Dylan Brown is one of busiest runners and tacklers for NRL halves, not bad for a 20-year-old lad from Northland. The Roosters have plenty of star-power, don’t overlook the work of Isaac Liu and Joseph Manu who will be key figures vs Canberra Raiders.
Aotearoa's rugby league depth has been a brewing topic throughout the 2020 season and while much of this is because of waves of young talent flowing into the NRL, there is a bit of a graduation process going down higher up the depth chart.
How clutch can CNK be in the Finals for Canberra Raiders? Plus, Siliva Havili’s bench role, Broncos women almost having as many Kiwi-NRL wahine as NZ Warriors and Nelson Asofa-Solomona is simmering for Melbourne Storm.
All in. Late last year, Aotearoa Warriors broke into the modern ways as one of the few NRL clubs to offer basic Youtube content. The slogan for the Warriors outlined in the video content back in late 2019 now feels rather divine.
Jordan Riki and Corey Harawira-Naera are looking at starting edge forward gigs for 2021, Sonny Bill Williams the passing big man and all the other Kiwi-NRL funk from the final round of NRL footy.
In 2015, Melbourne Storm announced that they would establish a Queensland base on the Sunshine Coast where they would have an academy and churn out teams to compete in Queensland competitions.
In 2017 Hayze Perham and Tom Ale played 1st 15 rugby union and rugby league for Rotorua Boys High School, now it’s 2020 and they will play together for Aotearoa Warriors. Plus, Steven Marsters, Roosters offloads without SBW and the loss of Dylan Brown for Parramatta.
Among all the kerfuffle of 2020, a young lad from Ngaruawahia in the Waikato made a very quiet shift from the Bulldogs to Sea Eagles.
Aotearoa Warriors face a niggly proposition in trying to defeat Cronulla Sharks tomorrow evening, while the Sharks are clinging to their top-eight spot and are without two of their key players.
There is an abundance of NRL centres from Aotearoa these days, Samoa may have a funky play-making duo and Shaun Johnson hasn’t been playing but he’s still leading the NRL in try assists.
NRL seasons can be a wee bit long, perhaps a bit too long but never mind that as a long NRL season opens up various grooves for wise NRL coaches to work through and none do this better than Sydney Roosters.
In the glorious way that chaos often does, the mayhem of 2020 has seen New Zealand Warriors stumble upon a rather nice footy formula over the past month and a bit.
Unfortunately, 2020 is also a year of attrition and while we are all trying to get through this crazy ol' year, for NRL teams it's about staying healthy as injuries ravage most squads.
Matthew Timoko is named on the Canberra Raiders bench, making him the 12th #KiwiNRL debutant of 2020 and that’s pretty crazy. Plus some monster Dylan Brown stats, while Poasa Fa’amausili, Sitili Tupouniua and Isaac Liu doing great work for Roosters, Daejarn Asi is back for Cowboys and Mason Lino’s only playing vs NZ Warriors this year.
ving touched on #KiwiNRL debutants every week with the Monday Morning Dummy Half, it's all about the #KiwiNRL debutants after round 15 as Steven Marsters and Paul Turner added themselves to hefty list of 2020 #KiwiNRL debutants.
It’s a #KiwiNRL Play-Making Fest. No Jahrome Hughes this weekend, but we still have Dylan Brown vs Storm, Jarome Luai vs Shaun Johnson, Benji Marshall vs Roosters and Kieran Foran sneaking his way up the try assisting rankings - maybe a few more vs NZ Warriors’ Aotearoa halves duo of Chanel Harris-Tavita and Kodi Nikorima?
Cameron Smith and Josh Hodgson are known as the best hookers in the NRL, not explosive nor overly dynamic but perhaps the craftiest workers around the ruck.
Amazing times for the #KiwiNRL Encyclopedia as Jordan Riki steps up for a debut with Brisbane Broncos and not only is this yet another #KiwiNRL debut, there’s plenty of young Aotearoa ballers doing great things in the NRL.
Recent Aotearoa Warriors news, specifically Phil Gould's appointment with the club should have rugby league fans around Aotearoa and the Pacific Islands rather excited.
Having wiggled through this journey of the Aotearoa Warriors with youz, the whole process of the past few years feels like a growth stage and then the emergence of the concentrated juice.