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Staff Andrew Webster

Coach Grade
  1. NRL Head Coach
Date of Birth
Jan 17, 1982
Birth Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality
  1. 🇦🇺 Australia
Nickname
Webby
Warriors Debut Date
Mar 3, 2023
Warriors Debut Details
March 3 2023, Round 1 vs Newcastle Knights at SKY Stadium, Wellington, New Zealand
Warriors Years Active
  1. 2015
  2. 2016
  3. 2023
  4. 2024
Signed From
Penrith Panthers (Assistant Coach)
Status
Active
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Webster_(rugby_league)
Rugby League Project
https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/coaches/andrew-webster/summary.html
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Christchurch_Warrior said:
I thought JFH return to NZ was more to do with Whanau than who he was playing with.
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That's what I thought.
Frankly, the worst reason to sign for Club B is "I wanna play with Superstar 7, not against him!" What do you do if he gets an ACL injury on Christmas Day because he tripped over his child (forget the Kiwi player that happened to, I think it was JWH and it was several seasons ago) and can't play for the next season and then the surgery actually didn't go as well as hoped so he's out for another two months and it never comes right and he never plays again?
You should join a club at the very least because you want some of the club's glory to rub off on you to thinking you can be someone to improve things (ie Luai to the Tigers) or the final piece in the puzzle to making and hopefully getting the NRL GF.
 
Defence said:
Isn’t that what all the coaches do?
You have medical staff for a reason.
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Yeah you’re not wrong BUT if the guy is such a great people manager like we’re being told surely he’s knows his decision is final and he could show abit of compassion rather than burning players to the ground - Egan, Ford, Harris and Capewell all come to mind. Who knows maybe a few weeks rest last few seasons as a duty of care and Harris might be going again this year

Harris looked liked burnt toast in the 2023 finals
 
Playdaball said:
If the Warriors have another bad year, will AW be under the pump to retain his coaching position? I believe that the club should have provided him with stronger assistant coaches.
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Stronger assistants goes without saying (turn of phrase, I absolutely bloody agree with you).
My sense is that Webster is the right man.
His Roster is piss weak with lots of imperfections among key positions in the spine and pack.

What he does have in his favor is some greenhorns that could one day be serious NRL players. The best thing the club could do for those players is ignore results and stand by the easy going Aussie head coach that should be left to do what Webster clearly does best/nurture players. Worst thing this club could dream up is sacking Webster.
Beastmode said:
I don’t know maybe just me but I get the impression AW doesn’t really take much consideration into a players health and injuries . He leaves it with the Docs and if they say he’s good to play then he’s good to play…
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As he should. Same attitude every employer in any business adopts if the organization runs professionally.
 
sup42 said:
Stronger assistants goes without saying (turn of phrase, I absolutely bloody agree with you).
My sense is that Webster is the right man.
His Roster is piss weak with lots of imperfections among key positions in the spine and pack.

What he does have in his favor is some greenhorns that could one day be serious NRL players. The best thing the club could do for those players is ignore results and stand by the easy going Aussie head coach that should be left to do what Webster clearly does best/nurture players. Worst thing this club could dream up is sacking Webster.

As he should. Same attitude every employer in any business adopts if the organization runs professionally.
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It’s like working till midnight and boss expecting me to show up 9am next day. Can, but you’d have to be a real C of a boss ..
 
Beastmode said:
It’s like working till midnight and boss expecting me to show up 9am next day. Can, but you’d have to be a real C of a boss ..
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I thought we were talking about medical management of players health. Webster has no medical training, he should have zero opinion on which of his employees are fit to work or not. If I read you right you expect him to have his own opinions and ideas about someone like Tohu. In medical things or all sciences opinions are dangerous, look at what opinions reeked from Covid.
 
sup42 said:
I thought we were talking about medical management of players health. Webster has no medical training, he should have zero opinion on which of his employees are fit to work or not. If I read you right you expect him to have his own opinions and ideas about someone like Tohu. In medical things or all sciences opinions are dangerous, look at what opinions reeked from Covid.
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Whatever.

Good to see you back my guy 😘
 
How good an endorsement is this for Webby from Nathan Cleary when discussing Jett:

“I think it was good for him at a young age to be able to go over there and get out of the Sydney spotlight and the Penrith spotlight, obviously with me and dad [Panthers coach Ivan] attached to the club,” Nathan Cleary said.

“He’s gone over there with a coach that we trust [former Panthers assistant Andrew Webster], he’s a great coach.”

The great Penwah extended whānau.
 
Ever Hopeful said:
How good an endorsement is this for Webby from Nathan Cleary when discussing Jett:

“I think it was good for him at a young age to be able to go over there and get out of the Sydney spotlight and the Penrith spotlight, obviously with me and dad [Panthers coach Ivan] attached to the club,” Nathan Cleary said.

“He’s gone over there with a coach that we trust [former Panthers assistant Andrew Webster], he’s a great coach.”

The great Penwah extended whānau.
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Mitchell Moses in 2023 mentioned in an interview how Webster was a good coach for halves. He mentioned how he liked to get players around the half to give the half something to work off.

I hope he is right. and we see the halves all develop. They have performed in first grade but each of them have flaws. Some of the others like Cleary and Hanson are longer term projects.

Coming off the retirement in a long term half like Johnson could lead to a bit of a hang over. Teams in the past have struggled to replace a former champion. We did ok when Jones left. The halves back then weren't ones that would have been ranked high against the other NRL sides. They got us through to the finals. A credit has to be made to the coach at the time.
 
Ever Hopeful said:
How good an endorsement is this for Webby from Nathan Cleary when discussing Jett:

“I think it was good for him at a young age to be able to go over there and get out of the Sydney spotlight and the Penrith spotlight, obviously with me and dad [Panthers coach Ivan] attached to the club,” Nathan Cleary said.

“He’s gone over there with a coach that we trust [former Panthers assistant Andrew Webster], he’s a great coach.”

The great Penwah extended whānau.
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Who doesn't love a fucken Cleary!
 
Absolutely agree with the point that the Warriors are too quick with the "YOU'RE FIRED!" Button when it comes to coaches.
This year is basically a reverse of last season (not talking exact finishing positions here, but Finals v Not Finals):
2024: Cameron Ciraldo wanted to prove that 2023 wasn't the regular result you'd get from him.
2024: Andrew Webster wanted to prove that 2023 was the regular result you'd get from him.
2025 Positions have been reversed.
Unless the Warriors absolutely screw things up and make the Wooden Spoon, I'd give Mr Webster and Assistants time to see how last year's Harold Matthews champions come through to the NRL...

My personal black mark against Webster and Co - which they didn't really fix over the rest of the season - was WTF was happening that they couldn't get a better performance from the team in the second half of the 6-66 game against the Titans!? Was that players? Coaches? Both?
 
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