The leadership role isn't something which comes naturally to Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, and the Warriors skipper admits the responsibilities of captaincy have at times had a detrimental impact on his own form.

The fleet-footed fullback told media on Wednesday that while he'd been learning plenty about the unique demands of guiding a team, it's still a constant work in progress, particularly when it comes to being the ruthless taskmaster the role often requires.

"That's a process I'm still working on," Tuivasa-Sheck confessed.

"I know I can go to a lot of the older boys and tap them on the shoulder and ask "can you speak to this one?", "can you speak to that one?""

"With my back five I'm comfortable doing it but going to the forwards, that's what I'm working on."

By all accounts, the team meeting following the nightmare outing against the Newcastle Knights last weekend provided an opportunity for some direct and open dialogue between both players and staff with the realisation that their playoff hopes were, once again, definitively dead and buried.

The 24-year-old spoke of the "honest" session during which all parties were encouraged to hold each other accountable for some lacklustre showings during another low point in a 2017 season filled with disappointment.

"That was my main message to the team, make sure you're getting yourself ready to perform before looking at others."

It's an edict the Otahuhu-product is firmly holding himself to – leading by example.

"Before you get your team right, get yourself right," he says of the biggest lesson captaincy has taught him.

"If I don't then I'm dropping balls on the field and not doing what I'm supposed to be doing because I'm worried about something else."

An ACL tear prematurely ended his debut season with the Warriors in 2016, and while 2017 has seen him a much more constant presence, he's yet to recapture the magic which saw him named the NRL's best fullback his season prior to arriving in Auckland.