2008

  1. Nathan Fien

    Nathan Fien

    Nathan Fien debuted for the Cowboys in 2000 and a year later he would be playing off the bench for Queenslands State of Origin squad. After playing 93 games for the Cowboys, Nathan signed with the New Zealand Warriors from season 2005 onwards. He later extended his contract until the end of...
  2. Ruben Wiki

    Ruben Wiki

    Auckland centre (Otahuhu) came to Canberra in 1992 after representing the Junior Kiwis and NZ Maoris. Wiki's form as Mal Meninga's centre partner in 1994 made him one of the hottest properties in the game but the disclosure that he had signed a letter of agreement to play with the Auckland...
  3. Steve Price

    Steve Price

    C’bury officials spotted the young Toowoomba forward playing for Harristown High School in the Commonwealth Bank competition. Steve Price was a reserve forward in the grand final loss to Canberra in 1994 but in the premiership decider against Manly the following year, he produced that ‘something...
  4. Epalahame Lauaki

    Epalahame Lauaki

    Epalahame Lauaki was signed from the Glenora Bears and made his professional and Warriors debut in 2004. During his Warriors career he was used mainly as an interchange player, starting only ten games in sixty nine appearances. A player who was noted for his often brutal tackles he would become...
  5. Evarn Tuimavave

    Evarn Tuimavave

    Made his NRL debut against the Northern Eagles. In early 2003, he was dropped and spent the next twelve months in the Bartercard Cup. In 2007, he played for the Auckland Lions in the NSWRL Premier League. He then cemented his place in the top 25-man squad and was regularly named on the bench in...
  6. Lance Hohaia

    Lance Hohaia

    Waikato halfback had a sensational debut season with the Warriors in 2002 after represented Northern Districts against the touring French team in 2001. Hohaia grabbed the five-eighth role with both hands but an injury late in the season saw him relegated to the interchange bench in the club’s...
  7. Logan Swann

    Logan Swann

    Logan Swann was signed in 1994 as a Warriors development player. He played Warriors Colts in 1995 and Warriors Reserves in 1996. He was selected by his Reserves coach Frank Endicott, who was also coaching the Kiwis, to represent his country in 1996. He stayed with the Warriors for seven...
  8. Russell Packer

    Russell Packer

    Educated at Foxton Beach School and Manawatu College, Packer originally played rugby union from a young age for the junior Foxton rugby club and also for a junior Marist club in Nelson. Packer also played in the Foxton Rugby League Under 14s side at the age of nine years in a curtain raiser...
  9. Jerome Ropati

    Jerome Ropati

    Ropati is of Samoan descent and was educated at St Paul's College, a school noted for its rugby league teams. His junior club was the Marist Saints and he also played for the Marist Richmond Brothers in the Bartercard Cup. In 2002 Ropati was named captain of the Junior Kiwis squad which played...
  10. Sam Rapira

    Sam Rapira

    The older brother of Steve, Sam Rapira attended Hamilton Boys' High School and played for the Hukanui club. He later played for the Waicoa Bay Stallions in the Bartercard Cup. Rapira first made the Junior Kiwis in 2004, and played for them again in 2005. Also in 2005 he was named in the New...
  11. Ben Matulino

    Ben Matulino

    Signed out of Wellington, Ben Matulino made an immediate impression with the Vodafone Junior Warriors in the inaugural NYC competition in 2008. The former St Bernard's College student quickly earned promotion to the NRL, going on to appear in each of the Vodafone Warriors' remaining 15 matches...
  12. Simon Mannering

    Simon Mannering

    After completing his high school education at Nelson College in 2004, Simon was signed by the Vodafone Warriors and made his debut in 2005. He soon became a regular feature of the line-up, playing in all 26 matches for the Warriors in 2007 and also appearing in each of the Kiwis' six tests. He...
  13. Manu Vatuvei

    Manu Vatuvei

    Born in New Zealand and bred in Otara, Auckland. Attended Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate and played for the Otara Scorpions and Otahuhu Leopards in Auckland Rugby League competitions before playing for the Otahuhu Ellerslie Leopards in the Bartercard Cup. ‘The Beast’ was scouted at the age of 16...
  14. Player Ben Matulino

    Ben Matulino watching the wellington game today, for me he stood out, and just checking tha tvnz website, i see we just signed him. hes a massive second rower, 18, hes got everything. heres the link.. https://tvnz.co.nz/view/sport_sub_cat_skin/sport_league_index_group great news for the club.
  15. Player Ryan Shortland

    Ryan Shortland Just remembered he's NZ Maori... what's he doing next year? What do you guys reckon? Has he got potential to develop somewhere else and play for the Kiwis or NZ Maori?
  16. General Warriors Awards 2008

    I was watching NRL TEAMS on Fox sports last night and they said they will be broadcasting NRL on fox tonight from New Zealand due to Ruben Wiki's Immortal Induction. I haven't heard anything about this from anywhere else, can anybody back in Aucks confirm the details? Surely it's not the RLW...
  17. Post Match NRL 2008 - Round 19 - Bulldogs vs Warriors Post Match Discussion

    Tate played amazing. (Double that man's salary!) Hohaia, Mannering were outstanding. Fai is combining well. Solomona had a dandy. Even Swann was solid and his offloads were second only to Tate's. What a game, so many positive aspects until Cleary tinkered with our halves, (but that's...
  18. Post Match NRL 2008 Round 16 - Tigers vs Warriors

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/4/story.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10519030 Warriors 28 Tigers 26 The Tigers lost an entertaining stunner in front of an expectant home crowd at Sydney's historic Leichhardt Oval yesterday but afterwards lined up to applaud Ruben Wiki's achievement of 300...
  19. General NRL 2008 Round 11 - Roosters vs Warriors TEAM LIST

    Just heard it through Vodafone One Tribe. Steve Price has just finished training and has been given the all clear to play tomorrow against the Roosters. :clap2: :clap2: :clap2:
  20. General NRL 2008 Round 10 - Panthers vs Warriors TEAM LIST

    NRL 2008 Round 10 - Panthers vs Warriors TEAM LIST Warriors Team v. Panthers 1 Lance Hohaia 2 Michael Crockett 3 Jerome Ropati 4 Ryan Shortland 5 Patrick Ah Van 6 Michael Witt 7 Grant Rovelli 8 Sam Rapira 9 Nathan Fien 10 Evarn Tuimavave 11 Simon Mannering 12 Epalahame Lauaki 13 Michael Luck...