March 4, 2026 • 7 mins
Marl Kelly looks at the NZ Warriors' chances in the 2026 NRL competition.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Alton John is the music for a Thursday. You're listening
to the muster one Hakanui. Our next guess is Mark Kelly,
sports podcast producer for Newstalk zb all these sporting podcasts,
Rugby Direct and the likes Rugby leg about to kick
off for Mark Kelly's on the tools putting everything together
and joins us this afternoon, Mk. Good afternoon, Good Andy.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
How are you mate?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Always good down in gtown? Buddy? Hey, look straight off
the bat? How good was finale last night? How good
were the black Caps overall?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah? Unbelievable, wasn't it. It's for old South Africa. We're
really their bogey team when it comes to knock out
cricket at World Cups. And yeah, great bowling to start
and hea, what did we get it with forty three
deliveries or something ridiculously to go one hundred or thirty three?
That's it's the sort of stuff you can't even really
(00:56):
do on sick cricket back in the day. So no
awesome stuff. And we'll wait and see if it's India
or England in the final. What is it Monday morning?
So not very exciting stuff for the black Caps. We've
been up and down in that T twenty World Cup,
it's pretty safe to say. But another final and let's
hope we can actually get the white ball World champs.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
In full credits of the Black Cats staff for planning
this TA tweenty series with India prior to the Cricket
World Cup, it's paid off.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, yeah, well, they definitely learned from their lessons in
that last World Cup in the West Indies and United
States where they just didn't have any warm up games
at all. Lost the first game to Afghanistan, lost the
West Indies the next game, and boom that was their
sort of tournament over. So now they've learned the lessons,
and yeah, it's great to see, as I said, those
(01:45):
fingers and toes cross that we can get this final
over the line, because what was it twenty we were
in the final against Australia, Dubai came up short, Pier
and yeah, Oi World Cup. We know what's up in
there in the in the two times we've been in
the finals, but I think we fourth time lucky. Let's
do it.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Dave Ready, twenty four hours on being named All Blacks coach,
how how do you view this appointment? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Got actually I was, I was in the Renie camp
from the outset. Other than the instead of the Jamie Joseph,
he's been more successful as a as a coach for
around Royal Super Rugby. He actually did it to be
too bad of a job in Australia. He was pretty
unlucky to get the can for Eddie Jones got twelve
(02:29):
months out of before the World Cup and I think
going a bit sort of old school as well. But
what we got I think was it was one hundred
and something days before our first test against who was
at France and Christ Churches. It so no very exciting
and he's not going to play favorites. He said that
in his press conference yesterday. It's going to be it's
(02:51):
going to be fascinating that first squad of the year, the.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
N RAL New Zealand Warriors. Get your campaign underway tomorrow
night against the Roosters. No doubt you'll be there as normal.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yes, yeah, well my works now looking find Saturday nights
you can only go about about half a dozen home
games this year missing missing week one. But I'll be
watching it from the studio on one of the TVs
in there. But yeah, exciting stuff. A lot of a
lot of I think it's about three o the first
all rounds. We've got a home game, which is just
good for the fans at Mount Smart. Your roosters first up.
(03:25):
Here's a bit of still a lot of injury Warrior
worries and the Warriors with especially at the sevens. We've
just stood and they've kept a Mitch Barnette back at Artania.
Correy's not playing Camparira, one of our big signings. He's
got a couple of head not so he's still not
ready to go, but it's going to be exciting time.
(03:45):
We went to the season launch last week in Andrew
Webster and not talking to Harry so Jane Fisher, Harris
and Mitch by next spoken there and they seem pretty confident.
They think they've got the catter to do it. They've
been building nicely, not just at the Warriors. They've put
six sort of teams, feeder teams now inside the club
and I think the sort of plan to get our
(04:08):
premiership to Penrose Mount Smart is slowly becoming closer and
closer with what the club's building now.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
There are opponents tomorrow night. The Sydney Rooster is one
of the favorites for the competition.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yes, yeah, but again they've got sort of players that
are on there last year of the contracts and then
was it Croddington's going over to Wallabies. They've got a
couple of injuries, but it's weak grin. You never know
what's going to happen. If you cast your mind back
to what happened with the Warriors last year, they starts
in Las Vegas and what lost by thirty points of
(04:41):
the canber Raiders and then twelve rounds later they were
second in the comp So you don't want to read
too much into it, and if you look into what
they've done in pre season two losses as well. But yeah,
it's going to be exciting eight o'clock or tomorrow night,
it's yeah, I'm excited. It's going to be a big
What twenty five weeks would be late to look forward
to Andy Who.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Would be favorites for the NRAL this year?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You always look at the defending champions, right Brisband Broncos
have got a still very solid team, Penis Panthers not
probably going to have as many injuries sitting into the
season as they did last year. Those would be the
two that old Circle and it's sort of not going
out on a limb on this one because they've they've
been what defending jamps and they met in the prelims
(05:25):
last year and Preenough had won what five titles in
a row sort of thing. So I think it would
be Penrith and Brisbane for me.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Because in Melbourne Storm the argument's there they just can't
get the job done and some fantastic players there, Cameron
Munster and Harry Ground they haven't won a premiership.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, well I think it is. It's a very tough
era to win a premiership in the Narl Was as
mentioned before, what was Pennis won four in a row,
five in a row. He's been sort of hasn't been
sort of dominated by a side like Penis Panthers and
in a wee while really like if you look back
in the twenty tens to two thousand sort of twenties,
(06:03):
it was the Kronella Sharks one one, the Cowboys one one.
