The groundwork has been laid for the team to go on with the job.
The Warriors started something promising in this year's NRL season.
It was a season of trials and tribulations. On what seemed to be a weekly basis, something new popped up to take the focus away from their primary job of performing on the field.
To the players' credit, they shut that noise out where possible or addressed it head on if need be.
Having to leave their families behind, at least initially, and uproot on-field operations across the Tasman for months, only to have their coach fired four weeks after the season got back under way, many expected the club to simply make up the numbers.