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What is This Warriors Life?
This Warriors Life is North Canterbury-based rugby league journalist, author and historian Will Evans (below right), ireverent Dunedin-based West Coast native and builder Brad Larking (below left), and Sydney-based mystery man and rugby league analyst nonpareil Fonzie.
Whether you’ve been on board since 1995 or have jumped on the bandwagon more recently, supporting the Warriors is not for the fainthearted – it’s a constant rollercoaster of emotions, within the 80 minutes and across each season.
There’s been some triumphs and, of course, more than our share of heartache and disappointment. But our love for the club (and the dream of a maiden premiership) keeps us coming back for more.
This Warriors Life was established in 2018 to celebrate and feed that passion, providing news, interviews, opinion, features and history for Warriors fans, through our long-running podcast, and in-depth weekly analysis articles and special features.
We aim to inflame discussion and debate. We’ll trumpet our victories and mourn our defeats, analysing what right or wrong and what needs to change. But whether we’ve rolled an NRL heavyweight or blown a lead against a premiership cellar-dweller, we’ll front up week after week, looking ahead to the next game.
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