AFTER five straight defeats Warrington Wolves’ coach Daryl Powell has offered to meet fans who travelled to Hull KR, while young hooker Danny Walker has taken to Twitter to apologise for recent performances, also criticising those who posted on social media “telling lads to die.”
Frustrated fans bombarded the club’s social media channels following Friday night’s 34-18 defeat at Hull KR – the fifth straight defeat and worst run of form since 2017.
A handful also posted comments telling players to die. One targetted the club’s leading try-scorer Josh Charnley, one hoping his caravan got “bricked” and another tweeting “hope he dies,” “he doesn’t deserve to live at this point.”
Warrington North MP Charlotte Nichols also took to Twitter with a tongue in cheek post, pointing out the club hadn’t won a match since handing a club shirt to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, during his recent visit to Warrington Hospital.
Meanwhile, coach Daryl Powell has offered to meet fans that travelled to Hull KR saying he was “fuming” with the performance.
Powell said in his post-match press conference that he would be happy to sit down with any travelling fan and give insight on his plans, saying “I’d like to sit down with fans and explain how I want to turn things around. I’d be pretty disappointed coming and watching those players. I’d be fuming if I was them.
“I’m not one for walking away from anything, from people, or from a job or anything. I’m 100% committed to making sure this works, and I know it will seem a long way away, but I guarantee it will happen.”
He added: “Defensively, we were miles off. I’m coming in to a few of these now and it’s tough. I look back through my coaching career and I rarely see five straight losses, and the disappointing thing is we’re not turning it around quickly enough.
“It’s a blessing in disguise that we haven’t got a game next week. It gives us a chance to get after that we need to do.
“We’ve got no durability as a team at the moment. Teams are finding us pretty easy to break down.
“We haven’t got a lot of players playing to their potential at the moment.
“The start was calamitous. We didn’t have one defensive set where something didn’t go wrong.
“At the end of the day, I was brought in to change the culture and that needs changing, and I’m working hard on that at the moment.
“Losing games hurts badly and we’re losing games consistently, but we’ve got to keep working hard, we’ve got a week to reset and it’s still early enough in the season to turn it around.”
Can only apologise to the fans for what’s being dished up at the minute, we need to learn our lessons & learn them fast to get ourselves out of the situation we are in. We all as a collective need to stick together & keep graftin away and it’ll come 💯!
— Danny (@dannyjoewalker) April 2, 2022
Thanks to the loyal fans still turnin up & backin us, we need use now more than we ever have. As for the handful of 🔔 ends giving lads all sorts of 💩 including some telling lads to die. Be best for both sides if use just didn’t support us again. Anyway, have a nice weekend 💙💛
— Danny (@dannyjoewalker) April 2, 2022
Warrington Wolves haven’t won a single game since Boris Johnson was photographed holding one of our shirts. Coincidence? I think not! #JustSaying https://t.co/VkT2P2YRf0
— Charlotte Nichols (@charlotte2153) April 2, 2022
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Wow. Disgraceful