Since the NZ Warriors confirmed the extent of co-captain Mitch Barnett’s season-ending ACL injury, we can’t help but wonder how it’s going to hinder the side for the rest of the campaign.  So, with that in mind, we ask the BIG question: Has the Premiership window closed on the Wahs for 2025?

Without Mitch however, it provides an opportunity for not only Jackson Ford to start against the Sharks, but a number of others to come into the selection frame during the backend of the season.  Tanner Stowers-Smith is on the bench, Tom Ale in the extended squad…  and what about Bunty Afoa?

Rocco Berry can’t catch a break, because he’s broken down again.  The Real Big Dog has tweaked his hammy.  When will he be injury-free and get a decent run of games?!

And because we are at the halfway point of the regular season, we reveal our Form Kiwi 13, as picked by League Of Our Own selectors Blairy & Goran.  Our choice of dummy half is what we’d call an innovative choice!

Blairy returns home this week, which means he and Goran are reunited - in person - for the first time this year!  Blairy talks about the significance of his journey back to Aotearoa, leading a team of young men from Australia with Maori heritage to not only play rugby league, but to develop an understanding of their identity and culture.  Wish him well in the comments!!

On the menu for discussion this week: Is DALLIN WATENE-ZELEZNIAK doing enough to hold his wing spot, given TAINE TUAUPIKI’S solid start to the year?  Why is LEKA HALASIMA on the bench for the Bunnies this week - he was a locked and loaded starter last week!  What on earth were the RAIDERS up to post-match when they were giving it to the NZ Warriors FANS?

And the big one…  if he isn’t satisfied with the minor minutes he’s playing, we’ve found TE MAIRE MARTIN a new home.  Welcome to Parramatta!!

Following four matches on the road, the NZ Warriors are finally back at Mt Smart Stadium to face the Canberra Raiders in a 2 v 3 battle!  But there’s no James Fisher-Harris through suspension, and his co-captain Mitch Barnett has been rightly selected for New South Wales in Origin One.

We can’t say the same though for Wayde Egan who has missed the Blues squad entirely.  Blairy has a theory as to why, and who specifically is to blame!  Despite being in career-best form, and the Wahs in 2nd spot on the ladder, the crafty hooker will roll out against the Green Machine instead.  Which is probably a relief for Warriors fans given the key absentees in the front row!

Who likes the left edge of Halasima, Pompey and RTS?  Who gets frustrated with DWZ jamming in?  And how about this for a hypothetical: if the 2025 Warriors had Shaun Johnson, Tohu Harris and Addin Fonua-Blake…  would they be this high up the ladder?!

Another week, another hopeful Betcha This Happens multi from Goran…  but at least there are only 5 games to pick this week!

Blairy & Goran begin by thanking the many viewers who provided feedback and ideas around the first-choice NZ Warriors’ backline. But then, the discussion morphs into the makeup of the back row.  The question this week:  Has LEKA HALASIMA - after 13 first grade games - become a definite starter if everyone is fully fit?  Have your say in the comments!

With State of Origin One just around the corner and squads set to be picked, we look at our WAH-rigin hopefuls.  Mitch Barnett, Kurt Capewell, Wayde Egan, Jackson Ford and even Dally M Medalist-in-waiting Luke Metcalf!  Who’s picking up the good news phone call?

Lewis Brown’s made an awesome Wahs jersey, Brandon Smith is bouncing off to the Bunnies, and the Fossil returns!  As well as another (potentially poor) attempt at the Betcha This Happens Multi.

Blairy & Goran have gone off very early here, but…  Luke Metcalf will win the 2025 Dally M Medal.  Call us crazy, excitable, call us every name under the sun if you want to, HOWEVER…  the Warriors halfback is playing the house down and has received maximum points in voting three times already this season.  Hear us out!

We give the Wahs a report card after Term One - 8 games down, 16 to go in the regular season - and we predict great things in 'Term Two' given their opponents over the next month of footy.

