By MARK CASHMAN

The key to coaching in many cases is assessing the talent at your disposal and adapting a game plans that suits the bodies and skills of that group.

That’s been the philosophy of West Harbour coach Mark Gudmunson this season and by the looks of the results over the past month it’s starting to pay some dividends.

Wests travel to Newcastle to take on the Hunter Wildfires on Saturday and Gudmunson just wants his charges to stick to the game plan - and even more so when things start to go off the rails, as they inevitably do.

“We’re getting some return from sticking to the game plan that we have trained for in recent weeks and the boys are starting to see that that plan works,” Gudmunson said.