July 31, 2025 • 10 mins
The Warriors are looking to bounce back from the lowest of lows tomorrow.
After losing to the last-placed Titans, they're now up against a tough Dolphins side.
NRL 360 panellist David Riccio spoke to D'Arcy Waldegrave on Sportstalk about how the Wahs can get the win.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Dancy Wildergrave
from News Talks'd be they.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Taught some rubby league, Rugby leg Rugby League twelve and
it's after seven of a Thursday. We go now to
n RL three to sixty panelist, a writer for the
Daily Telegraph and all things at rugby league, and he
seems to be the guy that's always breaking the league
stories as well. He knows somebody, he knows somebody over here,
someone's feeding him some lines. We'll find out more about
(00:33):
what he knows. His name is David Ricky. He joins
us now, good evening.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, good evening to ask.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Good to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Mate, Great to have you on board. The Warrior season
is getting interesting and there is an understatement it doesn't
matter how well you start in this competition, it's how
you end. And now you look at this team and go, well,
is the top four position? Yeah, it's within their range.
But can they slip? What have you made of the
(01:03):
last what six rounds? Five rounds?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Yeah, looks certainly been tough times, there's no denying it.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And it's all about the roster, Darcy.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
It's all about staying healthy and that's just something that
has impacted the Warriors.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Heavily over the past month of football.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
And I suppose you can take it all the way
back to sun Corpse Stadium where Luke Metcalf suffered that
almost innocuous torn ACL when he was tackled off the ball,
and it's really just basically gone downhill ever since. You've
thrown Mitchell Barnett with a torn ACL, to the point
(01:41):
of which we see them running out this weekend with
their entire front row unavailable, including James Fisher, Harris with
a calf.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Injury and Wade Eggan out with a HIA.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
So look, it's tough times for the Warriors as far
as their.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Health is concerned.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
And my only my major concern is that all those
guys that I've mentioned, they're not coming back aside from
Fisher Harris within the next two to three weeks.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Way Egan back next week.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
But met Calf, Barnet, there's such significant he's so influential
on this Warriors lineup that they just haven't adjusted just yet.
It's not over, yes, but the adjustment has been the
big thing for the Warriors that they're still finding their way.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, and Harris Devitas are not there as well, and
this is causing a bit of chaos and the spine
to it agree in the back line as well. You
don't throw your hands up, though, do you in horror?
Because this is the NRL. You've got to have back up.
You've got to keep your players fitt and if they're not,
next man step up. And that's something the team has
done reasonably well so far, isn't it. Do you see
(02:50):
it carrying on? Because they're run for the final right
the way through, it's reasonably good. I mean if they've
got the bulldogs. But short of that, I won't say
easy beats because we said that about the Times last week.
We live to regret that one. But how's their run
looking with what they've got left?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Dave? Yeah, you touched on something there as far as
tapping into the club's depth, and you can't throw your
hands up your spot on and I think the Warriors
have been cognizant of how much talent they do have
down below and when I meant, what I mean is
beneath the one to seventeen of the NRLs side and
it's come through their decision making as well. They were
(03:27):
happy to let Dylan Walker go to Paramatta halfway through
this year, so too Zion Mayu, who was a talented
young Ford coming through. And they did this knowing that
the likes of Jacob Laban, Tannis Dowers, Smith and as
far as Lechahalaesema is concerned, Demitric Valmonger, these young talents
(03:49):
were coming through. And I would argue that those players
I've just mentioned are being asked to play more football
due to the injuries than what would have been planned
by the Warriors.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
But from that opportunity comes experience.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
And yes it's been there's been some harsh lessons for
these fellas, but in the long run it'll work out
because they're getting.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
The harsh lessons and the experience. You touched on it.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Probably four weeks ago, I looked at the Warriors run
home and I declared it one of the best run
homes in the competition. But yet here we are, after
a couple of shaky losses that we're starting to think, hmm,
suddenly there's some hurdles in front of them, and this
Dolphins match will give us a huge indication of whether
(04:38):
they can push forward and jump those incoming hurdles. As
far as the Bulldogs are concerned in coming weeks. So yeah,
it's all in front of the Warriors, but this one's
huge against the Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
What don't just me with these younger players coming through,
it's all well and good. They're basically boys playing against men,
although they've been playing like men. But it is fatigue
because towards the point of the end of the competition,
in the last handful of rounds, the work there expected
to do on a defensive nature, with an attitude basis,
(05:11):
a resource basis. They might want to, but they may
well have run out of steamed. Do you think that's
an overestimation or an underestimation out what they face now?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It ain't die.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I think you're right, and I think I come back
to my point that this is all coming a lot
sooner than what I think the Warriors management.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Would have preferred. But you don't in the NRAL.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
You don't get that timeline choice, you don't get the
pick and choose. You have to dance when you need
to dance, and they're doing that right now, and it's unfortunate.
