Don't try telling Matthew Elliott he's in charge of a Warriors team stacked with talent. Don't even try to ask him if he's hoping to utilise the obvious talent in his back-up halfback.
"We don't use the T word here any more," Elliott said after unveiling a first trial team light on top grade experience but stacked with ... ability.
"Every player in the NRL is talented. These guys have heard too much of that. Talent gets you to the NRL, that's all it does. It will get you here but it ain't gonna win you games. I see your lips moving but I didn't hear what came out."
Elliott talks a very good game. Whatever happens with the Warriors this season, reporters won't be short of pithy lines.