In focus: Warriors wingers and centres

Three-quarter line entertainers, cult heroes and enigmas to grace the Warriors' team sheet.

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The Dally M Winger of the Year in 1995, Sean Hoppe was a mainstay across the Warriors’ first four seasons, but the club first enjoyed stability on both flanks when Francis Meli and Henry Fa’afili emerged simultaneously in the early-2000s.

Serial record-breaker Manu Vatuvei’s 221 games as a winger wasis the second most in premiership history for one club (after Hazem El Masri’s 293 appearances for the Bulldogs) by the time he retired, but finding a consistent wing partner proved problematic during ‘The Beast’s’ 12 seasons as a Warriors regular.