This Warriors Life

The TWL podcast is back for 2023...and Will and Brad are rustier than an old gate and only half as effective to kick things off. The same can't be said of the Warriors, though, who carved up in their first trial against the Tigers, providing the boys with plenty to talk about (on top of the usual tangential nonsense - including easy-peel agony, credit card expiry despair and an IRD scam near-miss). Support This Warriors Life on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thiswarriorslife Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With the TWL podcast about to click into gear for 2023, Fonzie travels back in time 12 months to a conversation with TeetsNRL as they preview the 2022 season. Fonzie gets pretty much everything wrong here :), but the thoughtlines might not be as far off as they seemed as we head into 2023...Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a pre-season drop from Fonzie, as he draws from the past to offer some thoughts on cohesion in footy teams, and the implications for the 2023 season.Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TWL limped towards the end of 2022, so we like to think of this as the first episode of the new season - and a new era. Fittingly, Will, Brad and Fonz were joined by the Warriors' man of the moment, incoming head coach Andrew Webster, for a fascinating hour of chat. The boys might be a little bit smitten with our new gaffer, just quietly: a deep thinker, passionate about the challenge ahead and a bloody good fella. Enjoy!Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After a two-month hiatus, Fonz, Will and Brad have finally got their act together - and recovered enough psychologically and spiritually - to give a fast and loose review of the Warriors' wretched 2022 season. Thanks for your patience ❤️ Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will, Brad and Fonzie are mirroring the Warriors' late-season displays, absolutely dragging their feet towards the end of an arduous campaign...but there's a sense of jaded positivity as the team approaches Saturday's season closer at Mt Smart. Footy chat plus bonus Fonz DIY tips and Brad's best 'man walks into a bar' joke. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After a couple of weeks' hiatus with everyone's schedule up the wazoo, Will, Brad and Fonzie reconvene to look at our best win of the year. Plus Brad comes up with a pre-emptive alibi if he and Will get out of hand this Friday - with dad Les lining up to play the Andre Ponga role. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With Fonzie caught in the rat race, self-employed duo Will and Brad embark on a typically carefree, tangential, aimless Friday arvo pod. But if you're into Canberra trivia, maths exam cheating and looking down your nose at rugby union, this could be the episode for you. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's bye week - the perfect time to blood Brad back into the TWL line-up after a month on the sidelines - but there's plenty to cover: homecoming, Reece, CNK, TMM, Webster. Come for the Warriors chat, stay for Brad's stirring rendition of Otago rugby anthem 'Southern Man'.Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just as it's ruled Walshy out of the Warriors' homecoming game, Brad is a late scratching from the TWL podcast due to COVID - but Will and Fonzie are on deck to try and sum up what Sunday's match means to the club and its fans. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will and Fonzie dissect the first week of the Stacey Jones caretaker era and find ever-so-slight improvement, while Fonz takes a dive into Shaun Johnson's performance so deep that it's surprising he didn't end up with the bends - and his findings will shock you! Beyond that, there's a look at Ronald Volkman's impending debut, an ugly Adam Pompey stat and a squiz at the New Zealand and Tonga squads ahead of next week's Test.Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We were lucky to make it to one, so we're more surprised than anyone to raise the bat for 100 episodes. It's a big one, with 'MC' Will and 'Ice' Brad joined by 'Eazy' Fonz on his corporate bigwig lunch break to break down the coaching upheaval at the Warriors, before club legend (and new quasi-assistant coach) Kevin Campion phones in to give us some insights from the revamped inner sanctum. Cheers to everyone that's sat through the previous 99 - love yas all. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fonzie steals the keys to the TWL platform to post a reaction piece to the Nathan Brown news, and travels back in time only to find that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Usual TWL service to resume in the coming days. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will and Brad are both under the weather but have pushed out a lengthy NRL halfway review (recorded in two parts over three days), running the rule over each club and taking a deeper dive into the poorly maintained pool that is the 2022 Warriors - including individual grades for all 29 players used so far this season. