Warrington Wolves pre-season training through the years

New head coach Sam Burgess and his players reported back for the first day of pre-season yesterday as preparations for the 2024 campaign began in earnest.

As the long, slow grind towards Round One starts, we've had a look back through some of our pictures from pre-season training through the years and have come up with a few of our favourites...

It's all about balance for Danny Lima back in 2004 (Image: Mike Boden)

Adrian Morley gets stuck into his first session as a Wire player ahead of the 2007 season (Image: Mike Boden)

Pre-season is often a muddy grind as Matty Blythe and Mike Cooper find out here back in 2007 (Image: Mike Boden)

There have been trips to sunnier climes, too - here's a wild-haired Jon Clarke at Wire's pre-season camp in Lanzarote in 2008 (Image: Warrington Wolves)

Wire even headed Down Under in 2012 - here's Rhys Williams trying his hand at Aussie rules football during a session with the Sydney Swans (Image: Warrington Wolves)

The dreaded fitness work - Ryan Atkins and Kevin Penny leave it all on the watt bike back in 2015 (Image: Mike Boden)

Another training camp, this time in Tenerife in 2017 (Image: NQ)

The Steve Price shades get an unexpected December outing back in 2019 (Image: Mike Boden)

Looks like Tom Mikaele really enjoyed a hill run at Formby Beach last year (Image: Warrington Wolves)