But we're going to learn a lot about both those
players as individuals and as the team.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And I think you're right. Experience counts. And you know, when.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
We think about the Warriors and the fact that they
made that decision to let Adam fanil Blake return to Sydney,
and how quick they were to sign James Fisher Harris,
and I would dare say all of New Zealand were
doing cartwheels when that news came.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Through because of everything that.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
You know what James Fisher Harris can bring as far
as experience on field and off field. And sure he yes,
he's out injured and he would be providing some off
field leadership at this point in time, but he's on
field leadership to be able to under the goalposts after
the Dolphins have scored, to grab Demitric, to grab Leka
(06:26):
Hellisima came to a picky Jacob labn.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
These younger player grabbed them by the scruff and the
nack and say, boys, follow me.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
It'll be all right, Let's just go with me for
the next fifteen minutes. I'll lead the way that's not
that way be there. And that's his experience and leadership
when the heat is on, of which it will be
on in the next couple of weeks for the Warriors.
It's sorely missed at the moment for the wise.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, that's going to have to be carried by the
likes of Kate Well the Skipper and some of the
more experienced guys like Darlan Martinez, Levsnack. He's not having
the best time of it. I believe we've talked for
what six of minutes, Dave, and we haven't mentioned the
right edge issue that is the buzzword around Wyriy fans
at the moment. We can understand why it's happened as
(07:10):
it is, with various injuries mid games that have a
buried that they had a disastrous effect. But is it
too easy to point at all at ballin and go
it's your fault, you're not playing well? Or is that
a little too simplistic.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Well, look, I think every every player is under pressure.
I think every player plays under a spotlight, and Dylan's
experienced enough to know when when he's not playing to
the best of his ability. I do I do sympathize
because I think it does come down to the combination
changes and if you look at the top teams, and
(07:44):
certainly in my job talking to the two the majority
of the NRL coaches almost on a daily basis, it
is they rely heavily on combinations and and what the
Warriors are going through, it's it's forcing a lot of
change in their back line.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
And with that, the opposition know it.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
The opposition they want to They see a scab and
they pick at it, and if they get a result,
they keep coming back there, and that's unfortunate. Confidence is
a big thing, and when confidence is down, you can
see that with Dylan at the moment.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
They'll keep going at it.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
The key for it is my understanding he's Andrew Webs
has prepared to back Dylan on what he has already
done in the jumper and in the past. But in
saying that does look it does get to a point
in time where you know, maybe it is time for
a change. Whether it's at that point, I don't think so.
Because of everything I've said before. I think someone of
Dylan's experience is key to the Warriors trying to find
(08:42):
the mojo at this point in time.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I'm interested Dave Ricky on who actually runs out on
Friday night Tomorrow night up against the Dolphins. They've got
Chance Nicol Cox there coming in at fullback, Kurt cape
Paul at four, and the centers. It's not covered himself
from glory in there. I can kind of see maybe
Kurt running out as a back roller and then may
be teamed to a piky He's done very well at fullback,
(09:06):
coming in off the bench, and maybe chance ends up
playing a sinth role. Is that out of the question.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I don't think it's out of the question at all.
There is a small tip around. It's you have to
be confirmed, so don't hold me to it.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
That young Eddie Ira Aramia Tulvar has been named in
Jumper eighteen in the Reserves.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
There's a little tip around that we could see him
make his debut.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
So again, if that was to be the case, there
was some concern over a leg injury in relation to
dimetric Valmonger, so we could see another change there. Don't
hold me to it. It's a little tip at this
point in time, but I think to your point, look,
Caple is Cable's key, absolutely key to this warrior's outfit
(09:53):
and his origin series for Queensland.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Remembering Dars that he got called in.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
At a point in time for Queensland that few thought
that he would be the answer and it was exposed
as far as headlines are concerned, at that point in
time when Queensland and New South Wales are just going
back and forth as far.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
As the newspapers are concerned.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Was was Caple's mistackle count Yet he did not when
it mattered most.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
He did not shirk his task. And when the pressure
is on, and it.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Will be on against the Dolphins, this is the guy
that has to help lead the Warriors out of this
current form slub because on his day he's world class
and right now in the situation that that cable has
to have a big one.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
For more from Sports Talk, listen live to News Talks
it'd be from seven pm weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Dancy Wildergrave
from News Talks'd be they.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Taught some rubby league, Rugby leg Rugby League twelve and
it's after seven of a Thursday. We go now to
n RL three to sixty panelist, a writer for the
Daily Telegraph and all things at rugby league, and he
seems to be the guy that's always breaking the league
stories as well. He knows somebody, he knows somebody over here,
someone's feeding him some lines. We'll find out more about
(00:33):
what he knows. His name is David Ricky. He joins
us now, good evening.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, good evening to ask.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Good to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Mate, Great to have you on board. The Warrior season
is getting interesting and there is an understatement it doesn't
matter how well you start in this competition, it's how
you end. And now you look at this team and go, well,
is the top four position? Yeah, it's within their range.
