Warringah coach Mike Ruthven wants his side to become the most competitive team in the competition in 2023.

The Rats were one of the form teams of the competition through the early stages of last year’s regular season but ran out of puff midway through 2022 and won just two of their last seven matches.

“We’ve been working hard on our capacity to compete and to compete for long periods,” Ruthven told Rugby News.

“Tactically, there are a few little things that we’ve tweaked that we think will give us a bit of a point of difference and that will make out style of play a little different to what most people would expect from a Warringah side.