And here we are yet again as I encourage my fellow Warriors fans and curious readers to stay mellow, stay away from the rollercoaster. Regular readers will know all about my mission to destroy the rollercoaster of emotion in supporting the Warriors, it's been a trend in these pages all season and I don't think there's any clearer example of how we create our own rollercoaster in supporting the Warriors.

Last week, the Warriors suffered a big loss to the Storm. Sure, the effort of the lads was upsetting, but the Storm are currently in 3rd, tied with the Cowboys, Broncos and Sharks on 14 points. The Storm just repeated their Anzac Day dose against the Titans this weekend, point being that the Storm are very, very good.

The Warriors are a mid-table team (in both perception and reality) and they beat the Dragons, who are in a similar situation. Losing in such fashion to the Storm shouldn't really have caused the ruckus it did and beating the Dragons at home isn't really reason for celebration. Both results are a reflection of the NRL right now, so fair enough.

Of course, the backdrop of the week's dramas leading into Sunday's game apparently made the win all the more sweeter. Missing all those certified first-graders and all, but just as I've encourage y'all to avoid the highs and lows of the rollercoaster, this season I've questioned the true value of many of our veterans and in a weird twist, I kinda think that Sunday's win and how the team performed, reflects poorly on coach Andrew McFadden.

James Gavet started the season and I thought he was one of our better forwards with limited opportunity, before he was cut to reserve grade. Gavet, like Jazz Tevaga and John Palavi display a level of determination/enthusiasm/energy that has been lacking all season, yet coach McFadden has keep Gavet and Tevaga in reserve grade while Palavi has barely been given an opportunity.

Why did it take a 'crisis' for these guys to be given a run?

Why was Konrad Hurrell selected on the bench for a few weeks, playing 10 minutes (if that) while Gavet, Tevaga and Palavi were in reserve grade?

Why did we see a Albert Vete, Sam Lisone and Charlie Gubb start at lock previously while Palavi was in reserve grade?

I mean, every time I've seen Mathew Allwood play for the Warriors, he looks like he's desperate to make a mark and I've never really been left with a bad impression by him. He never really got a decent dig, until this week.

This isn't a 'pick on coach Cappy' rant, I just get a bit confused about ol' Cappy sometimes ... alright, a lot of the time. I guess, like many of you young players, Cappy is still learning the craft.

All of the players promoted in the wake of the dramas, did pretty damn well and we're now presented with the funky situation where the players who were dropped must now prove that they are better and/or more dedicated at being great NRL players than the new kids.

Gavet brings a level of mongrel that no other Warriors player has, but he combines it very nicely with effort. He's similar to Charlie Gubb in that he'll fly around, chopping blokes down and making repeated efforts, great, we need more of that.

Allwood, he's all good.

Tevaga is a young player who is as tough as nails in the middle of the field. If the Warriors have cultural problems and all of that shit, then a young player like Tevaga who made 41 tackles and averaged 7.8m per-carry, should be celebrated. If the Warriors did have such cultural problems (blown up by dramatic media) then a player like Tevaga wouldn't exist, he would have been tainted by this horrible culture by now.

Instead, I see Tevaga as a phenomenal talent and in Tevaga, Gavet, Gubb, Palavi and Toafofoa Sipley, I see young players who tick all the boxes of rugged NRL forwards.

Palavi is a model citizen and toiled hard in the middle of the field and his main attribute is his effort/attitude.

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Sipley is well know to Under-20's observers and is one of the best up and coming forwards at Mt Smart, which was understandable after watching his brief (grr Cappy) stint on the park. He's a big unit and made 45m off only 4 carries thanks to a rather epic line break and I don't see any attitude problems with him, in fact, everything I've heard about him is immensely positive and he's a future leader.

Shaun Lane wasn't amazing, I'd put that down to jitters and hopefully he'll settle into his work. We all saw how big he is and I still have visions of him roaming out wide, slipping offloads out to Shaun Johnson etc.

This game was about the opportunity presented to the fringe players and they all snatched their opportunity, making the most of it, showing that there's depth at Mt Smart ... once again, good depth must be a product of a horrible culture right?

Two players really stood out from the group that was in this team since it was named on Tuesday. First is David Fusitua who is a genuine freak and if you were a scout/coach of an NRL team that could be in the market for a fullback, you'd probably be paying close attention to Fusitua's form.

Fusitua is behind Roger Tuivasa-Sheck and I've now got him ranked 2nd in our fullback depth as Tuimoala Lolohea can cover more positions. Don't get it twisted though, Fusitua deserves to be a starting fullback in the NRL every week and shouldn't be sitting behind anyone, he's a gun. The best comparison is probably Greg Inglis as Fusitua is huge which enables him to run over people, while also being light-footed enough to slip in-between defenders. When Fusitua gets the ball as part of a backline move, he's athletic enough to be a nightmare to tackle and close to the line, if he opts to run, he's almost unstoppable.

However, what we saw against the Dragons was Fusitua's passing and this got me the most excited of any little moment in this game. Any NRL fullback needs to be able to add the finishing touch to the work of his halves inside him, which both Tuivasa-Sheck and Lolohea do extremely well, but so does Fusitua.

Given very little time to sum the situation up, Fusitua merely flicks his wrists and throws a beautiful cut-out ball across the face of Solomone Kata for Allwood to score. I love the Fus.

The other bloke is Issac Luke, who paid for his poor start to the season by being cut from the Kiwis. Luke has consistently improved though and anyone who is overly critical of Luke, clearly doesn't watch him play or pay him any attention. Luke ran 7 times for 44m in the first two games of the season and since then he hasn't slipped below 7 carries for 57m (vs Storm last week) in a game.

vs Knights: 9 runs for 60m.

vs Roosters: 14 runs for 127m.

vs Sea Eagles 8 runs for 71m.

vs Bulldogs: 9 runs for 74m

vs Storm: 7 runs for 57m.

vs Dragons: 12 runs for 109m.

Luke is settling into his work with the Warriors very nicely and it's rather obvious that when Luke runs the footy, he does damage as the two games in which he's run more than 10 times, he's run for over 100m.

If an alien was observing the hooplah around the Warriors, they'd think that they were on par with the Knights. Our Warriors are 10th on 8 points, the same number of points as the Panthers who are 9th. Things could be a lot worse folks and I kinda like the fact that the Warriors are nicely poised for a crack through the Origin period. There's been far more negative noise about the Warriors than positive noise, which could be great as teams are always trying to down-play expectations to fly under the radar.