But can they slip? What have you made of the
(01:03):
last what six rounds? Five rounds?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Yeah, looks certainly been tough times, there's no denying it.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And it's all about the roster, Darcy.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
It's all about staying healthy and that's just something that
has impacted the Warriors.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Heavily over the past month of football.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
And I suppose you can take it all the way
back to sun Corpse Stadium where Luke Metcalf suffered that
almost innocuous torn ACL when he was tackled off the ball,
and it's really just basically gone downhill ever since. You've
thrown Mitchell Barnett with a torn ACL, to the point
(01:41):
of which we see them running out this weekend with
their entire front row unavailable, including James Fisher, Harris with
a calf.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Injury and Wade Eggan out with a HIA.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
So look, it's tough times for the Warriors as far
as their.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Health is concerned.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
And my only my major concern is that all those
guys that I've mentioned, they're not coming back aside from
Fisher Harris within the next two to three weeks.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Way Egan back next week.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
But met Calf, Barnet, there's such significant he's so influential
on this Warriors lineup that they just haven't adjusted just yet.
It's not over, yes, but the adjustment has been the
big thing for the Warriors that they're still finding their way.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, and Harris Devitas are not there as well, and
this is causing a bit of chaos and the spine
to it agree in the back line as well. You
don't throw your hands up, though, do you in horror?
Because this is the NRL. You've got to have back up.
You've got to keep your players fitt and if they're not,
next man step up. And that's something the team has
done reasonably well so far, isn't it. Do you see
(02:50):
it carrying on? Because they're run for the final right
the way through, it's reasonably good. I mean if they've
got the bulldogs. But short of that, I won't say
easy beats because we said that about the Times last week.
We live to regret that one. But how's their run
looking with what they've got left?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Dave? Yeah, you touched on something there as far as
tapping into the club's depth, and you can't throw your
hands up your spot on and I think the Warriors
have been cognizant of how much talent they do have
down below and when I meant, what I mean is
beneath the one to seventeen of the NRLs side and
it's come through their decision making as well. They were
(03:27):
happy to let Dylan Walker go to Paramatta halfway through
this year, so too Zion Mayu, who was a talented
young Ford coming through. And they did this knowing that
the likes of Jacob Laban, Tannis Dowers, Smith and as
far as Lechahalaesema is concerned, Demitric Valmonger, these young talents
(03:49):
were coming through. And I would argue that those players
I've just mentioned are being asked to play more football
due to the injuries than what would have been planned
by the Warriors.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
But from that opportunity comes experience.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
And yes it's been there's been some harsh lessons for
these fellas, but in the long run it'll work out
because they're getting.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
The harsh lessons and the experience. You touched on it.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Probably four weeks ago, I looked at the Warriors run
home and I declared it one of the best run
homes in the competition. But yet here we are, after
a couple of shaky losses that we're starting to think, hmm,
suddenly there's some hurdles in front of them, and this
Dolphins match will give us a huge indication of whether
(04:38):
they can push forward and jump those incoming hurdles. As
far as the Bulldogs are concerned in coming weeks. So yeah,
it's all in front of the Warriors, but this one's
huge against the Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
What don't just me with these younger players coming through,
it's all well and good. They're basically boys playing against men,
although they've been playing like men. But it is fatigue
because towards the point of the end of the competition,
in the last handful of rounds, the work there expected
to do on a defensive nature, with an attitude basis,
(05:11):
a resource basis. They might want to, but they may
well have run out of steamed. Do you think that's
an overestimation or an underestimation out what they face now?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It ain't die.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I think you're right, and I think I come back
to my point that this is all coming a lot
sooner than what I think the Warriors management.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Would have preferred. But you don't in the NRAL.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
You don't get that timeline choice, you don't get the
pick and choose. You have to dance when you need
to dance, and they're doing that right now, and it's unfortunate.
