The Warriors are eager to get down to the business of preparing for the NRL season after arriving for what CEO Cameron George described in an open letter to the club's supporters as "another journey for our club".
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Tamworth has once again been transformed into Warriorstown with the New Zealand side flying in on Sunday for a month long stay in the city that has become their home away from home after quarantining here last May ahead of the restart of the 2020 competition.
Using Scully Park as a training base, it will be the first time the full squad has been able to train together since they began pre-season training in mid-November with a contingent training in Kiama and the New Zealand-based players back in Auckland.
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The start of a minimum three-month stint in Australia with the club committing to remain until at least April 4, George said the feeling amongst the group was "very good".
"Everyone's really excited about getting back to training and work, and the great thing about coming back to Tamworth is it's familiar to a lot of the players and they're very comfortable about the set-up," he said.
"Wests Leagues is a fantastic training facility and we're just really happy to get here and get on with it now."
"We've been separated for the last three months, since the season finished, so to have the whole group together now is going to be great."
He said having been through it all last year there was less apprehension about what lies for the players, and from a club perspective.
"We were much better planned this year. Obviously like everyone, things just happened overnight (last year) but this year we were able to plan it and be sort of a little bit ahead of the game so that made us all feel a lot more comfortable with our plans and it wasn't so unknown to us as it was last year," he said.
Last year restricted to the confines of the Scully Park precinct, with the rules a lot more relaxed this time round, George said the players are looking forward to seeing more of the city and engaging with the local community.
"We want to do some stuff with the community," he said.
"We really want to give back to Tamworth this time because last time we couldn't."
"We really want to say thank you."
Nothing has been set in concrete yet but he said they are talking to Wests Leagues about potential sportsman's dinners. There is also the potential for coaching clinics.
"I think for us it's waiting for a bit later in the month when a lot of people are back from holidays," he said.
