
Superfan stung by Warriors
It's the bane of sports fans everywhere - their favourite club changing kit yearly, forcing them to spend big dollars to look up-to-date.
It's the bane of sports fans everywhere - their favourite club changing kit yearly, forcing them to spend big dollars to look up-to-date.
Neither the Kiwis nor the Warriors have ever won at Eden Park and the Warriors came up agonisingly short 16-14 against the Roosters tonight.
Self-doubt is crippling the Warriors from what I observed in the round one game against Parramatta.
The players have clearly been put through a difficult pre-season, and that's encouraging because there is no substitute for hard work.
Professional sportsmen each have different motivations and for Konrad Hurrell it's 1996km away.
In the bowels of the Warriors' training base at Mt Smart Stadium, they have created what they call the War Room.
The Warriors have been handed a break with halfback Shaun Johnson being passed fit to play against Parramatta in their NRL season opener on Saturday night.
The Warriors have put together a motivational video that opens with images of them putting a line in the sand around what happened last year.
He's a part-time DJ, a prolific user of social media and could be the surprise key man for the Warriors.
New coach Matthew Elliott is holding off predicting how well the Warriors will bounce back from a forgettable 2012 season.
It seems some people found our media conference last July, where we outlined an ambitious new vision for the Vodafone NZ Warriors, quite controversial.
Eric Watson jokes that he'd like to tow New Zealand into the Mediterranean so that he can pop across from London at weekends.
Stephen Kearney admits the departure of Darren Lockyer in 2012 left a bigger than expected hole at the Broncos.
Dane Nielsen, the Warriors' star recruit, makes his debut in an NRL trial against Penrith at Hamilton this evening as the club sets about wiping away the 2012 horrors.
He's confident the Warriors won't be implicated in the drug scandal rocking Australian sport.
Diminutive playmaker Pita Godinet and strapping super utility Carlos Tuimavave would appear to have the most to play for when the Warriors begin their trials' campaign.