The Warriors are back in the NRL finals for the first time since 2011! They bungled their first opportunity to seal their place in the post-season via an agonising loss to Canterbury on Sunday, but they grasped their second chance… Read More ›
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TWL RD 20 WRAP: WARRIORS SELF-DESTRUCT ON THE GOLD COAST
After regaining respect with a rousing win over Brisbane and an honourable loss to Melbourne, the Warriors’ 2018 campaign is in uncomfortable limbo once again courtesy of a humiliating 36-12 defeat to 12th-placed Gold Coast Titans. The Warriors lost after… Read More ›
TWL RD 19 WRAP: STORM HOLD OFF GALLANT, WASTEFUL WARRIORS
The Warriors belatedly proved they can go toe-to-toe with the premiership’s cream, but ultimately their 12-6 loss to Melbourne Storm was an opportunity lost in 80 scrappy, disjointed minutes at Mount Smart Stadium. The hosts were physical and gutsy; they… Read More ›
TWL RD 18 WRAP: BOUNCE-BACK WARRIORS BRUTALISE BRONCOS
The Warriors indicated last week’s season-worst loss to Penrith was a minor blip rather than a precursor to a familiar late-season collapse, routing the Brisbane Broncos 26-6 in a magnificent ship-steadying performance. On the back of a bruising engine-room effort,… Read More ›
TWL RD 17 WRAP: PANTHERS’ KIDS DESTROY WEAK WARRIORS
We were smug pre-match about the absence of NSW big guns Maloney, Cleary, Peachey and Campbell-Gillard, but we – and the Warriors – should have been more concerned with lesser-known threats Luai, Kikau and May. Depleted Penrith routed a diabolical… Read More ›
TWL RD 12 WRAP: WARRIORS UP TO RUCK ALL AGAINST RAMPANT RABBITS
The Warriors’ 2018 revival has been underpinned by vastly-improved fitness, defensive steel and engine-room grit, but South Sydney’s complete and utter domination of the ruck was the grim tale of a 30-10 Mount Smart mauling. It was men against boys… Read More ›
TWL RD 5 WRAP: STREAK ALIVE AT FIVE AS WARRIORS WRANGLE COWBOYS
And that’s five! The euphoric ride that is the start to the Warriors’ 2018 campaign continued with a thoroughly-deserved 22-12 victory over a North Queensland Cowboys side that had no answers to the hosts’ relentless effort with and without the… Read More ›
TWL RD 4 WRAP: DEPLETED WARRIORS ROUT ROOSTERS
If someone had said pre-game the Warriors would pump the Roosters 30-6 without Shaun Johnson, and with Agnatius Paasi and Bunty Afoa as their starting prop pairing, you’d assume they were on acid or stronger. If they’d said pre-season the… Read More ›