Bullock will be gone before philbin. Although if I had a choice I'd keep bullock over philbin or makiele.

Have you employed a defensive coach for 2023?

Ha ! I'll second that.

As a bonus question, I remember the start of the first season Ade Gardner was in charge of fitness. We looked super fit and survived certain depletions against a Wigan side with relative ease. This season just gone ( thankfully ) I don't seem to have seen an equivalent level of fitness which has been compounded by too many second half collapses ..... are they related ?

No need. Defence was faultless apart from when we conceded points.

Gardner is still here, i did wonder the same through the season, but i can't say other than mikaele, anyone has ever really looked out on their feet.

But that doesn't meant that when DP came in, he didn't set a different S&C program with the S&C staff.

Fitness wise we looked fine, it was just the effort from the players that isn't there. And Mikaele has always been the same fitness wise so can't put that on the fitness staff. Mikaele is a MASSIVE guy so will never have a massive engine unless he lost a few stone.

It was filmed Wednesday evening so might be this weekend or early next week i hope at the latest

First snippet https://twitter.com/WarringtonRLFC/stat ... heuYA&s=19

First snippet https://twitter.com/WarringtonRLFC/stat ... heuYA&s=19

Just watched the full interview, 1hr 30 mins. Interesting viewing for sure.

Please could you list any points of note?

Mentions the fact that we had 13 players off contract next year a big factor for our poor season. Says players who were told they were not having their contract renewed weren’t fully committed.

Says he will drop ‘his’ players and he thought Ma’atutia was one of our best players this season which made me nearly spit out my water.

Needed to change the culture here and a few players didn’t like it or see why it had to be changed hence him moving them on.

To be fair i thought the interview was really good. Provided a good insight into the year. I thought Powell was as honest as he could be without naming names (from the answers you could have a good guess as to who he was on about) and Carney asked some questions in a way that most rugby league interviewers would normally not dare to ask.

One thing that stood out for me and I know I keep going on about it. I dont recall the word pressure being mentioned once. It has changed to "tough situations"

It was refreshing to see such an honest approach rather than the usual comfortable questions that normally get asked.