But we're going to learn a lot about both those
players as individuals and as the team.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And I think you're right. Experience counts. And you know, when.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
We think about the Warriors and the fact that they
made that decision to let Adam fanil Blake return to Sydney,
and how quick they were to sign James Fisher Harris,
and I would dare say all of New Zealand were
doing cartwheels when that news came.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Through because of everything that.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
You know what James Fisher Harris can bring as far
as experience on field and off field. And sure he yes,
he's out injured and he would be providing some off
field leadership at this point in time, but he's on
field leadership to be able to under the goalposts after
the Dolphins have scored, to grab Demitric, to grab Leka
(06:26):
Hellisima came to a picky Jacob labn.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
These younger player grabbed them by the scruff and the
nack and say, boys, follow me.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
It'll be all right, Let's just go with me for
the next fifteen minutes. I'll lead the way that's not
that way be there. And that's his experience and leadership
when the heat is on, of which it will be
on in the next couple of weeks for the Warriors.
It's sorely missed at the moment for the wise.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, that's going to have to be carried by the
likes of Kate Well the Skipper and some of the
more experienced guys like Darlan Martinez, Levsnack. He's not having
the best time of it. I believe we've talked for
what six of minutes, Dave, and we haven't mentioned the
right edge issue that is the buzzword around Wyriy fans
at the moment. We can understand why it's happened as
(07:10):
it is, with various injuries mid games that have a
buried that they had a disastrous effect. But is it
too easy to point at all at ballin and go
it's your fault, you're not playing well? Or is that
a little too simplistic.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Well, look, I think every every player is under pressure.
I think every player plays under a spotlight, and Dylan's
experienced enough to know when when he's not playing to
the best of his ability. I do I do sympathize
because I think it does come down to the combination
changes and if you look at the top teams, and
(07:44):
certainly in my job talking to the two the majority
of the NRL coaches almost on a daily basis, it
is they rely heavily on combinations and and what the
Warriors are going through, it's it's forcing a lot of
change in their back line.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
And with that, the opposition know it.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
The opposition they want to They see a scab and
they pick at it, and if they get a result,
they keep coming back there, and that's unfortunate. Confidence is
a big thing, and when confidence is down, you can
see that with Dylan at the moment.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
They'll keep going at it.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
The key for it is my understanding he's Andrew Webs
has prepared to back Dylan on what he has already
done in the jumper and in the past. But in
saying that does look it does get to a point
in time where you know, maybe it is time for
a change. Whether it's at that point, I don't think so.
Because of everything I've said before. I think someone of
Dylan's experience is key to the Warriors trying to find
(08:42):
the mojo at this point in time.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I'm interested Dave Ricky on who actually runs out on
Friday night Tomorrow night up against the Dolphins. They've got
Chance Nicol Cox there coming in at fullback, Kurt cape
Paul at four, and the centers. It's not covered himself
from glory in there. I can kind of see maybe
Kurt running out as a back roller and then may
be teamed to a piky He's done very well at fullback,
(09:06):
coming in off the bench, and maybe chance ends up
playing a sinth role. Is that out of the question.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I don't think it's out of the question at all.
There is a small tip around. It's you have to
be confirmed, so don't hold me to it.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
That young Eddie Ira Aramia Tulvar has been named in
Jumper eighteen in the Reserves.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
There's a little tip around that we could see him
make his debut.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
So again, if that was to be the case, there
was some concern over a leg injury in relation to
dimetric Valmonger, so we could see another change there. Don't
hold me to it. It's a little tip at this
point in time, but I think to your point, look,
Caple is Cable's key, absolutely key to this warrior's outfit
(09:53):
and his origin series for Queensland.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Remembering Dars that he got called in.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
At a point in time for Queensland that few thought
that he would be the answer and it was exposed
as far as headlines are concerned, at that point in
time when Queensland and New South Wales are just going
back and forth as far.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
As the newspapers are concerned.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Was was Caple's mistackle count Yet he did not when
it mattered most.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
He did not shirk his task. And when the pressure
is on, and it.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Will be on against the Dolphins, this is the guy
that has to help lead the Warriors out of this
current form slub because on his day he's world class
and right now in the situation that that cable has
to have a big one.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
For more from Sports Talk, listen live to News Talks
it'd be from seven pm weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
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