place of Finlay. Christie got a whack
Speaker 3: in their head and it was a decent whack in
Speaker 3: their head. So the Blue said, okay, well he needs
Speaker 3: to go off for an HIA assessment, therefore we can
Speaker 3: replace him. But the independent doctor said no, he does
Speaker 3: not have an HIA, so you can't replace him. It
Speaker 3: was and they were down to fourteen by that stage anyway,
Speaker 3: the Blues which further complicated things. Very odd though to
Speaker 3: see let's just say Boden part feeding the scrime right
Speaker 3: at the end.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess for the way the Super Roby competition
Speaker 4: has been before, this fast, free flowing rugby. That's probably
Speaker 4: the longest stretch of non rugby that we've seen so
Speaker 4: far this season.
Speaker 6: So credits to both of our teams. They're poney for doing.
Speaker 3: That, absolutely right, absolutely right. Just a quick word on
Speaker 3: Auckland FC for all against Adelaide. They know that they
Speaker 3: have dropped a couple of points here because they led
Speaker 3: three times throughout the game and late on and couldn't
Speaker 3: get it done. Eight points though, still seems like a
Speaker 3: decent buffet, doesn't it. With eight games to go, yeah, for.
Speaker 4: Sure, And I think I mean to come away for a
Speaker 4: single point. I think Auklanc will be disappointed, but they'll
Speaker 4: they'll take that single point. It was a great game.
Speaker 4: I managed to be there in the crowd, and I
Speaker 4: mean you thought Heroarchic Psychai had had won the game
Speaker 4: there in stoppage time again for Auckland f C in
Speaker 4: a stoppage time goal, and then Adelaide served Auckland a
Speaker 4: dose of their own medicine by coming back with their equalizers.
Speaker 4: So and you could hear a pin drop when that
Speaker 4: when Adelaide scored that final goal. So they pretty much
Speaker 4: silenced the crowd there. But it definitely lived up to
Speaker 4: the building of the top of the table clash. But yeah,
Speaker 4: Auckland f C, I think they'll be disappointed, but they'll
Speaker 4: take that single point.
Speaker 3: I reckon that's a Grand Final dress rehearsal. I think
Speaker 3: those two could well meet in the Grand Final on
Speaker 3: that same patch of grass. Actually, that'd be an occasion
Speaker 3: not to miss. All right, Elijah, great to chat sport
Speaker 3: with you in the People's Chamber, provided your many commitments allow.
Speaker 3: But we'll do it again next Monday, for sure.
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