May 14, 2026 • 9 mins
Jason Pine of Newstalk ZB reckons Warriors fans have good reason to be excited at the moment!
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Jason Pine out of News took ZEBB Sport.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear Poney on ZEBB between twelve and three
on the weekends and he catches up from Magic Round
for the NRL over in Brisbane.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Piny Good afternoon. Brisbane is a.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Great city as far as location, as far as accessibility
to Stadia and infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
It's got everything going for it.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It is a terrific city, Andy, and it's great to
chat to you from Brisbane for well ahead of Magic
Round which gets underway tonight. Of course, looking forward to
the Warriors against the Broncos. That is going to absolutely
go off on Sunday afternoon here in Brisbane four o'clock
and then six o'clock over there. Look, I think a
lot of people I've talked to already over here say
that is the game of the round. And they reckon
(00:52):
At sun Corp, which holds what a tick over fifty
two thousand, they reckon it'll be about half and half
as far as supporters are concerned, which is incredible really
when you think that, you know, we're here on on
Broncos ground. Really it's it's you know, it's it's it's
the you know, the it's their home, you know. But
there are as many Warriors fans heat in town I
(01:14):
think as any other regulletue team. The number of Warriors
jerseys that I've seen in my short time here is
just incredible. So yeah, you can't wait for Sunday afternoon
of what happens at sun Corpse Stadium.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Back in two thousand and three, I went to a
m Z stadium there, but I didn't ever worry as top.
I had my stags Top and a few of the
locals will stuck me as a trader.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
But that's another story.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
But just Warriors fans Kiwi's on the Gold Coast, it's
it's a team that is very, very well supported. They've
got a pop up shop there just outside the stadium
to I believe.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah they do, Yeah they do. And look I think
you know, you often hear that when when the Warriors
play in Australia, they are the most supported away team
over here. That you know that they you know, consistently
draw massive crowds for you know, for for away games.
I'm just crossing the road here, and you don't want to.
(02:03):
I don't want you to die.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
No, I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Be run down in the middle of a live cross.
But you look, it's it's something about the Warrior is
that people say with everybody's favorite other team, you know,
but they also just have a huge following of you know,
of expat Kigwe's and as you know, there are a
lot of a lot of expants living on the Gold Coast,
living in Queensland, living in Brisbane, you know, maybe up
(02:26):
on the Sunshine Coast, and honestly the numbers that have
traveled as well, the plane I took from Wellington yesterday
to Brisbane would have been ninety five percent Warriors fans,
all in their colors, already ready for a massive weekend.
So yeah, I just think it's going to be an
influx of of Warriors fans in particular here across the
(02:49):
weekend and not just for the game on Sunday. But
I think they'll they'll cich at all and they'll they'll
be a part of the entire weekend, which is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
It's a too big a conclusion to jump toos that
are Warriors for he so looking at their premiership window
at the moment, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I mean it's look, you don't you don't win the
you don't win the conference, we know in May. But look,
they you know they've I don't know, something in the
worries I guess have struggled with in the past is
consistency and they know that. You know, they they put
they put runs together and then they lose a couple
of games or whatever it might be. But I just
think they've got the raw materials at the moment Andy
(03:27):
to really make a run at this. You know, we
all know about the Luke Metcalf situation which has been
which has broken in the last couple of days, and
that he'll be leaving at the end of the season.
So how do they negotiate that. I mean, we don't
need to worry about looking ahead the next year yet,
but what does Luke Dekarf do in terms of the
what role he plays in the Warriors in twenty twenty six?
How do they best utilize him for that? But look,
(03:50):
I just think there's a lot of great, you know,
moving parts in this team at the moment. You look
at a guy like Jackson Ford who is playing sensational
rugby league at the moment, you know, James Busher Harris
with him in the front row, and then you've got
Tenor Boyd and Chanelle Harris to Vita or do tuoy
vasishek with a sort of a new lease on life
a Lafiana can Perrera. This new winger that they've picked
(04:12):
up from the Gold Coast is just everywhere you look,
class and quality and the Warriors at the moment, and
I just think it all as well for a really
strong run at the back end of this season.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Pony ob speaking to you for a couple of years
now on the slot, and I reckon, at the moment
this is the most well, actually it's listening to you
speak is like if you're a was fan, you feel
like running through a brick wall because all of a
sudden the stars are starting to align.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Well, I'm sure that Andrew Webster has the team feelings
that way, because you know, he's a master motivator as
we know. And I think, look, Warriors fans are eternally optimistic.