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just a trio of wannabe alpha males, thrashing out our differences over a beer on a Friday arvo. Fonzie kicks off with a searing opening gambit about the bizarre developments at the Warriors over the past week before ducking off back to work, then Will and Brad are joined by a special guest - NRL journalistic royalty The Mole - to get his take on a situation even someone with his experience is finding hard to believe. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will and Fonzie team up this week to paint a realistic picture of a deeply concerning loss to Souths, with a keen focus on the Warriors' defence. Meanwhile, at this fascinating juncture we take a look at the club's coaching scenario - Will is collecting banana boxes for upcoming departures but Fonz's fraying patience has a few good weeks left yet.Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We needed to do something to pull us out of the funk after Sunday's demoralising loss to the 12-man Sharks, so Will, Brad and Fonz had the absolute pleasure of being joined on the pod by Warriors icon Simon Mannering. Somehow he's an even better bloke than he was a player - kick back and enjoy his insights about life in and out of footy. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What do you do with your Friday arvo if you're self-employed and somewhat lazy? Have a couple of beers and record a chat loosely based around the Warriors. Brad and Will talk the win over the Raiders, the torrent of roster-related news, NRL expansion and (after almost forgetting) Round 9, as well as go-to albums, vasectomy analogies, towbar covers and anagrams. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The scab from the Anzac Day demolition hasn't fully formed yet, but Will and Fonzie are peeling it back anyway to break down what went wrong - and the findings are surprisingly positive. Plus Will takes a look at records and the Warriors' biggest one-week turnarounds, Fonzie unveils his Brownie game-plan theory with expertise that is half-Cronk, half-savant, and they touch on Ed Kosi, SJ, Daejarn Asi, backline changes ahead of a crunch game with equally desperate Canberra, and Skyhooks. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Warriors podcast throuple is back together again for the first time in 2022 with Brad and Fonzie sorting out their schedules to join Will on a Friday arvo. First and foremost, Larking concludes his pants saga, then it's onto an erudite Fonz-led breakdown of the Roosters game and a wrap of where the team is at right now. There's the usual tangents, anecdotes and waffle (inlcuding musical guilty pleasures), and from about the hour mark a genuine highlight: an interview with the one and only Ian Roberts. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With Fonzie still on a post-golden point bender and Brad too busy showing off his new pants around town, Will's joined by the esteemed Michael Burgess for a dive into Friday's victory and Shaun Johnson's impact since his return to the Warriors, the Montoya incident, the Warriors' season prospects, the chances of Reece Walsh hanging around, the club's impending homecoming, and the World Cups - Rugby League and FIFA.Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Still a little rattled from Friday's scrimmage - as evidenced by Will's muddled delivery - but fortunately Fonzie is here to provide a bit of direction and clarity, much like we hope SJ will on the paddock this weekend. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will and Fonzie are back together for the first time in 2022 - and it feels good. Tune in for a deep-ish dive into the Warriors' two matches so far: what's working and what's not; who's going well and who's not; what the outlook is from this early stage of the campaign and where Brownie's job security stands. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The 2022 season is just hours away, Brad Larking is back on the TWL podcast with Will Evans for the first time this year - and it's the most shambolic Warriors-related combination since Dane Nielsen and Glen Fisiiahi teamed up on an edge. Plenty of tangents (beer, BZP, the days when not everyone in NZ could get TV3, bands everyone likes that we hate), some Warriors and NRL chat, and Josh Curran levels of enthusiasm. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Warriors CEO Cameron George joined TWL's Will Evans for a chat a week out from the club's first game of 2022, covering off:-SJ's return, Dylan Walker's signing, Walsh and CHT's future-The Redcliffe set-up and optimism for a permanent return home-Update on development and pathways -The relationship with the Dolphins after getting an NRL license-The contribution of Nathan Brown, Craig Hodges and Mark RobinsonVisit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's an Xmas special! But Fonzie is a self-professed Grinch, so really it's an excuse for he and Will to catch up for a couple of end-of-year Friday arvo beers and chat everything Warriors. The Twitter and NZ Warriors forum communities have dished up some curly questions in high volume - the boys have attempted to answer as many of them as thoughtfully as they can. