Warriors winger Reece Walsh has called on his teammates to look good in the mirror after falling in their seventh loss in eight weeks with a 44-12 thrashing of Manly.
The Warriors put on a horror show in the first half to fall 26-0 at one point and never recovered and Walsh could not hide his disappointment after the game.
“It simply came to our notice then. We just go there and sabotage ourselves, “Walsh said.
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“There is no other way to say it. We put pressure on ourselves and, you know, we keep doing it every week.
“She is OK. We keep shooting ourselves in the foot. There are only patches where we don’t do well. We make it very easy for the other team. It’s really frustrating. “
Walsh challenged his teammates to ask themselves some brutally difficult questions to try to turn around his season, which is vital support in the middle of the year.
“We just have to go home, look in the mirror and ask ourselves,‘ Do we want to be here? ’” Walsh said.
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The Warriors were thrashed seven times. Source: Getty Images
‘Do we want to be trying for our teammates?’ At the moment, the things we’re throwing away, we’re just not working for our teammates on our side, it’s first grade and it’s not good enough. to others. “
Braith Anasta praised Walsh for asking some honest questions to his team as they fell to nine defeats and four wins in the middle of the competition.
“Obviously it’s hard to interview the young man after that. I mean, what can you say? He knows how disappointing they were,” Anasta said.
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“It hurts, and it’s hard to even ask him where he’s gone wrong, because I don’t even think he’ll have the answers himself, right?”
Benji Marshall’s Walsh had to be helped off the pitch as an injury meant he was unable to finish the game.
“Obviously, you could see how disappointed he was and how much it hurt,” Marshall said.
“I’ve been in this situation. Answering these questions when you’re excited to lose is very difficult.
“So I heard him talk about some of the things [going on] next to it, sometimes things come out that you don’t expect.
“It would be a tough night for the whole side, but good for him to get ahead and take charge of the performance.”