Leuluai joins Wire performance team
Wolves appoint Samoan International Kylie Leuluai as the club’s head of rugby operations.

In his time at Leeds he played in six Grand Finals, five Challenge Cup Finals and five World Club Challenge matches; winning a total of 10.

He will work on player welfare and with the first grade team on all administrative, logistical and operational aspects, and integration with the youth grades.

"Kylie's been on-board with the welfare at Leeds since retiring from playing and I feel he can bring that experience with him and contribute a lot to the culture within the club, instilling high standards across the board. He will be a great asset to all performance staff members and to what we are looking to build here at Warrington Wolves.” Price

Welcome to the team Kylie

Winning culture

What a difference a couple of months make.....

Was watching that first half against Halifax any lower. ...
Yet here we are with a new coach, a new assistant coach, a 26 year old NRL marqee halfback.

And now further improvements to the operations staff.

Plus Murdoch masila on the horizon and maybe some more signings ..

They only Have to bring back the wireball fireball and I'll be as happy as a pig in Widnes. ...

As he taken Mather’s position.

Sounds Like he'll be Mathers' boss. ....

And Mathers has already taken to Twitter to welcome him....!!

mathers seems to have got the job of professional flesh presser now. Whether thats geoff and karls idea to network with potential sponsors.

Technically he's taking over from KF isn't he?

put him on the wing

Will his salary count on the cap?

I jest..

Mathers also does a lot of hosting of hospitality guests on match days and that sort of stuff.

This.

Yeah, not quite all that matters but I’d take people like Peacock for the same reason. Isn’t that what Morley brought us too?

Why? How much "winning culture" did he bring to hull kr other than relegation?

What experience does leuluai have for the job? None.

Regards

King James

Whatever

Sportinglife has also termed him as "head of rugby operations" whatever that entails.

Here is a link to a job spec that Glasgow Warriors put out when they were recruiting a Rugby Operations Manager a few years ago www.glasgowwarriors.org/sites/de ... 2014_2.pdf

Here is a link to a job spec that Glasgow Warriors put out when they were recruiting a Rugby Operations Manager a few years ago www.glasgowwarriors.org/sites/de ... 2014_2.pdf

Seems to be quite an involved position within the club & fringing on head coaches job/HR manager & "buck stops here" patsy.

All that admin stuff is a smokescreen. He’s coming solely to change the culture from within.

He’s a winner and won’t accept anything other than 100% commitment and exceptional behaviour.

His team talks are quite something too.

It’s an inspired appointment by our Chief Exec.

This winning culture stuff sounds great, but it will be interesting to see how it plays out in the current era of relative player power, especially among younger players.

In recent seasons something has been creeping in to RL, where a young player comes in to the team and immediately has a load of cheerleaders on social media, and on forums, and people round him telling him how good he is. Before long he's on twitter becoming a mini celebrity and developing a precious ego. Then if his performances start to tail off, if the coach doesn't tolerate it and starts giving him home truths or drops him, all hell will break loose. The player moans to his mates, who go and post on forums along with his cheerleaders, cryptic tweets go out, rumours start that the player is unhappy, and the bad guy in the eyes of the fans is the coach. The coach is the one who is ruining young talent and risking him go elsewhere.

If Leuluai starts being tough on players that don't meet his expectations of attitude next year, I wonder if we will start seeing posts on here about 'rumours are that Leuluai is unsettling the players, causing rifts in the dressing room, X wants out it will be a shambles if we lose yet another of our great talents'.

I know you’re emphasising the irony a little here but it’s an interesting point. Price has said he wants to instil the right attitude from the juniors right he way up through the system and that he’ll be working very closely and be very hands-on with those aspects. I’m not saying that will serve to control all bad attitudes but it may help to give more realistic expectations and encourage juniors to bide their time.

If you look at Wigan, there’s a high level of discipline and standards from the bottom up (since Maguire?) and despite the many youngsters that roll off their production line and don’t end up staying at the club, you don’t hear of many attitude problems over being dropped etc. Look at Tierney - he’s Wigan royalty yet he’s accepted his place and it’s not on the flanks of his hometown club.

The sooner all the players subscribe to the new regime, the better. Most of the seniors seem enthusiastic about it and wanted a freshening-up of ideas.

Does that include having a day out at Haydock Park

Bateman is not a product of their youth

Now davis and marshall possibly not even in the starting 17 next year if burgess and manfredi are fit is a better comparison burgess is a starter leave in 3 fighting for one spot. There will be little discontent and that's not going to be entirely down to the player accepting it or wane alone managing their expectations. This is something warrington have not done as well or as consistent as we should have.

Leuluai and Mathers will form a different relationship with the players to what they have with price and henderson. There's nothing wrong with a player being disappointed with not being selected it should be driving them on to improve. There is something wrong with a player not being selected and questioning the coach irrespective of their point being valid there should be a channel in which they can voice their concerns, and last season they either didn't have one, feel confidant in who it was or didn't feel it would be heard or acted on.

The senior players will be key to this. Not only do they need to show they are behind the new regime but also show some leadership on the field in the early part of the season because the ability of Price to stamp his mark on the club with a new attitude will depend almost entirely on results.

If we win 10 of the first 12 games and are top of the league and Price wants to call out a player for not showing the right attitude, the player will know that it's fit in or be shipped out, and he will see Warrington as a team going places and if he knows whats good for him he will sort his attitude out. If it comes down to a battle of wills between a disgruntled player who doesn't like being called out by the coach, he will know that there will be only one winner and he won't get much sympathy from the senior players if they are flying high near the top of the league.

If that same thing happens and we are won 4 lost 8, this forum will be full of posts bringing up Price's record as head coach at St George, saying "he might be good at putting the cones as assistant but he ain't no head coach", "he's the Aussie Agar". That young player knows if it comes down to a battle of wills between him and the coach, he has a good chance of winning. If we have been losing games its likely the coach has also called in to question other players' performances so there will be a few who are in the same boat. They can moan to each other, text each other "this Aussie doesn't know what he's doing", smugly sulk and go through the motions at training knowing that after a while as long as results stay poor, the coach will get the sack before they do.

He's got two years experience as head of Welfare at the games biggest and most successful superleague club.....
He's now got a promotion to become the line manager to that same role at Warrington.... hardly an outrageous appointment.....

I would say hes more qualified to to take this position than your current head coach was to take his

regards and all that..........