Warringah's 2023 season was capped by a breakthrough colts premiership, but the grade program had a much tougher season.

Departing coach Mike Ruthven was clearly disappointed but remained optimistic for his side in the future.

Overview with Mike Ruthven: 

"From a grade perspective and looking at the areas where I was accountable, obviously it was a bitterly disappointing season," Ruthven told Rugby News. 

"We underachieved and certainly didn’t meet the expectations that we had on ourselves. We worked really hard during the preseason to put ourselves in a position to compete and win this year and we weren’t able to do that, which was really disappointing.