But let's not beat around the bush. Andy. It's been
thirty one years now and they've never won a Grand Final.
You know, I've been there a couple of times, and
the catch cry of this is our year has been
(04:57):
used over and over and over again, and it's never
our year, has it? The Warriors have not won the
NRL Premiership, So look, a lot of water has to
fly under the bridge before a list him silverware at
the end of the season. You know that it's an
awfully long way away, But if you're a Warriors fan
at the moment, I think you've got every right to
(05:18):
feel optimistic about what the next couple of months might hold.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Regarding the Luke Metcalf situation, do you think this is
a case of the player but the player being trying
to be bigger than the team.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Does that come into.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
It such a difficult one? I mean, Luke Metcalf wants
to play rugby league, you know, I mean like every
player does, and his injuries have kept him out of
the seven Jersey or since he had that terrific start
to the season last year and his loss was a,
you know what, a massive loss for the Warriors, and
I think everybody was so looking forward to and coming
(05:51):
back into the side this season, and Canner Boyd was
kind of seen as a bit of a safe pair
of hands until Luke Metcalf got back. Now, what Tanner
Boyd's done is played really really well and made it difficult,
in fact impossible for Andrew Ress to have take that
seven jumper off. He said to look bat caup okay, Well,
tan is our seven, so why don't you playing the
six judy, which he has a lot of times in
(06:12):
the past. But for some reason, Luke Metcalf I think
has just decided that he's a seven and a seven
only and if the seven jumper is occupied at the Warriors,
then he'll need to go elsewhere. And obviously he's got
a big money move for the Dragons. But it does
rape the question Andy of you know, what contracts are
actually worth, because if you can break a contract simply
(06:35):
because you're not getting game time, then what sort of
precedent does that set, you know. I just think it's
a pretty sorry state of affairs. I would have hoped,
and I don't know Luke bitcarp at all, but I
would I hope that he would have perhaps taken it
upon himself to earn his way back into the side
to play in the sixth jumper if that was what
was required at the moment. And then who knows, Tanner
Boy could get injured, you know, and he might have
to play seven. So yeah, it's just a bit of
(06:57):
a sorry set of circumstances really, And what I hope
is that Luke Metcarp hasn't turned on by Warriors fans.
I get the feeling that, you know, they're not going
to take too kindly too. As you say, a player
looking like he is bigger than the club. You know,
he just wants to play rugby league. But I know
there's a lot more to it than that.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Ivan Clary resigning from the Penrith Panthers, but not until
the end of next season. And depending on who you
speak to Piney, the Panthers are rebuilding nicely. If there's
such a thing for them that they're a very successful
team over the past seven or eight seasons, and all
of a sudden it's game on for Ivan Clary as
to what he does next.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Just so perhaps Nathan.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
What a coach? You know, what a coach Andy? And
you think about it, you know he was the coach
when the Warriors last made the Grand Final in twenty eleven.
It was obvious back then that he was you know,
he was a very very astute rugby league mind. And
his time at Penrith has just been glittering, hathn't it?
You know what I mean, what a what a tenure,
what a what a dynasty to oversee for Ivan Clary
(07:57):
and goodness something he knows. You know, you wouldn't want
to be the guy following, would you? Got some? But
you know what he does next? I think he's on
record of saying he doesn't want to coach another NRL club. Look,
he might well end up coaching Australia or coaching New Zealand,
or he might be in charge of an Origin team.
Who knows. But yeah, but one of the great, one
of the great rugby league coaches of the modern era.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Just question Alytt to wrap up Piney the A League,
the Phoenix Woman. They're playing Melbourne City in the final
tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
There's a great opportunity here for history.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah massive, what what are That's exactly it? And you
know history beckons for this team. They've already made history
by making the Grand Final. No New Zealand team men
or women have ever done that, you know, off the
back of a raucous and riveton game last week in
a potty to a park. They're in Melbourne tomorrow take
on Melbourne City. Look they won't be favorite, but history,
(08:51):
as we know is littered with Grand finals where underdogs
do sensational things. So look, I can't wait to watch
that from over the side of the ditchal try and
find her yeh screen in Queensland that is showing in
the middle of major ground, which we like.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Your good luck, Poney will let you carry on up the.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Wires up the wise end, so you mate.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Jason Pine and new stug ZB Sport. Jacob Coughlin, you've
heard it here first going.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Put twenty backs on the wires for the premiership. There
have seen it. Tom O'Brien's up next to wrap up.