There's a whole lot of different winner. Saint George Rabbit
O's everybody sort of had a bit of a go
from twenty twenty to twenty twenty six that we're in now,
it's just been Penrith and Brisbane. So yeah, I think
it's been a bit of a tough era for most
teams to win a title to get over that line.
(06:25):
But you can't rule them out. Camera Raiders. That's another
team at a fantastic season our regular season last year,
and then they were out in straight sets in the playoffs.
So no, it's good. It's going to be interesting. It's
one of those comps where the top of the table
can lose to the team in fifteenth and any any
sort of round. So no, very exciting times.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Good on you, Me and Kate always appreciate your time
up the LAS.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Thanks Andy, go to Bay as well. Laugh out loud
with ad Proud because life on the land can be
a laughing matter.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Brought to us by sheer Well Data looking to help
the livestock farmer. A man is stranded on a desert
island for ten years, but one day he sees a
beautiful woman rowing towards him wearing a wet suit. You
can't believe his eyes. She steps into the sand and says,
how long since you've had a cigarette? He goes ten years.
She unzips a waterproof pocket and pulls one out. He
smokes it with tears in his eyes. How long is
(07:19):
he says, I've had a drink ten years. She unzips
another pocket and hands him a flask. He drinks and
starts crying. She slowly starts on zipping a wet suit
and says, how long it is since you've played around?
The man jumps up and down and says, don't tell
me you've got golf clubs too. That's us for the afternoon,
(07:39):
Done and dusted. My name's Andy Muher. You've been listening
to the Musterine hockenho He thinks of Peter Geneix podcasts
coming up shortly see tomorrow
Alton John is the music for a Thursday. You're listening
to the muster one Hakanui. Our next guess is Mark Kelly,
sports podcast producer for Newstalk zb all these sporting podcasts,
Rugby Direct and the likes Rugby leg about to kick
off for Mark Kelly's on the tools putting everything together
and joins us this afternoon, Mk. Good afternoon, Good Andy.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
How are you mate?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Always good down in gtown? Buddy? Hey, look straight off
the bat? How good was finale last night? How good
were the black Caps overall?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah? Unbelievable, wasn't it. It's for old South Africa. We're
really their bogey team when it comes to knock out
cricket at World Cups. And yeah, great bowling to start
and hea, what did we get it with forty three
deliveries or something ridiculously to go one hundred or thirty three?
That's it's the sort of stuff you can't even really
(00:56):
do on sick cricket back in the day. So no
awesome stuff. And we'll wait and see if it's India
or England in the final. What is it Monday morning?
So not very exciting stuff for the black Caps. We've
been up and down in that T twenty World Cup,
it's pretty safe to say. But another final and let's
hope we can actually get the white ball World champs.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
In full credits of the Black Cats staff for planning
this TA tweenty series with India prior to the Cricket
World Cup, it's paid off.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, yeah, well, they definitely learned from their lessons in
that last World Cup in the West Indies and United
States where they just didn't have any warm up games
at all. Lost the first game to Afghanistan, lost the
West Indies the next game, and boom that was their
sort of tournament over. So now they've learned the lessons,
and yeah, it's great to see, as I said, those
(01:45):
fingers and toes cross that we can get this final
over the line, because what was it twenty we were
in the final against Australia, Dubai came up short, Pier
and yeah, Oi World Cup. We know what's up in
there in the in the two times we've been in
the finals, but I think we fourth time lucky. Let's
do it.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Dave Ready, twenty four hours on being named All Blacks coach,
how how do you view this appointment? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Got actually I was, I was in the Renie camp
from the outset. Other than the instead of the Jamie Joseph,
he's been more successful as a as a coach for
around Royal Super Rugby. He actually did it to be
too bad of a job in Australia. He was pretty
unlucky to get the can for Eddie Jones got twelve
(02:29):
months out of before the World Cup and I think
going a bit sort of old school as well. But
what we got I think was it was one hundred
and something days before our first test against who was
at France and Christ Churches. It so no very exciting
and he's not going to play favorites. He said that
in his press conference yesterday. It's going to be it's
(02:51):
going to be fascinating that first squad of the year, the.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
N RAL New Zealand Warriors. Get your campaign underway tomorrow
night against the Roosters. No doubt you'll be there as normal.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yes, yeah, well my works now looking find Saturday nights
you can only go about about half a dozen home
games this year missing missing week one. But I'll be
watching it from the studio on one of the TVs
in there. But yeah, exciting stuff. A lot of a
lot of I think it's about three o the first
all rounds. We've got a home game, which is just
good for the fans at Mount Smart. Your roosters first up.
