The Glenora Bears won the Fox Memorial Premiership with an emphatic 26-0 victory over the Pt Chevalier Pirates on Saturday. Here’s how we rated each of the players who took the field. Glenora Bears 1 Polima Siaki Handled just about everything thrown at him. Cleaned up nicely as the rain came down in the second […]
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NZ Player of the Week – Rd 14
Each week fans on our social media accounts vote for their NZ Player of the Round, with a running leaderboard which decides the 2017 kiwileaguecentral.com NZ Player of the Year. New Zealand Warriors skipper Roger Tuivasa-Sheck jumps back into the lead of the NZ Player of the Year standings after earning two points in Round […]
17 predictions for NZ league in 2017
Trying to predict stuff in rugby league is fraught with danger at the best of times. Predicting stuff in rugby league before the year has even started is madness. Nonetheless, here are our 17 New Zealand league predictions for 2017. 17. Otahuhu bounce straight back from being relegated last year and win the Auckland second division, […]
Former Kiwis give NZ v Aus predictions
Revisiting Shaun Johnson’s catalogue of match-winning plays
Story by Will Evans The mercurial Shaun Johnson did it again for the Warriors, scoring a brilliant solo try with one minute of golden point remaining to clinch a vital 20-16 victory over Penrith on Saturday. (Photo: Shaun Johnson’s match-winning try in the 2013 RLWC semi-final. Credit: photosport.nz). The Warriors had suffered three agonising golden-point losses […]
The top 10 Sharman Cup players of 2016
NZ top 50: The complete list
After sifting through more than 100 players with links to New Zealand scattered around the NRL and Super League, we have come up with our definitive list of the top 50 Kiwi players in the world right now. 50. Konrad Hurrell – Suspension, injury and some poor form restricted him to just 12 games in 2015. It was […]
NZ top 50: Part 5 (10-1)
After sifting through more than 100 players with links to New Zealand scattered around the NRL and Super League, we have come to the end of our definitive list of the top 50 Kiwi players in the world right now. Among the top 10 are a number of players who are good enough to be playing State of […]
NZ top 50: Part 4 (20-11)
Some of the NRL’s most prolific try scorers and bruising forwards make their way into the top 20 on our list of the 50 best Kiwi players in the world right now. Tomorrow we count down the top 10, culminating with the naming of the best New Zealand player around. 20. Adam Blair – Looked […]