Jason Pine out of News took ZEBB Sport.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear Poney on ZEBB between twelve and three
on the weekends and he catches up from Magic Round
for the NRL over in Brisbane.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Piny Good afternoon. Brisbane is a.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Great city as far as location, as far as accessibility
to Stadia and infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
It's got everything going for it.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It is a terrific city, Andy, and it's great to
chat to you from Brisbane for well ahead of Magic
Round which gets underway tonight. Of course, looking forward to
the Warriors against the Broncos. That is going to absolutely
go off on Sunday afternoon here in Brisbane four o'clock
and then six o'clock over there. Look, I think a
lot of people I've talked to already over here say
that is the game of the round. And they reckon
(00:52):
At sun Corp, which holds what a tick over fifty
two thousand, they reckon it'll be about half and half
as far as supporters are concerned, which is incredible really
when you think that, you know, we're here on on
Broncos ground. Really it's it's you know, it's it's it's
the you know, the it's their home, you know. But
there are as many Warriors fans heat in town I
(01:14):
think as any other regulletue team. The number of Warriors
jerseys that I've seen in my short time here is
just incredible. So yeah, you can't wait for Sunday afternoon
of what happens at sun Corpse Stadium.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Back in two thousand and three, I went to a
m Z stadium there, but I didn't ever worry as top.
I had my stags Top and a few of the
locals will stuck me as a trader.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
But that's another story.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
But just Warriors fans Kiwi's on the Gold Coast, it's
it's a team that is very, very well supported. They've
got a pop up shop there just outside the stadium
to I believe.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah they do, Yeah they do. And look I think
you know, you often hear that when when the Warriors
play in Australia, they are the most supported away team
over here. That you know that they you know, consistently
draw massive crowds for you know, for for away games.
I'm just crossing the road here, and you don't want to.
(02:03):
I don't want you to die.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
No, I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Be run down in the middle of a live cross.
But you look, it's it's something about the Warrior is
that people say with everybody's favorite other team, you know,
but they also just have a huge following of you know,
of expat Kigwe's and as you know, there are a
lot of a lot of expants living on the Gold Coast,
living in Queensland, living in Brisbane, you know, maybe up
(02:26):
on the Sunshine Coast, and honestly the numbers that have
traveled as well, the plane I took from Wellington yesterday
to Brisbane would have been ninety five percent Warriors fans,
all in their colors, already ready for a massive weekend.
So yeah, I just think it's going to be an
influx of of Warriors fans in particular here across the
(02:49):
weekend and not just for the game on Sunday. But
I think they'll they'll cich at all and they'll they'll
be a part of the entire weekend, which is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
It's a too big a conclusion to jump toos that
are Warriors for he so looking at their premiership window
at the moment, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I mean it's look, you don't you don't win the
you don't win the conference, we know in May. But look,
they you know they've I don't know, something in the
worries I guess have struggled with in the past is
consistency and they know that. You know, they they put
they put runs together and then they lose a couple
of games or whatever it might be. But I just
think they've got the raw materials at the moment Andy
(03:27):
to really make a run at this. You know, we
all know about the Luke Metcalf situation which has been
which has broken in the last couple of days, and
that he'll be leaving at the end of the season.
So how do they negotiate that. I mean, we don't
need to worry about looking ahead the next year yet,
but what does Luke Dekarf do in terms of the
what role he plays in the Warriors in twenty twenty six?
How do they best utilize him for that? But look,
(03:50):
I just think there's a lot of great, you know,
moving parts in this team at the moment. You look
at a guy like Jackson Ford who is playing sensational
rugby league at the moment, you know, James Busher Harris
with him in the front row, and then you've got
Tenor Boyd and Chanelle Harris to Vita or do tuoy
vasishek with a sort of a new lease on life
a Lafiana can Perrera. This new winger that they've picked
(04:12):
up from the Gold Coast is just everywhere you look,
class and quality and the Warriors at the moment, and
I just think it all as well for a really
strong run at the back end of this season.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Pony ob speaking to you for a couple of years
now on the slot, and I reckon, at the moment
this is the most well, actually it's listening to you
speak is like if you're a was fan, you feel
like running through a brick wall because all of a
sudden the stars are starting to align.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Well, I'm sure that Andrew Webster has the team feelings
that way, because you know, he's a master motivator as
we know. And I think, look, Warriors fans are eternally optimistic.
