With their season on the field finished for 2018, Aotearoa Warriors had a fantastic week off the field as they followed up a delightful evening at the Dally M awards with news of Bunty Afoa and Jazz Tevaga re-signing with the club.
Sio Siua Taukeiaho was on fire for the Roosters last week and in the Grand Final, he’ll come up against a Melbourne Storm #KiwiNRL crew who ooze funk. There are plenty of #KiwiNRL wahine in the NRL Women’s Grand Final as well, making it a glorious #KiwiNRL Sunday.
Newcastle Knights have officially snared their big signing off Aotearoa Warriors. Yup, that's right; the Knights lured Mason Lino across the ditch.
As I went deep into the Issac Luke contract situation, it became clear that Luke's bung shoulder wouldn't just have an impact on his NRL career.
This week the #KiwiNRL Notebook turns the focus on the reserve grade grand finals in Queensland and New South Wales, both of which featured an abundance of #KiwiNRL funk.
As of early Monday morning, Issac Luke is still a free agent and appears to be stuck between Aotearoa Warriors and Newcastle Knights
After rocking through the Aotearoa Warriors player debriefs for the backs, we now move into the forwards.
Tonight the Aotearoa Warriors women's team take on Brisbane Broncos, the undefeated Brisbane Broncos in a game that isn't quite must-win but damn close to it.
29 tokos have been named in an extended Tonga squad for their Test vs Australia in Auckland and while it features all the usual suspects of Tonga's dominant run, there are also a few funky selections thrown in.
The kid from Tokoroa Joseph Manu will be marking Greg Inglis in an NRL semi-final, Nelson Asofa-Solomona makes his timely comeback for Melbourne Storm on the bench and Honey Hireme is dominating the Women’s NRL.
Starting with the backs, the Diary Of An Aotearoa Warriors Fan is going to roll through the Warriors players and debrief their 2018 season.
Two more teams have been knocked out of the 2018 NRL Finals, with both Penrith Panthers and St George Illawara Dragons relying heavily on their #KiwiNRL players in their losses over the weekend as well as throughout the season.
One team in the Women's NRL Premiership is undefeated and while Brisbane Broncos may not have as much #KiwiNRL flavour as Aotearoa Warriors, the Broncos boast the biggest wahine crew of the three Australian clubs.
There wasn't much to remember about Aotearoa's 2017 World Cup campaign, other than Roger Tuivasa-Sheck continuing his climb towards his true potential.
Before cracking into the team lists for this weekend's second round of NRL Finals footy for the lads and the second round of Women's NRL, a few #KiwiNRL young guns slipped into the Rugby League Player's Association Dream Team at the RLPA Awards last night.
Two teams have been knocked out of the 2018 NRL Finals, with Brisbane Broncos and Aotearoa Warriors losing their Elimination Finals in similar circumstance.
As hard as Aotearoa Warriors tried, as much as their attitude and effort was at the level required of Finals footy, the execution was not in the loss to Penrith Panthers.
Two games between Aotearoa Warriors and Penrith Panthers this season; one almighty win for Penrith at home and a slick win for the Warriors at Mt Smart
Brandon Smith is back on the bench for Melbourne Storm, Jordan Pereira’s fabulous 2018 continues for the Dragons and we’ve got the #KiwiNRL wahine ready for their first game.
The 2018 NRL season has finished for eight teams and while the focus now switches to Finals footy, this week's #KiwiNRL Notebook is all about those who are now chillin'.