This week on the fan debate podcast, I'm join by Matt Turner from the Warrington Guardian and Big Warrington Wolves fans David Manfredi and Tom Mather to look forward to Warrington's first home game of the season against Catalans. We talk about the renaming of the ground for one night only and just how good it is to have someone like Luke Littler from Warrington. We discuss the issues Sam faces in picking his team for the upcoming game as well as decide on who will think should start. We talk about the issues at Salford and where rugby league currectly is at the moment, as well as getting excited for the new season. We look at how Warrington are changing the way there doing things in promoting youth rather than going out and buying big name players. We give our score and man of the match predictions for the game as well as trying to figure out where Chris Sandow is these days.

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This week, I chat to former Bradford Bulls and Warrington player Rob Parker about his rugby league career. We discuss his now acting career and being friends with the likes of Tom Hardy. We look back at his debut for the Bulls and going on to be part off a treble winning team. We also find out how a loan move to London changed his life for the better. We discuss his move to the Warrington Wolves and how close he was to not signing for them at all, we also look back on that great play off win against Leeds. Rob tells of his struggle when he did retire and how injuries made him have a problem with painkillers. We also find out who he loves a night out with and does he think Warrington win a grand final in the next 5 years.

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Me and Chris Riley look back on Warrington's round 1 win against Huddesfield. We are joined by Warrington player Zane Musgrove for the first bit of the pod as he tells us how the boys are feeling after a winning start to the season. Me and Chris then discuss that opening game, the performance, team selection and look ahead to the next game against Catalans at what will be for one night only the Luke Littler Stadium.

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Warrington Wolves player Jordy Crowther chats about the upcoming season and his career up to now. We discuss last season and that semi final lost against Hull Kr as well as the Challenge Cup final defeat to Wigan. We look back on how Jordy started off playing rugby league and his time at Wakefield. He tells us about how his move to Warrington came about and the fact within a week off being there, the manager who signed him left. He chats about the friendlies Warrington have played and how motivated the players are to finally win that Grand Final for the town.

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This week, I'm join by former Warrington players Brent Grose and Gary Hulse aswell as former Warrington coach Paul Cullen to look back on the last ever game at Wilderspool. We chat about the game itself running through the build up, to the trys during it and how big of a win in was against Wakefield that day. We also look back at some facts of Wilderspool and find out which team we beat the most there. We chat about certain players like Ben Westwood, Graham Appo and Nathan Wood. I also find out if the guys prefer the old stadium or the new one on this special episode of The Wire in Bondi podcast.

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This week, former Warrington Wolves hooker Alex Thompson joins us to discuss his career. We talk about him playing rugby league as a kid, joining Warrington at a very young age and being there when Paul Cullen left and Tomy Smith came in. We discuss his debut game for Warrington, coming off the bench to score a try but also why it turned out to be his only first team game for the Wire. We chat about how he fell out of love for the game for a period of time and how moving to Oldham helped him get back to enjoying playing rugby league again. He also tells us about his moves to Oxford and finshing his career at North Wales. We also find out what ALex is up to now and how he actually had s soft spot for Wigan when growing up.

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This week former Warrington Wolves forward Ellis Longstaff joins us. We discuss why Ellis took the decision to retire at the young age of 22, he tells us about the reasons why and how he blames a certain coach in how it all turned out. We also look back of how Ellis starting playing rugby league, him joining Warrington and making his debut under Steve Price. We talk about him moving to Hull and Salford on loan before evetually joining Featherstone. We find out what Ellis is up to now and how tough mentally he found it at times during his rugby league career. He also tells who the best player he played with and if he'll be going Vegas to support the Wire.

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This week, former Widnes and Warrington player Steve McCurrie chats about his career. Steve tells us about how it all started for him signing for Widnes at a young age and playing in a Challenge Cup Final for them early on. We talk about his move to Rugby Union and how he came back to Rugby League by signing for Warrington. We talk about his time at the Wire and playing under coach Darryl van der Velde and the vision he had for Warrington. We hear how he came to leave Warrington and go back to Widnes and also why the Wilderspool got the nickname the Zoo. Steve talks about his couple of appearances at International level and what he thinks on the current state of the International game. We find out about Steve's new career as a driving instructor and why I wish I went with him when I was doing my lessons.

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This week, Former Super League Referee Ian Smith joins me this week to discuss his career and new book The Final Whistle. Ian has recently wrote a book about his career and being a ref in the Super League, we discuss why he.s now decided to bring out a book and how he felt writing it. We also chat about how he started as a ref, his first game in the Super League and the last game between Hull and Leeds. He tells us about the 2 charities the profits from the book is going too and his work with the RFL. Ian discusses the great matches he got to ref such as plenty of Wigan vs Saints derbies and sadly a few comeback wins for the Saints over the Wire. We also find out who the best player he saw in action and what his thoughts were on the old Wilderspool ground.

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This week former Warrington Wolves player and now Direction of Rugby at Warrington Gary Chambers joins us. We discuss the season just gone, the development of the young players and the progress made under Sam Burgess in his first season as a Head Coach. We also discuss why Warrington haven't always looked at promoting the youth and the changes we are now making to help develop the players coming through the academy system. We look back on Gary's playing career with the Wire, playing at the famous old stadium Wilderspool and how close Warrington became to not becoming the big club they are today. We look to the future, discuss vegas and the goals he, Sam and the club have next season and why Gary feels trophies are just around the corner.

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