NRL trials

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NRL LIVE: Warriors running riot as star 'whacks' Tiger with Sheens ... (Fox Sports)

NRL LIVE: Warriors running riot as star 'whacks' Tiger with Sheens 2.0 off to horror start.

Sione Fainu 22. Sione Vaihu 20. The NRL’s pre-season is set to kick off with a number of new faces lining up for both the Warriors and Tigers at Mt Smart Stadium. Brandon Tumeth 12. Brandon Wakeham 8. The Tigers have hit back with quick-fire tries to Trey Peni and Stefano Utoikamanu and a comeback looked on the cards. The second coming of Tim Sheens at the Wests Tigers is off to a slow start, with a fired-up Warriors running rampant in the first NRL trial of 2023. Montoya also picked up where he left off in the second half and crossed for his hat-trick in the 50th minute. But the fullback couldn’t make it two in two minutes, with Montoya taking a cut-out at full pace and bulldozing Staines to score his second. “First man to score a hat-trick in 2023 and there might be more to come, I don’t think he’s put his cue in the rack just yet.” Sharks recruit Luke Metcalf is having a blinder and scored the first try of the second half with a brilliant individual effort. The Warriors scored twice in the opening 13 minutes as Marcelo Montoya and Jackson Ford both crossed for soft tries at Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland.

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NRL 2023 trials as it happened: RLPA action delayed as Warriors ... (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Players held fire on plans to disrupt the NRL's new pre-season tournament as the Warriors ran riot and rained all over the first Tigers hit-out for ...

Especially that bloke who does shoeies in front of the coaches box - snuck on camera just before fulltime. Good luck to whoever sorts that out. Still to be determined - how many bonus points each team finished with.

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LIVE: Tigers pumped in ominous pre-season worry (Wide World of Sports)

Welcome to Wide World of Sports' LIVE coverage of the first official NRL trial for the year between the Wa...

"It's been exciting tonight - good signs for the Warriors. "I think it's a huge thing for us … Brandon Wakeham nails the conversion and the Tigers are on the board. "He's really good … We'll be back tomorrow night, when the Knights take on the Sharks, and the Rabbitohs play the Sea Eagles. Thanks for joining us for the first night of the NRL Pre-Season Challenge.

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NRL Pre season challenge, trial games results, match reports ... (ESPN Australia)

The Andrew Webster era in New Zealand has begun with a comprehensive 48-12 victory over Wests Tigers as the Warriors kicked off their 2023 preseason trial ...

Broncos vs. Warriors vs. Dragons vs. Panthers vs. Knights vs. "We played a pretty young team so we can't expect much from that.

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Andrew Webster cautiously pleased with Warriors' NRL trial win over ... (Stuff.co.nz)

The new Warriors coach wasn't getting carried away after the 48-12 win over Wests Tigers, but saw plenty that he liked.

“Slade Griffin is full-time, he’s the reserve grade coach. That’s particularly the case with Taine Tuaupiki, Solomon Vasuvulagi and Moala Graham-Taufa, although they’re certainly not the only ones. And I thought Luke did a really god job of getting us around the field. “Things like Te Maire with his kick pressure, it was really cool, his effort plays. “So I thought the way they prepared for the game was excellent, but we’ve got to put things in perspective, it was a trial and we’ve got to move on to the next stage.” “We know what we wanted to achieve and I just wanted to walk off and say to the boys ‘did we see what we practised?’

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