{"id":451642,"date":"2026-03-01T08:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451642\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T08:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:06:11","slug":"ex-boss-reveals-secret-sam-burgess-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451642\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-boss reveals secret Sam Burgess message"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daryl Powell has revealed that he left Warrington successor Sam Burgess a secret message wishing him well following his Wolves appointment.<\/p>\n

Veteran coach Powell, now 60, endured a turbulent 18-month stint at Warrington<\/a>\u2018s helm between 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n

After finishing second-bottom of Super League in the first of those seasons, Powell\u2019s Wire side began 2023 with eight straight wins before plummeting.<\/p>\n

His reign eventually came to an end after a defeat at Wakefield, that Warrington\u2019s sixth loss on the spin at the time, and Trinity are coincidentally the club he moved on to.<\/p>\n

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\u2018It\u2019s nothing to do with Sam, it is what it is, so I wished him all the best and we get on pretty well when we speak\u2019<\/p>\n

As Powell took on the Wakefield job ahead of 2024, he was replaced in the Wire hotseat by NRL<\/a> and England legend Sam Burgess.<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old took up residency in Powell\u2019s old house, and it was there where Powell has revealed he left a secret message for his successor, with pen and paper!<\/p>\n

Wakefield travel to Warrington on Saturday evening, and in his pre-match press conference on Friday, Powell shared: \u201cHe (Burgess) went into the same house as me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI left him a note in a book in the house, and I don\u2019t know if he ever saw it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just left him a note to say, \u2018all the best mate, there\u2019s no hard feelings from my side\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nothing to do with Sam, it is what it is, so I wished him all the best and we get on pretty well when we speak.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke to him at the (Super League season) launch the other week, we had a good crack there, and I wish him all the best, apart from when we\u2019re facing up against them, obviously!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019ve got no dramas at all about what happened. I\u2019d have liked for it to have gone differently, but that\u2019s life\u2019<\/p>\n

Powell\u2019s Wakefield<\/a> side did the double over Warrington last year, winning 30-16 at the Halliwell Jones Stadium and then 40-10 on home soil at Belle Vue.<\/p>\n

Those results came en-route to Trinity, in their first year back in Super League<\/a>, finishing in the play-offs as Warrington ended up eighth.<\/p>\n

On his unsuccessful stint with the Wolves, Powell said: \u201cTo be honest, I\u2019ve just moved on from it, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any point in dwelling.<\/p>\n

\u201cApart from learning from some of the situations, I think I\u2019ve learned a fair bit and grown a fair bit from that, and that\u2019s it, really.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot everything works for you in life, everybody finds that, and it is what it is.<\/p>\n

\u201cI moved on, I\u2019m having a great time here now and last year was probably important in terms of that first contact (with Warrington since leaving).<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got no dramas at all about what happened. I\u2019d have liked for it to have gone differently, but that\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t dwell on the things that don\u2019t go your way, learn from them and move on, and that\u2019s what I\u2019ve worked hard to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI concentrate on what\u2019s directly in front of us. That\u2019s a game against Warrington and it\u2019s two points up for grabs, and nothing else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daryl Powell has revealed that he left Warrington successor Sam Burgess a secret message wishing him well following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-451642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}