(03:25):
Here's a bit of still a lot of injury Warrior
worries and the Warriors with especially at the sevens. We've
just stood and they've kept a Mitch Barnette back at Artania.
Correy's not playing Camparira, one of our big signings. He's
got a couple of head not so he's still not
ready to go, but it's going to be exciting time.
(03:45):
We went to the season launch last week in Andrew
Webster and not talking to Harry so Jane Fisher, Harris
and Mitch by next spoken there and they seem pretty confident.
They think they've got the catter to do it. They've
been building nicely, not just at the Warriors. They've put
six sort of teams, feeder teams now inside the club
and I think the sort of plan to get our
(04:08):
premiership to Penrose Mount Smart is slowly becoming closer and
closer with what the club's building now.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
There are opponents tomorrow night. The Sydney Rooster is one
of the favorites for the competition.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yes, yeah, but again they've got sort of players that
are on there last year of the contracts and then
was it Croddington's going over to Wallabies. They've got a
couple of injuries, but it's weak grin. You never know
what's going to happen. If you cast your mind back
to what happened with the Warriors last year, they starts
in Las Vegas and what lost by thirty points of
(04:41):
the canber Raiders and then twelve rounds later they were
second in the comp So you don't want to read
too much into it, and if you look into what
they've done in pre season two losses as well. But yeah,
it's going to be exciting eight o'clock or tomorrow night,
it's yeah, I'm excited. It's going to be a big
What twenty five weeks would be late to look forward
to Andy Who.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Would be favorites for the NRAL this year?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You always look at the defending champions, right Brisband Broncos
have got a still very solid team, Penis Panthers not
probably going to have as many injuries sitting into the
season as they did last year. Those would be the
two that old Circle and it's sort of not going
out on a limb on this one because they've they've
been what defending jamps and they met in the prelims
(05:25):
last year and Preenough had won what five titles in
a row sort of thing. So I think it would
be Penrith and Brisbane for me.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Because in Melbourne Storm the argument's there they just can't
get the job done and some fantastic players there, Cameron
Munster and Harry Ground they haven't won a premiership.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, well I think it is. It's a very tough
era to win a premiership in the Narl Was as
mentioned before, what was Pennis won four in a row,
five in a row. He's been sort of hasn't been
sort of dominated by a side like Penis Panthers and
in a wee while really like if you look back
in the twenty tens to two thousand sort of twenties,
(06:03):
it was the Kronella Sharks one one, the Cowboys one one.
There's a whole lot of different winner. Saint George Rabbit
O's everybody sort of had a bit of a go
from twenty twenty to twenty twenty six that we're in now,
it's just been Penrith and Brisbane. So yeah, I think
it's been a bit of a tough era for most
teams to win a title to get over that line.
(06:25):
But you can't rule them out. Camera Raiders. That's another
team at a fantastic season our regular season last year,
and then they were out in straight sets in the playoffs.
So no, it's good. It's going to be interesting. It's
one of those comps where the top of the table
can lose to the team in fifteenth and any any
sort of round. So no, very exciting times.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Good on you, Me and Kate always appreciate your time
up the LAS.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Thanks Andy, go to Bay as well. Laugh out loud
with ad Proud because life on the land can be
a laughing matter.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Brought to us by sheer Well Data looking to help
the livestock farmer. A man is stranded on a desert
island for ten years, but one day he sees a
beautiful woman rowing towards him wearing a wet suit. You
can't believe his eyes. She steps into the sand and says,
how long since you've had a cigarette? He goes ten years.
She unzips a waterproof pocket and pulls one out. He
smokes it with tears in his eyes. How long is
(07:19):
he says, I've had a drink ten years. She unzips
another pocket and hands him a flask. He drinks and
starts crying. She slowly starts on zipping a wet suit
and says, how long it is since you've played around?
The man jumps up and down and says, don't tell
me you've got golf clubs too. That's us for the afternoon,
(07:39):
Done and dusted. My name's Andy Muher. You've been listening
to the Musterine hockenho He thinks of Peter Geneix podcasts
coming up shortly see tomorrow
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