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If this is to finally be the NZ Warriors' year, the recipe for success seems simple enough.
"If you're asking me what needs to happen, we need to do what we do better for longer," coach Andrew Webster teased, as he addressed media for the first time in 2026.
"That's a pretty similar response from me for a long time now. When we do it well, we do it really well - that's why we've made the playoffs twice in the last three years - but we're not here to do that.
"We're here to win the whole thing."
Last sighted, Webster painted a forlorn picture, reflecting on his team's one-and-done exit from the NRL playoffs against four-time defending champions Penrith Panthers.
"I just feel we've built some great stuff, but that last piece is missing." he lamented last September.
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