But let's not beat around the bush. Andy. It's been
thirty one years now and they've never won a Grand Final.
You know, I've been there a couple of times, and
the catch cry of this is our year has been
(04:57):
used over and over and over again, and it's never
our year, has it? The Warriors have not won the
NRL Premiership, So look, a lot of water has to
fly under the bridge before a list him silverware at
the end of the season. You know that it's an
awfully long way away, But if you're a Warriors fan
at the moment, I think you've got every right to
(05:18):
feel optimistic about what the next couple of months might hold.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Regarding the Luke Metcalf situation, do you think this is
a case of the player but the player being trying
to be bigger than the team.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Does that come into.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
It such a difficult one? I mean, Luke Metcalf wants
to play rugby league, you know, I mean like every
player does, and his injuries have kept him out of
the seven Jersey or since he had that terrific start
to the season last year and his loss was a,
you know what, a massive loss for the Warriors, and
I think everybody was so looking forward to and coming
(05:51):
back into the side this season, and Canner Boyd was
kind of seen as a bit of a safe pair
of hands until Luke Metcalf got back. Now, what Tanner
Boyd's done is played really really well and made it difficult,
in fact impossible for Andrew Ress to have take that
seven jumper off. He said to look bat caup okay, Well,
tan is our seven, so why don't you playing the
six judy, which he has a lot of times in
(06:12):
the past. But for some reason, Luke Metcalf I think
has just decided that he's a seven and a seven
only and if the seven jumper is occupied at the Warriors,
then he'll need to go elsewhere. And obviously he's got
a big money move for the Dragons. But it does
rape the question Andy of you know, what contracts are
actually worth, because if you can break a contract simply
(06:35):
because you're not getting game time, then what sort of
precedent does that set, you know. I just think it's
a pretty sorry state of affairs. I would have hoped,
and I don't know Luke bitcarp at all, but I
would I hope that he would have perhaps taken it
upon himself to earn his way back into the side
to play in the sixth jumper if that was what
was required at the moment. And then who knows, Tanner
Boy could get injured, you know, and he might have
to play seven. So yeah, it's just a bit of
(06:57):
a sorry set of circumstances really, And what I hope
is that Luke Metcarp hasn't turned on by Warriors fans.
I get the feeling that, you know, they're not going
to take too kindly too. As you say, a player
looking like he is bigger than the club. You know,
he just wants to play rugby league. But I know
there's a lot more to it than that.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Ivan Clary resigning from the Penrith Panthers, but not until
the end of next season. And depending on who you
speak to Piney, the Panthers are rebuilding nicely. If there's
such a thing for them that they're a very successful
team over the past seven or eight seasons, and all
of a sudden it's game on for Ivan Clary as
to what he does next.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Just so perhaps Nathan.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
What a coach? You know, what a coach Andy? And
you think about it, you know he was the coach
when the Warriors last made the Grand Final in twenty eleven.
It was obvious back then that he was you know,
he was a very very astute rugby league mind. And
his time at Penrith has just been glittering, hathn't it?
You know what I mean, what a what a tenure,
what a what a dynasty to oversee for Ivan Clary
(07:57):
and goodness something he knows. You know, you wouldn't want
to be the guy following, would you? Got some? But
you know what he does next? I think he's on
record of saying he doesn't want to coach another NRL club. Look,
he might well end up coaching Australia or coaching New Zealand,
or he might be in charge of an Origin team.
Who knows. But yeah, but one of the great, one
of the great rugby league coaches of the modern era.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Just question Alytt to wrap up Piney the A League,
the Phoenix Woman. They're playing Melbourne City in the final
tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
There's a great opportunity here for history.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah massive, what what are That's exactly it? And you
know history beckons for this team. They've already made history
by making the Grand Final. No New Zealand team men
or women have ever done that, you know, off the
back of a raucous and riveton game last week in
a potty to a park. They're in Melbourne tomorrow take
on Melbourne City. Look they won't be favorite, but history,
(08:51):
as we know is littered with Grand finals where underdogs
do sensational things. So look, I can't wait to watch
that from over the side of the ditchal try and
find her yeh screen in Queensland that is showing in
the middle of major ground, which we like.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Your good luck, Poney will let you carry on up the.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Wires up the wise end, so you mate.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Jason Pine and new stug ZB Sport. Jacob Coughlin, you've
heard it here first going.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Put twenty backs on the wires for the premiership. There
have seen it. Tom O'Brien's up next to wrap up.
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