The Warriors have ended a dreadful campaign on a searing high note, staging an unlikely late comeback to stun top-four team Canberra 24-20 at GIO Stadium. Trailing by eight with time ticking down, the visitors were categorically robbed by an… Read More ›
The Auckland Warriors and Canberra Raiders clashed before even taking the field against one another, but ultimately went on to forge a fascinating and fluctuating rivalry marked by semi-final classics, golden point thrillers and home-ground hoodoos. Overall record: Played… Read More ›
It sums up the Warriors’ season that we’re talking about a 31-10 loss as a vastly-improved effort. The South Sydney Rabbitohs were convincing, deserved winners, but they were forced to work hard by a Warriors side chastened by two heavy… Read More ›
The Warriors and South Sydney Rabbitohs have qualified for the finals in the same season just twice, but the clubs have still managed to produce some of the NRL era’s most extraordinary regular season matches during a wildly fluctuating rivalry…. Read More ›
Judging by the Warriors’ season-ending 42-16 loss to Cronulla, Cameron George was right on the money in questioning some of the players’ effort levels – a public broadside that created a fair bit of controversy midweek. In comparison, Kodi Nikorima… Read More ›
Cronulla’s early and recent periods of dominance bookended a decade where the Warriors held the upper hand, leaving the Sharks with a five-win advantage after a rivalry spanning 23 seasons. Incredibly, almost a third of the teams’ 37 encounters have… Read More ›
The Warriors’ already-slim playoffs hopes took a major nosedive courtesy of a 42-6 thrashing at the hands of Sydney Roosters. The desperate visitors scored the opening try inside the first five minutes but barely fired a shot thereafter. They managed… Read More ›
The Warriors are one of the few current teams to have crafted a winning record against the Sydney Roosters, but the Tricolours proved too strong when the Auckland-based club qualified for a historic grand final appearance in 2002. The teams… Read More ›
The Warriors have yet again found a way to confound the rugby league world. Just a week after an inexplicably listless 34-point loss to Canberra, the under-fire club overcame a host of injuries, a record-equalling home losing streak, and a… Read More ›
The likes of Cameron Smith, Johnathan Thurston, Cooper Cronk, Darren Lockyer, Andrew Johns, Brad Fittler and Allan Langer have terrorised the Warriors intermittently over the years, but no opposition player has quite the same résumé of dominance against the club… Read More ›
