{"id":561695,"date":"2026-08-07T10:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561695\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:32:11","slug":"warriors-perform-historic-nga-tamatoa-haka-before-panthers-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561695\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors perform historic Ng\u0101 Tamatoa haka before Panthers clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTonight they hand this haka over to the club.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Panthers were the first team out on the field, led by their coach Ivan Cleary, a former player and coach at the Warriors.<\/p>\n

The Warriors followed shortly afterwards, led by descendants of local iwi Ng\u0101ti Wh\u0101tua \u014cr\u0101kei and wearing their Te \u0100rahi jersey designed specially for this weekend.<\/p>\n

The Warriors proceeded to the middle of the field in an arrow formation led by Erin Clark.<\/p>\n

The Panthers advanced before the Warriors\u2019 M\u0101ori and Pacific contingent performed Ng\u0101 Tamatoa, with the rest of the team standing behind.<\/p>\n

The match is a vital one for the Warriors as they look to keep within touching distance of the league-leading Panthers as the NRL season approaches the finals.<\/p>\n

As of half-time, the Warriors were 18-0 ahead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ben Francis<\/a> is an Auckland-based reporter for the New Zealand Herald who covers breaking sports news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTonight they hand this haka over to the club.\u201d The Panthers were the first team out on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9218,3019,31423,6628,1861,13441,1362,111,43,139,86229,69,16856,16857,24265,34463,276284,165,8229,3006,1316,102,377],"class_list":["post-561695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-before","tag-clash","tag-haka","tag-historic","tag-history","tag-introduced","tag-made","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-ng","tag-nz","tag-panthers","tag-penrith","tag-perform","tag-shortly","tag-tamatoa","tag-their","tag-they","tag-warriors","tag-when","tag-with","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561695","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=561695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}