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's too disjointed to call it a season review, but Will and Brad give their assessment of the weak finish to 2021 on the Gold Coast, the overblown discipline furore and a wretched season overall. Recruitment chat, Will's deep dive into why Brown has a minimal chance of proving a good hire, Brad's ever-involving odyssey of a lamb-owner, Warriors youngsters that got away (courtesy of Nick Phillips and Callum Newson-Brown), support for former greats to sound off publicly (however ill-conceived or negative), Player of the Year chat, the Chancer NRL Finals Weekender game and a quick preview of the Week 1 games. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last Friday's finals-hopes-ending loss still stinging like the first sunburn of summer, Will and Brad draft in a special guest to boost the enthusiasm factor - and Sammy St. G sparkles on debut like Patty Herbert or Walshy at AAMI Park on Anzac Day. The loss to the Raiders reviewed, Sunday's clash with the Titans previewed, and a whole bunch of 2021 season-reviewy, 2022-forecasty, archetypal-Warriors-fan-lament jibber jabber in between.Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The boys convene on Friday morning for a rare GAMEDAY podcast, revelling in the Warriors still being a mathematical finals hope ahead of tonight's showdown with the Raiders. Meanwhile, Brad gets a pet lamb and wonders aloud if he could bring himself to eat it, before detailing his battles with a knotted extension lead. Also check out their Chancer TWL Fan Challenge picks - play before kick-off tonight: https://chncr.io/raiders24twlVisit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming to you from Level 4, Will and Brad are already showing signs of lockdown fatigue...could be the day drinking. But they're pumped the Warriors are still alive in the finals race, while the rambling, tangent-heavy league chat is complemented by Larking asking another couple of life's great questions: where is the thermometer for the outside temp on your car? And who is the 'feels like' temp person on the weather? Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They're back after a few weeks in the casualty ward, wrapping up the Warriors' first back-to-back wins of the season as the little finals flame just keeps flickering. The Twitter mailbag gets a run, Will bemoans the lack of quality rugby league Evanses and Brad's got issues with Cooper Cronk and Maggi 2-minute Noodles' packaging. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a far more contented Will and Brad rolling up this week despite the current six-match losing run, thanks to the short-handed Warriors' gallantry against the Panthers. A couple of new segments with Russell and Shane's in-game text message thread revealed and Ben Lythe getting the nod for the first edition of 'Forgotten Warriors', plus a fair bit of news to chew the fat over before the NRL Round 19 preview. Plenty of positivity from the boys, which has been in short supply of late. We forgot to plug this week's Chancer game, so go and play that please: https://www.chancerhq.com/warriorsVisit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Comin' at ya on a Friday afternoon as Will and Brad gave it a bit more time to calm down after last weekend's horrendous capitulation. It didn't help. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fonzie Talks Warriors and TWL's Will drop everything to react to the daddy of all Warriors news bombshells: SHAUN JOHNSON IS COMING HOME BABYYYYYYY!!! Don't turn it up too loud, the euphoria might blow out your speakers. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Between Walshy's Origin call-up, the DWZ confirmation, Chad Townsend's shock return and the Black Caps' World Test Championship triumph, there's been enough happening for Will and Brad to crawl out of a dark pit of despair after the loss to the Knights and record an episode. The undoubted highlights, though, are Brad's separate analogies involving Gloriavale and MacGyver. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will and Brad are coming in flat, because (a) No Fonzie (b) the demoralising loss to the Storm (c) our 5-8 record and (d) DWZ. Plenty of recruitment and retention chat, a review of Sunday's shit-Storm and a full NRL Round 15 preview. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's another crossover episode! Will and Brad are joined by Fonzie Talks Warriors for a monster two-hour-plus gasbag - and are predictably dwarfed by his intellect and analysis, while also being emasculated by his deep baritone voice. We had fun recording, not making any promises you'll enjoy the listen as much. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After the obligatory gushing about Reece Walsh, Will and Brad take a look ahead to Friday's huge trip to Townsville with an unchanged line-up. There's also Peta Hiku's departure, Will's triumph in Chancer's TWL Fan Challenge and one brush with the late, great Bob Fulton, birthday shout-outs, the barnstorming return of 'Which Warrior Would You?', a full NRL Round 12 preview and a new outro. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Not a hint of smugness here - Will and Brad take no joy in what unfolded on Sunday arvo at Brookie - but they did say benching Reece Walsh was a recipe for disaster. So it proved, amid some associated defensive ineptitude, and their post-match debrief is sure to provide some cathartic relief for some fans. Catch the TWL match report here: BASIC BROWN BURNED BY TURBO-CHARGED MANLYVisit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will and Brad try and keep a lid on their unbridled enthusiasm for the Warriors' new wonderboy Reece Walsh...and do a terrible job of it. They're all in. Lots of team chat - including preferred three-quarter lines and halves/hooker/utility combinations when we're at full-strength - plus a full preview of NRL Round 8. