The 2021 season and Nathan Brown era started in super-promising fashion via a gritty 19-6 victory over Gold Coast Titans. It ended in a pathetic, season-worst 44-0 defeat to the same opponents, who in turn tore eighth spot away from… Read More ›
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TWL’S TAB STATS TALK: FINAL-ROUND FOLLIES
Warriors fans threw their calculators and abacuses out the window last Friday night as their team’s mathematical finals hopes were officially erased in a familiar freefall against Canberra. The 28-16 loss came after the Warriors shot out to a 16-0… Read More ›
TOWNSEND AND AFOA INJURED, CHT AND JAZZ RETURN FOR DEAD-RUBBER
Via Warriors Media Injuries have forced head coach Nathan Brown to make more changes for the Vodafone Warriors’ season-ending 25th-round NRL match against the Gold Coast Titans at Cbus Super Stadium in Robina on Sunday (2.00pm kick-off local time; 4.00pm… Read More ›
TWL’S TAB STATS TALK: DO THE MATH
It’s that all-too-familiar time of the season. The Warriors’ finals hopes are still alive, but their fate is largely out their hands. Here’s the multi-faceted equation over the last two rounds that can deliver a Top 8 finish for the… Read More ›
TWL’S TAB STATS TALK: WARRIORS AIM TO DEFY COHESION CORRELATION
The Warriors have kept their unlikely NRL finals hopes alive by winning three matches in a row for the first time since their watershed 5-0 start to 2018. Now just two points adrift of the top half, Nathan Brown’s ragtag… Read More ›
DWZ, SIRONEN NAMED TO RETURN AS WARRIORS CHASE FOUR STRAIGHT
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak is one of three frontline players back in the frame for his 150th career appearance when the Vodafone Warriors face Brisbane in Sunday’s 23rd-round NRL contest at Suncorp Stadium (4.05pm kick-off local time; 6.05pm NZT). After a false… Read More ›
TWL’S TAB STATS: WALSH’S RECORD-BREAKING ROOKIE FEATS
Written off a fortnight ago, the short-handed Warriors have kept their finals flame flickering with gutsy 18-16 wins over Wests Tigers and Cronulla. Neither victory was pretty – but overturning 10-point halftime deficits in both represents a distinct shift for… Read More ›
CHANEL, FORWARD TRIO RETURN FOR SHARKS SHOWDOWN
Via Warriors Media First-choice players Chanel Harris-Tavita, Addin Fonua-Blake, Matt Lodge and Josh Curran are all back for the Vodafone Warriors’ 21st-round NRL encounter with the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on Saturday (3.00pm local time; 5.00pm NZT)…. Read More ›
TWL’S TAB STATS TALK: THE RTS EFFECT
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck’s decision to pull up stumps on his NRL career six weeks early – and the club’s call to allow him to walk – is another sign the Warriors have put the cue in the rack as far as… Read More ›
TWL’S TAB STATS TALK: NRL’S LATE-SEASON REVIVALS
The Warriors are on a six-match losing streak – the equal-worst of any team this season (last-placed Canterbury lost its first six) – heading into Saturday’s daunting NRL Round 19 assignment against South Sydney on the Sunshine Coast. But after… Read More ›