Sky Sport Presents: Playmakers

No one fits the description of a playmaker better than Tai Webster. The Tall Blacks guard is back at the Sky Sport Breakers, and will be a key part of their 2021 NBL season. Sky Sport presenter Jeff McTainsh catches up with the globe-trotting Webster, to preview the upcoming season, his journey to the top, and his experiences in Nebraska, Germany and Turkey.

Goran Paladin sits down with the new coach of the Warriors, Nathan Brown.

In his most in-depth interview since taking on New Zealand sport’s toughest job, Brown speaks of the pressures that come with coaching, why his previous experience has made him the man he is today, and how he’s going to push the Warriors towards that elusive NRL premiership.

Rugby league great Adam Blair talks to Goran Paladin about his colourful career.

In part two, the former Kiwis captain gives an honest appraisal of New Zealand’s disastrous 2017 World Cup campaign, his relationship with supercoaches Craig Bellamy and Wayne Bennett, signing with the Warriors, and life inside the NRL bubble, as Covid played havoc with the 2020 season.

New Zealand rugby league great Adam Blair talks to Goran Paladin about his colourful career.

In part one, the former Kiwis captain opens up about his early troubles in Melbourne and how his NRL career almost ended before it began, the salary cap controversy at the Storm, his unhappy time with the Tigers, and how the brawler became a Bronco under Wayne Bennett, playing in one of the greatest Grand Finals of all-time, the 2015 decider against the Cowboys.

Sky Sport delves into some of rugby's best stories from the characters that have made the game great. This week, Mils Muliaina catches up with one of New Zealand Rugby's most colourful figures, Adam Thomson. Find out how Sevens changed his career, how he recovered from 57 days in a Tokyo hospital, what inspired his famous try-scoring celebration, and whether he's going to make another NPC comeback.