New Zealand Warriors odds

The New Zealand Warriors became everybody’s second-favourite NRL team in 2020 and weren’t far off reaching the finals despite spending a majority of the season outside of their home country.

The club made some tough calls over the course of the campaign, including the decision to axe Stephen Kearney and appoint Nathan Brown as head coach for 2021.

Can the Warriors improve again and push for a place in the top eight? Let’s see what Australia’s best NRL betting sites have to say.

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Updated NZ Warriors futures odds

Best NZ Warriors bets for NRL 2021

There are dozens of NRL futures markets for the Warriors, but where are they likely to return some real value?

Click on the tabs below to get more analysis on these markets:

• Warriors 2021 premiership betting
  The Warriors won many fans with their gutsy displays in 2020, but there is no way known they are competing for premiership honours in 2021. It would take a huge effort just to make the finals.
  
• Top 8 betting
  The odds are stacked against NZ again this year, but there is a whiff of ambition about this group. With a healthy squad and a bit of luck, they could be a huge nuisance factor in 2021. Finals might be a stretch, but it’s not impossible.
  
• Top tryscorer betting
  David Fusitu’a and Ken Maumalo are hard to split in the NRL top tryscorer market. Both are proven finishers who will want to make an impact in 2021 after missing a big chunk of last year. Maumalo was the more lively of the two in 2020, notching five tries in his eight games, so that’s where our money would go.
  

2021 NZ Warriors draw

NZ Warriors players to watch in 2021

Kodi Nikorima
Born: 3/4/1994
Games: 120
Tries: 29
Position: Five-eighth

Since the departure of Blake Green midway through 2020, the versatile Kodi Nikorima has emerged as a classy operator in the halves. His partnership with Chanel Harris-Tavita will be central to the Warriors’ fortunes this year.

Addin Fonua-Blake
Born: 6/11/1995
Games: 98
Tries: 13
Position: Prop

This might prove to be the signing of the year. Addin Fonua-Blake was a huge presence in Manly’s forward pack, and his partnership with star lock Tohu Harris could help shape the Warriors for years to come.

Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
Born: 5/6/1993
Games: 179
Tries: 54
Position: Fullback

Few players in the NRL are as important to their team as Roger Tuivasa-Sheck is to the Warriors. Can the 2019 Dally M Medal winner drag this side to the finals one last time before he leaves for rugby union next year?

NZ Warriors records and stats

• Player records
  Most games: 301 – Simon Mannering
  Most career points: 917 – Shaun Johnson
  Most career tries: 152 – Manu Vatuvei
  Most points in a season: 242 – Ivan Cleary (2002)
  Most tries in a season: 23 – Francis Meli (2003), David Fusitu’a (2018)
  Most points in a match: 28 – Gene Ngamu (vs. Cowboys, 1996)
  
• Team records
  Most consecutive wins: Eight (2002)
  Most consecutive losses: 11 (2012-13, 2015-16)
  Biggest winning margin: 66-0 (vs. Souths, 2006)
  Biggest losing margin: 6-62 (vs. Panthers, 2013)
  Largest NRL attendance: 38,405 (vs. Eels, 2011)
  
• Warriors NRL history
  While rugby league is the code of choice in Australia, it remains the scrawny little brother in union-mad New Zealand. Nevertheless, league football has enjoyed a healthy cult following in the Auckland area since the early 20th century.

  Serious talk of a NZ-based team joining the NSW Rugby League first arose during the expansion push of the 1980s. Years of campaigning bore fruit in 1995, when the Auckland Warriors were admitted to the newly formed Australian Rugby League. The club switched to the rival Super League for the 1997 season and then joined the reunified NRL in ’98.

  Auckland’s early years were a struggle both on and off the field, so much so that the club was sold in 2000 and rebranded as the New Zealand Warriors. Turning their focus to unheralded local talent, the new-look Warriors marched to their first finals campaign in 2001 and were losing grand finalists in 2002 after claiming the minor premiership.

  A return to hard times was not far away, however. The Warriors finished second from bottom in 2004, 11th in 2005, and 10th in 2006 when they had premiership points deducted due to salary cap breaches the previous season. Ivan Cleary took over in ’06 and steered NZ to three finals series in five years, but the club has struggled to impact the upper half of the table since the 2011 NRL Grand Final defeat to Manly.
  

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