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just a quick Saturday night ep from the boys to run through the TWL Chancer Warriors Fan Challenge for the ANZAC Day showdown with the Storm - plus some huge props for Benji Marshall and Isaiah Papali'i in a wee Friday night review, and fitness test advice from Brad. Play the TWL Chancer Warriors Fan Challenge here: https://www.chancerhq.com/warriors/Storm_2021round07 Or even better, download the Chancer app: https://apps.apple.com/nz/app/chancer/id1515390821Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will and Brad revel in the Warriors' bounce-back upset of the Dragons, empty out a packed TWL Twitter mailbag and rip through a preview of Round 7 - the boys have got a funny feeling we'll push the Storm close on ANZAC Day. Come for the league chat, stay for Brad's story about a knife-sharpening weirdo Tradestaff sent him. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On hiatus for a couple of weeks, Will and Brad return with their longest TWL pod ever. That's not necessarily a good thing. Nevertheless, the boys are all guns blazing - with Nikorima and Egan in the firing line - after the horror show against Manly, and pondering where the team goes from here and the club goes spine recruitment-wise. Plenty around the NRL to sink the teeth into in a big news week ahead of Round 6, headlined by the Broncos' woes, the Sharks' coaching fiasco, the precocious Sam Walker, the ageless Benji Marshall, and the sizzling form of our Sunday arvo opponents, the Dragons. Happy 40th Telly!Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy Easter This Warriors Lifers! Still regrouping from the most exciting thing that has ever happened in Canberra since Telly was born there, Will and Brad put the Warriors' Easter Sunday showdown with the injury-stricken Roosters under the microscope. Plus there's a bit of news chat - Origin eligibility, 18th man - the TWL Chancer Warriors Fan Challenge and a rapid Round 4 preview. Nothing special, just a solid, no-frills Leeson Ah Mau of a podcast. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will, Brad and Raiders tragic Telly try to piece together what happened in one of the wildest 80 minutes ever conjured by the fickle rugby league Gods. A game for the ages with so many talking points - if you weren't electrified by that, check yourself for a pulse. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will and Brad catch up straight after a tough 20-16 loss to the Knights, admiring the Warriors' grit but bemoaning a late lead lost and an anonymous showing from Kodi Nikorima. Onwards and upwards though - and Brad has some Tales from Runanga gear to provide a silver lining on a disappointing night, as well as some TWL Chancer Warriors Fan Challenge results. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You didn't ask for it, but we did it anyway. Will Evans and Brad Larking punch out their immediate post-match reaction in podcast form - and it's a helluva lot more satisfying to do it after a statement 19-6 Round 1 win over the Titans. The boys wrap up a gritty victory, analyse the standouts and the big moments, and cast their eye over the weekend of footy to to date. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's NRL Round 1 this week! And Brad is absolutely frothing for the season and to be back on the pod, so much so he's revived Tales of Runanga. He and Will take a look at our first Warriors team of 2021 and break down Saturday's clash with the Titans, as well as the rest of the opening round.Brad's new segment 'Which Warrior Would You?' also makes its debut, while Will reveals the CD Stacey Jones had on repeat in 1997 in Rugby League Soundtrack. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a crossover pod! The kingpin of Warriors analysis, Fonzie Talks Warriors, joins TWL's Will for a lively hour of chat. We get to hear about Fonzie's background and how he came to be a Warriors tragic, before he and Will delve into the Twitter mailbag to answer some incisive, thought-provoking and abrasive questions from the fans. If you're not already listening to Fonzie's top-notch podcast content, do yourself a favour and head here: https://open.spotify.com/show/769Wm9VAr6gnOMa3CA8TU0?si=H4lw-jPLR4ev9Cpx-MR36wAnd never fear, Brad will be back ASAP running it off the back fence as the TWL boys settle into the 2021 season groove. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After punching above his weight in recent weeks with Michael Burgess and Cameron George guesting on the show, Will Evans returns to the podcasting gutter where he belongs: alongside Brad Larking. And Brad will have listeners swooning to the sound of his suddenly sultry voice on his new mic. The boys talk conspiracy theories, RTS replacements, Jahrome Hughes and a few other bits and pieces in a wee appetiser for the TWL Podcast season ahead. Visit This Warriors Life's website, Twitter and Facebook for more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.