And unbelievably, when we thought it was all said and done, when we thought we could move on…  as RTS prepares himself for a return to action after injury, we wonder if he’ll play at CENTRE against the Dragons!  Say it ain’t so?!

There’s a shock twist in Goran’s Betcha This Happens multi, and has Blairy found the time to chat with Ricky Stuart yet?

Hot on the heels of Kiwi international Scott Sorensen contesting the grading of his Grade 2 Shoulder Charge at the NRL judiciary and LOSING - receiving a 3-game ban for his shot on Manly's Nathan Brown - Blairy & Goran talk about the state of the game at the moment, and how head high contact is being interpreted.

With fans and pundits copping 18 sin bins during Round 8, the boys wonder how rugby league can find the right balance; sure, penalize illegal contact, but how do you redefine the role of the Bunker in all of it?  If the status quo remains, Magic Round in Brisbane will be more TRAGIC than anything.

The boys have a chuckle about their debut in a Warriors social media reel about CNK's re-signing, which ultimately leads to Taine Tuaupiki's path to cementing a first grade spot - should he leave the club to lock in a starting fullback spot?

Wahs v Cows is Egan v Robson for a NSW Origin jersey, and Goran goes off on another tangent for a wild Betcha This Happens Multi!

With the Warriors set to play their traditional ANZAC Day fixture this Friday, Blairy & Goran wonder if a match against the Newcastle Knights in Christchurch carries the same weight as an annual trip to Melbourne to face the Storm.  What would you rather?

Luke Metcalf earns praise for his massive stones against the Broncos, Jackson Ford does too after stepping up in the absence of Te Ika, The Fish - James Fisher-Harris.

Poor Benji Marshall has brought back Lachlan Galvin for the Tigers, so the circus at Wests gains momentum!  How, as a coach, do you integrate back into the side a player that has caused such huge disruption?  That's one of the many predicaments facing Benji right now.

And Goran takes a different approach to the Betcha This Happens multi...  all on this episode of League Of Our Own!

As the Warriors prepare for their 30th Anniversary match with the Brisbane Broncos, the news that nobody wanted to hear: co-captain James Fisher-Harris will be sidelined for between 4 and 6 weeks with a pectoral injury. Blairy & Goran discuss how his absence will be felt, and the leadership void in general given he joins RTS, DWZ and CNK as 'unavailables'.

However, in some good news, Te Maire Martin is BACK via the bench! While Goran looks forward to how he can influence the game, Blairy has a unique perspective on what Coach Webster will do with him!

And with the Lachlan Galvin story exploding across the ditch, we spare a thought for Benji Marshall and how he negotiates yet another difficult period in his short head coaching career in the NRL.

After a decade of torment, Blairy & Goran attempt to plot a course to victory for the NZ Warriors against the mighty Melbourne Storm!  Blairy talks about his experiences in this fixture, having played for both sides, and how Tawera Nikau was a big factor in building him up for matches AGAINST the Warriors when he played for Melbourne.  We discuss the head to head battle of the 9s - Wayde Egan versus Harry Grant - a match up we may see again in the Origin arena, the importance of winning the battle in the middle where JFH and Mitch Barnett will lead the way, and ask whether Eliesa Katoa will be at the Melbourne Storm for the rest of his playing days - given his incredible performances under Craig Bellamy.  Goran has another crack at the Betcha This Happens multi, Blairy threatens to come out of retirement, and there's a debut for Newcastle's Tyrone Thompson in the latest episode of League Of Our Own!

Blairy & Goran navigate the minefield that is April Fool's Day pranks and realise that the rumours about Te Maire and Charnze have some validity. Where are they potentially going, and how much would the NZ Warriors miss them? Also, HOLY HECKA Leka Halasima!! Following a star turn against the Tigers, we wonder what his positional future holds. Is Leka a prop, a backrower, a wing, even a 6?! Other questions include: Is Wayde Egan destined for Origin in 2025? What's Benji Marshall on about? And will we ever nail the Betcha This Happens multi??