Off Season 2024/25

[Matua]

He's got a good double barrelled sports name.

 

[Shaun Hewitt]

EIT, to CHT cuts out JFH to RTS..passes to TMM, kicks on for CNK who gathers, passes out wide to DWZ who scores in the corner!

 

[JJ]

Blyde could be an epic signing for the women

 

[Big Marn]

Blyde could be an epic signing for the women

interesting career decision for her.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby-league/warriors/warriors-nrlw-black-ferns-sevens-michaela-blyde-joins-renewed-franchise/SPHNTPISXRB5LEXPMC5KIZHQC4/

Black Ferns Sevens superstar Michaela Blyde has signed for the New Zealand Warriors NRLW side in a major code-swap coup for the club’s return to the competition next year.
The 28-year-old Taranaki-raised speedster will join the Warriors on a one-year deal.
Blyde comes with a stellar CV as back-to-back World Rugby Sevens women’s player of the year in 2017 and 2018 - the first to achieve that feat - was in the gold medal-winning Blacks Ferns squad at the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games and won Commonwealth Games gold in 2018.
Blyde was also in the Rugby World Cup Sevens winning team in 2018 and has helped the Black Ferns to six World Sevens series triumphs since 2013.
She has scored nearly 250 tries across over 200 appearances in the New Zealand sevens side.


Blyde said she was a little surprised to sign for the Warriors, but was looking forward to her code switch to rugby league.
“A lot of excitement has been going through my mind,” she said.
“I’ve been looking forward to this day for the last few months. To sign with the Warriors was a little bit of a surprise for me to be honest but nonetheless I’m extremely grateful for the opportunity the One New Zealand Warriors are offering me.

“I’m excited to be a part of something that’s growing super, super quickly and you’d be silly not to want to be involved in it.
“The Warriors are a team I grew up watching on TV. My family are rugby but when we knew the Warriors were playing on TV we’d change the channel to watch them and support them.”
First drafted into the New Zealand Sevens team as a 17-year-old in 2013, Blyde followed her mother Cherry who played for the Black Ferns in 1992.

 

[Beavers Headgear]

John Bateman to the Cowboys

 

[Shaun Hewitt]

Surely there won't be any further movements now until new year right?

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Surely there won't be any further movements now until new year right?

Who knows with Rugby League ! lol

Jayden Sullivan released by the Tigers to join Wayne’s reject shop at the Rabbits

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Looks like Leo Thompson will sign with the Raiders for 2026 and beyond

must admit I’ve found the big chase for him for big money a bit strange, good player but not really an above average NRL front rower, averaged 104m this year

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Looks like Leo Thompson will sign with the Raiders for 2026 and beyond

must admit I’ve found the big chase for him for big money a bit strange, good player but not really an above average NRL front rower, averaged 104m this year

Yeah I went cold on the idea of him as soon as I heard he was after marquee money.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

John Bateman to the Cowboys

They needed some decent news, Tom Chester’s out for all of 2025 with an ACL and Taumalolo had had surgery and won’t be able to train until some time in January so he’ll come back underdone at best.

 

[Beavers Headgear]

They needed some decent news, Tom Chester’s out for all of 2025 with an ACL and Taumalolo had had surgery and won’t be able to train until some time in January so he’ll come back underdone at best.

Heilum Luki has done his ACL this morning as well

 

[JJ]

Brutal

 

[Penrose Warrior]

Looks like Leo Thompson will sign with the Raiders for 2026 and beyond

must admit I’ve found the big chase for him for big money a bit strange, good player but not really an above average NRL front rower, averaged 104m this year

I think that speaks to the market for props more than anything. He could be something, and wants to command big $. Braden Hamlin-Uele was the same (and his 2024 numbers are worse)

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Heilum Luki has done his ACL this morning as well

Ooft. Not looking like a year for the Cows.

 

[Shaun Hewitt]

Tis the season.
Just wanted to wish the LU Fam a happy holiday season!
Please return safe and sound and ready for next year

 

[JJ]

Mam been given 9 games, 1 more than Leniu…. Hmmmmmm….

 

[Penrose Warrior]

9 games, $850 fine, loss of license.

Ironically...he's been hit with a wet bus ticket, when that's the f**king thing he should have used in the first place.

Weak as piss.

 

[JJ]

Hadn’t he already lost his license? Joke tbh, repeat offender, needs to learn something not continually be let off, and also be done sort of crusader when an opposition player says something mean… (which I’m not excusing, but he’s has several issues and was lucky he didn’t kill someone)

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Speaking of (ex) footballers with problems, how about Carl Hayman? Damn that guys life has really taken a bad turn, some of it self inflicted, some not. He was the highest paid rugby player on the planet at one point, and the best prop in the world.