Warriors Winning Ways Continue!

It was a funny kind of week in the NRL in terms of being able to pick winners with some pretty decent upsets taking place – who would have picked the off form Raiders to beat the Storm in Melbourne? Not me, that’s for sure. The really important news from the weekend is that the Warriors won (AGAIN!!!) and have well and truly cemented themselves in the top eight for now.  We are coming second in the overall in the club championship (Melbourne is ahead of us at present).

The boys return home to Mt Smart after a long road trip and have an awesome deal on tickets for families – a $40 Family pass (2 adults, 3 kids), it is available for four days only and tickets are only available in the South Stand. This great offer expires at 5pm on Thursday 19 May and will give you a saving of 55% on game day prices! So get in quick and support our boys.

I’ve been a bad blogger!

I had the best of intentions to keep ‘League Chick’ up to date this year but I am failing miserably! At present I am watching the Rabbitohs v Tigers game, it is just past half time and the Bunny’s are thumping the Tigers 27-0! The Tigers are so hot and cold this season, if I pick against them they win and if I think they will win they lose – go figure! To be honest with the Warriors playing the Bunny’s next weekend I am quite happy for them to have a win (maybe not such a convincing one)  so they aren’t so desperate next week when the Warriors face them at Mt Smart.

I am also very pleased to be able to blog that the Warriors have won five from their last six games and are sitting at eighth on the table and the U20’s are again doing very well, currently sitting at second in the Toyota Cup.

My little Warrior is keeping me very busy (in the best way – of course). He absolutely loves league, when he watches the Sunday afternoon games it is not uncommon for him to cry at the end of a game! When he is really upset and I turn on a game he stops and is instantly drawn in, I don’t know if it is the colours, or the familiarity of the sounds that he has been hearing since in-utero, whatever it is I find it incredibly amusing.

Max – my little Warrior, watching how the big boys play

Some preview shots from family photos we had done – maybe his love of league is in the blood after all!

If you want updates on Max the little Warrior you can follow his progress here at ‘The Fantastic Life of Max’. Hopefully I will be able to update this blog with some more good Warriors news soon! Go the Mighty Warriors against the Knights tomorrow!!!

There is also excitement in our household over the first State of Origin match of 2011 happening this coming Wednesday – Fingers crossed for another year of Maroon dominance!

Good News For NZ Rugby League

Today the Warriors signed Parramatta Eels players, Feleti Mateo and Krisnan Inu to three year deals. This is great news for the club, but the Warriors will need to sign a decent sized prop to take the ball up, if they want to improve their chances of playing football in September! In other signing news, the Warriors have also managed to sign Michael Luck to the end of the 2012 season. Luck consistently works hard and provides good leadership on the field, regardless of whether there is a C next to his name.

Last Friday night the Kiwis played the Kangaroos in the annual ANZAC test, although the boys went down 12-8 there was plenty to be happy about. Kearny put a young and relatively inexperienced team  on the field. Many people expected a 30 point plus blow out but the rain proved once again to be the great leveller and the boys in black put in a pretty gutsy defensive effort. I will look forward to seeing the Kiwis on home turf at the end of the year as part of the Four Nations tournament.

Because of the Kiwis game, the Warriors had a bye and banked two valuable competition points. Lets hope the rest has done them good and they are able to produce a solid effort at home against the Cowboys this weekend. This game should see the return of injured players, Mannering, Vatuvei and Seymor.