Wiki back at Warriors in full-time role

2 Nov 2012, 4:04 pm   -   Source: AAP
Warriors great Ruben Wiki is returning fulltime to the NRL club as strength and conditioning coach. (AAP)

Warriors great Ruben Wiki is returning fulltime to the NRL club as strength and conditioning coach. (AAP)

Former Warriors prop Ruben Wiki is returning to the club in a fulltime role as part of new coach Matthew Elliott's back-room team.

Warriors stalwart Ruben Wiki is returning fulltime to the NRL club four years after hanging up his boots.

Wiki, who has had part-time roles at the Warriors after retiring on 312 career first-grade appearances, will be their strength and conditioning coach.

It means the former Kiwi skipper will link again with new coach Matthew Elliott, whom he knows from the pair's Canberra days.

Wiki played 225 times for Canberra between 1993 and 2004, before shifting back to his home town of Auckland, while Elliott was on the Raiders' coaching staff from 2001-06.

Elliott said 39-year-old Wiki was the model of the culture that the Warriors want to develop.

"What he offers as a person sits alongside the skill-set he brings with him for this job," he said.

Elliott said Wiki would also contribute in a coaching capacity by mentoring NRL players.

Other appointments announced on Friday were sports science manager Brad Morris, rehab and speed coach Dayne Norton and performance analyst Adam Sadler.

The Warriors begin pre-season training on Monday.

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