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Braving this sweltering El Nino heat, Will and Brad get the TWL podcast ball rolling for 2024 with a few cold ones on a Saturday afternoon. There's some off-season news to unpack, line-up talking points, no shortage of off-topic tangents and - to mark the club's 30th season - the inaugural instalment of This Warriors Life's 30 for 30, all-time hottest Warriors. 

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Fonzie caught up with his old mate Deano the Dragon over (quite) a few late night beers. It was a long, rambling conversation and at some stage they forgot they were recording - so we basically cut out the whole second half of the chat. Deano does say plenty of nice things about the Warriors, though, and reckons we'll beat his Dragons by 30 this weekend...

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Fonzie is back with a bang after a couple of weeks off - and he's got a mixed reaction to Friday's blowout of the Dragons, while Will is a bit more sated by the patchy-but-convincing result. Despite a spicy debate about the importance of current ladder position, both agree the Warriors have a massive opportunity to do something special over the next few months.

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Will and Brad survived the excruciating boredom of the Warriors' bye weekend and Fonzie survived his night on the hill at Leichhardt. so the TWL throuple is back with a big ep dissecting CHT's shock return, unpicking a massive clash with the Origin-ravaged Broncos in Napier and, most importantly, welcoming on-board our brand new sponsor - the humble, Warriors-mad legends at Kingz Container Crew!

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The Will-Brad-Fonz throuple address the officiating furore that has engulfed the Warriors in recent days, along with a breakdown of the loss to the Panthers, why our attack's been less effective of late, and how the line-up changes will feed into Friday's vital showdown with the Bulldogs.

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Despite being in the grips of a debilitating new ailment, nothing was gonna stop Will from celebrating Brad's 100th appearance on the TWL podcast. Going back to our roots, there's tangents, stats, poor audio and West Coast stories.

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With Fonzie and Brad on the bye, Will's joined by veteran NZ Herald rugby league scribe and all-round GC Michael Burgess to provide an insider's insight to the Warriors' stunning 2023 resurgence under Andrew Webster.

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Taking a couple of extra days to process the Warriors' most disappointing display of 2023 to date, Will and Fonzie unpack the 34-24 defeat to the Knights and still find some genuine positives - chief among them Tom Ale's breakout performance. Injuries are piling up and there's a fair bit of discussion around how to cover those, along with the perpetual Pompey enigma, the perplexing Bunty situation and DWZ waiting in the wings. Massive game this Saturday against the Cowboys ahead of a very tough three-week stretch in the schedule.

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Toot toot! All aboard the Webster-led 2023 Warriors locomotive - there's room for everyone and we're stoked to have ya, day-oners and fairweathers alike.

Will and Fonzie attempt to sum up the wildest of wild Sunday afternoons in the Shire, before Brad injects himself with Dylan Walker-like impact and versatility after getting a late 18th man call.

It was a win deserving of a throuple pod and the giddiness at how well the club is going from top to bottom is hard to suppress.

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Short, sharp and stoked would be the best way to sum up Will and Fonz's review of the Warriors' tight win over the Bulldogs that clocks in at an uncustomarily concise half hour. Shaun Johnson's renaissance has got everyone feeling frisky, while there's some potential injury permutations to unpack ahead of this week's road trip to take on the Sharks. (Intro/outro credit: Mousse T/Hot 'N' Juicy)

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Not sure if it's possible for you to enjoy this one as much as Brad and Will did, but an absolute buzz to have all-round Kiwi legend Dai Henwood on This Warriors Life's podcast. Dai loves rugby league, the Warriors and going off on tangents, so he was a dream guest for TWL and it was an honour to have a hilarious, heartwarming and life-affirming hour with him.

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Dai Henwood - Jacqui Brown interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAai6vGY4B4

Dai Henwood - Dom Harvey's Runners Only podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUKpqMs7a0c

Dai Henwood - Alternative Commentary Collective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQoof4nT6LU

Tune in to the ACC's commentary coverage of every Warriors game in 2023 on Sky Sports!

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A straight-up-the-guts recap of Saturday's defeat to the Roosters, with Fonzie taking an optimistic but circumspect approach to the Warriors' rebirth and Will allowing himself to get caught up in the emotion of the new Webster era - albeit with a couple of concerns. Plus a look at the array of solutions available to some potential injury setbacks for Round 3 and a look ahead to a tasty Townsville showdown with the Cowboys.

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Will and Brad coming at ya on a Sunday to mark a momentous Warriors Round 1 victory on Friday - though Larking is still a bit bleary-eyed from from his birthday celebrations that meant he only caught the game on Saturday morning. Plenty to unpack from the gritty 20-12 defeat of the Knights, plus bonus chest freezer chat.

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The power throuple are back together for the first time in 2023 as Fonzie takes a step back from his SENZ hobnobbing to slum it with Will and Brad. There's a wrap from the final trial - including standouts and where the likes of SJ and Kosi stand after unhappy games - plus news, an updated likely 17 for Round 1, a broader season preview where we declare the KPIs we'd like the Warriors to hit, some over/under predictions for the year, and handshake debacles.

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Hear Fonz with Ian Smith on SENZ here

Correct pronunciation of 'Rocco'

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The TWL podcast is back for 2023...and Will and Brad are rustier than an old gate and only half as effective to kick things off. The same can't be said of the Warriors, though, who carved up in their first trial against the Tigers, providing the boys with plenty to talk about (on top of the usual tangential nonsense - including easy-peel agony, credit card expiry despair and an IRD scam near-miss). 

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TWL limped towards the end of 2022, so we like to think of this as the first episode of the new season - and a new era. Fittingly, Will, Brad and Fonz were joined by the Warriors' man of the moment, incoming head coach Andrew Webster, for a fascinating hour of chat. The boys might be a little bit smitten with our new gaffer, just quietly: a deep thinker, passionate about the challenge ahead and a bloody good fella. Enjoy!

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 After a two-month hiatus, Fonz, Will and Brad have finally got their act together - and recovered enough psychologically and spiritually - to give a fast and loose review of the Warriors' wretched 2022 season. Thanks for your patience ❤️ 

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Just days out from their long-awaited irl meeting, Will and Fonzie burst through the out-of-finals-contention malaise to pick apart the glut of Warriors news that's dropped in recent days, as well as some line-up changes this week and permutations for 2023, the NAS farce and some Kosi love. 

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With Fonzie caught in the rat race, self-employed duo Will and Brad embark on a typically carefree, tangential, aimless Friday arvo pod. But if you're into Canberra trivia, maths exam cheating and looking down your nose at rugby union, this could be the episode for you. 

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 It's a rare full pod with the TWL throuple - and Will, Brad and Fonz have got plenty to catch up on after the torrent of recent Warriors-related news. Plus we look ahead to the Eels clash on Friday and even had some time for a game of Over/Under and True or False?  

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