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(Main photo: Te Maire Martin showed plenty of promise before injury struck. Credit: photosport.nz).
He hasn’t been seen in the NRL since April, but Penrith rookie Te Maire Martin needs to be in the final 17 for the Kiwis come October and November.
With a lack of established Kiwi hookers and...
After three years as assistant coach, David Kidwell has been appointed to guide the NZ Kiwis into next year’s Rugby League World Cup as head coach.
Kidwell (Kiwi #679) will fill the role on a full-time basis, replacing predecessor Stephen Kearney, who was named Vodafone Warriors head coach...
(Main photo: Stephen Kearney. Credit: photosport.nz).
New Zealand Warriors managing director Jim Doyle has confirmed long-serving Kiwi coach Stephen Kearney is returning to the club as its new head coach on a three-year deal.
The appointment headlines a major revamp of the club’s NRL coaching...
(Main photo: Joseph Manu fights for a ball on first-grade debut v the Warriors. Credit: photosport.nz).
New Zealand products Kalyn Ponga, Brandon Smith and Joseph Manu are among the players honoured in the 2016 Holden Cup Team of the Year.
The team was announced at Monday’s 2016 NRL Telstra...
Twenty-three players have been named in the first instalment of NZ Kiwis wider-squad selections for the test against Australia next month and subsequent Four Nations campaign in England.
The group, drawn from clubs that did not make the 2016 NRL playoffs, features eight who have yet to play for...
If the Warriors’ Board had made a couple of different decisions a few years ago Nathan Cleary could well be displaying his talents at Mt Smart Stadium every week, rather than Pepper Stadium in Penrith. (Main photo: Tuimoala Lolohea fends away Nathan Cleary. Credit: photosport.nz).
Had dad Ivan...
Sam Lisone is two years into a promising NRL career, and is forging a reputation as a rugged and aggressive front-rower who can also play through the back row. A co-captain of the premiership-winning Junior Warriors squad in 2014, Lisone has represented the Junior Kiwis and Toa Samoa at...
New Zealand will host seven Rugby League World Cup 2017 games, with the Kiwis potentially playing home fixtures right up to the final at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium on December 2. (Photo: photosport.nz).
In the official draw announced today, the world #1 NZ team, looking to recapture the trophy...
There is nothing quite like the old days, so sit back and take a look as kiwileaguecentral.com checks out this week in Warriors history. (Main photo: photosport.nz).
Gubb City is born – 2013
After being moved on from the Warriors only a few years earlier, prop Charlie Gubb returned to the Kiwi...
Kiwi utility Thomas Leuluai will leave the New Zealand Warriors at the end of this year to link up with Wigan in the Super League, after being granted a release from the last year of his contract on compassionate grounds.
As part of the Wigan deal the 31-year-old will take up a role as an...
New Zealand Rugby League has made Sir Peter Leitch a life member at its annual meeting in Auckland today, recognising his passionate support of the game across the past five decades.
Sir Peter (aka “The Mad Butcher”) began his association with rugby league through the Mangere East Hawks during...
His road to the NRL has taken longer than planned, and it’s been a frustrating journey at times. But this week 24-year-old Patrick Sipley finally achieved his goal of earning an NRL contract, joining brother Toafofoa in the Warriors’ first-grade squad for 2017.
Kiwileaguecentral.com sat down...
There is nothing quite like the old days, so sit back and take a look as kiwileaguecentral.com checks out this week in Warriors history. (Main photo: photosport.nz).
Courageous Kevin puts win before body – 2010
As the final minutes of the Warriors’ clash with the Roosters in Christchurch...
As Sione Faumuina sat back and watched the headlines unfolding from his home in Brisbane, the former Warrior and Kiwi international saw too many familiar stories popping up, and knew he wanted to help.
Cue a tell-all book, The Second Phase, documenting Faumuina’s own battles against alcoholism...
The (almost) greatest comeback ever
Many Warriors fans of a certain vintage will remember this match as the one that got away.
Wellington’s Westpac Stadium hosted the Canterbury Bulldogs in Round 8 of 2001. The Warriors had started the season in patchy style with three wins and four losses. It...
Seven days ago Tuimoala Lolohea was preparing for a major positional change from the wing to five-eighth, and following Roger Tuivasa-Sheck’s season-ending injury he should be getting ready to do it again, with eyes on a permanent move to fullback.
While Warriors coach Andrew McFadden said last...
The beginning of a legend
Parramatta Stadium played host to the 1995 Warriors in Round 7 of the Australian Rugby League competition. Andy Platt, a Great Britain prop forward who played 25 Tests, made his debut from the bench that day.
Platt was a grizzled, tough campaigner who had great...
Many New Zealand league fans were disillusioned to hear news this week of the Warriors sending Otahuhu boy Raymond Faitala-Mariner off to the Bulldogs in favour of Australian forward Shaun Lane.
In some ways that’s understandable.
The Warriors are New Zealand’s NRL team after all and have a...
Unless you were an avid follower of the Junior Warriors over the last couple of years you could be forgiven for not knowing who Jazz Tevaga was when he was called up to make his NRL debut in Round 3 this year.
His rise was so rapid he didn’t even rate himself a chance of making first grade this...
Original story by Will Evans – Canterbury Rugby League
Jazz Tevaga added his name to the list of Christchurch-born rugby league players to crack the NRL on March 20, making a memorable debut at hooker for the Warriors in their brave Round 3 loss to Melbourne Storm at Mt Smart Stadium.
While he...