{"id":472278,"date":"2026-06-11T16:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/472278\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:16:16","slug":"from-war-zones-to-up-the-wahs-mike-mcroberts-warriors-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/472278\/","title":{"rendered":"From war zones to \u2018Up the Wahs\u2019: Mike McRoberts\u2019 Warriors obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">The episode dives deep into what being a Warriors fan really means in 2026: a club transformed under Andrew Webster, a squad bursting with depth, and a fanbase riding the intoxicating wave of belief. McRoberts reckons this is the best squad he\u2019s seen and, for once, the hope might not damage his emotional state. There\u2019s also love for the culture the team had embraced of both M\u0101ori and Pasifika identity, the organic rise of \u201cUp the Wahs\u201d and a community connection few teams can match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">For McRoberts, the Warriors now feel like New Zealand\u2019s team in a way they never have before. It\u2019s funny, nostalgic, deeply Kiwi, and occasionally unhinged \u2013 everything you want from an ACC yarn from the back seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">Listen to the full episode of Off The Back Seat to hear the lot: VPN confessions, jersey disasters, and one man\u2019s love affair with the Wahs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The episode dives deep into what being a Warriors fan really means in 2026: a club transformed under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6030,96415,13503,71,1457,1456,111,139,69,6300,213,223,5662,20110,61,810,238519,6149,3006,3608,30209],"class_list":["post-472278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-again","tag-diehard","tag-fan","tag-from","tag-mcroberts","tag-mike","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-obsession","tag-sports","tag-the","tag-think","tag-thought","tag-to","tag-up","tag-wahs","tag-war","tag-warriors","tag-were","tag-zones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}