DARYL Powell has offered an explanation as to why Warrington Wolves’ playing style in matches is not coming together as quickly as everybody wants it to.

From his time in charge at Castleford Tigers in particular, the Wire boss is renowned for coaching his players to produce an entertaining brand of expansive rugby but his new team has struggled to fire with the ball in the opening rounds of his first season in charge.

This included Warrington failing to cross the line in a 28-2 loss at St Helens last week and showing poor execution when some opportunities did arise.

It has led to a lot of frustration being vented on social media by supporters.

In Powell’s press conference today, Warrington Guardian sports editor Mike Parsons asked him: Can you shed some insight into the difficulties involved in trying to go from one playing style to another? Because what the fans are seeing at the moment is a quality group of players, highly talented, internationals across the board, Grand Final winners, but the fans can’t grasp why the players can’t go out there and attack to their abilities?

Powell said: “Until you get into the heat of competitive pressure, you’re just training and learning about the way to play. But you don’t really understand it until you get into the heat of it.

“A team that’s going to put you under extreme pressure is St Helens.

“There’s a couple of things.

“There’s the players learning about me, and me learning about the players. Both sides working out exactly how it fits together.

“I think we’ve done some really good things, but we haven’t done it consistently. And we’re still on that journey and it’s still early days.

“I understand the fans getting impatient and they want to see something looking like the way it needs to look. You’ve got a team on the other side trying to stop you doing that, by the way, and sometimes it lacks understanding.

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“People pay money to watch the games and they want to see what they want to see. We’re working hard to give them that and to make it look a certain way but I do think it takes a bit of time – change does.

“Anybody that’s moved to another job, even if it’s in the same field, everything’s different about it – the environment you go to, and people want a different way of working.

“I just think it takes time and we’re working hard. We’re working hard to deliver an outstanding game of rugby league, both sides of the ball. We’re always trying to be perfect.

“I always say, when fans get disappointed – you want to come to my house when we lose a game because you can’t be any more disappointed than me. I’m devastated when we lose a game.

“So I understand fully. I’m working as many hours as I can and the coaching staff are. The players are working hard on growing our game and the way we want it to look.”