Ep 23: That's My Team LIVE! Rd 13 team + preview, RTS injury - with Sam Ackerman
TWL 2026: Ep 23 - Fix Up, Look Sharp feat. Sam Ackerman
Veteran NZ league reporter Sam Ackerman joins Will and Brad to break down the win over the Dragons and take a LIVE look at the Round 13 team list ahead of the Warriors’ top-of-the-table blockbuster against the Panthers.
Plus an RTS tribute following his injury blow, the ongoing TMM vs LM debate, another NO UGLY Salty giveaway and an Aussie journeyman for this week’s PlaceMakers Warriors Legend, and some great insights from Sam after a quarter of a century in the NZ sports media game.
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Salty moment of the week: it was great to have league aficionado Sam Ackerman on the poddy, and I loved his insight into the game and how far the code has progressed, however, I was as salty as the outdoor Domian Salt mountains at Mt Maunganui on his savage review of the Dragons win. Although it wasn’t pretty, we had an 2-8 record there and historically (and spiritually) those are the games the Warriors would always drop, there was definitely more good than bad in that win, but Sammy made it out to be something awful.