"Daniel had a lot of love for them early on and everyone likes feeling the love, and when they got it from the coach they'd want to give it back to him by performing. But that relationship slowly got eroded.
"Their spirits were low because they didn't like being spoken to the way Daniel was speaking to them. Every other word was the f-word and it was delivered with so much anger and intensity."
After taking the Warriors to the 2002 grand final, he went one better in England when Saints won the 2006 premiership. He also oversaw Challenge Cup victories in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and a further two Super League grand final appearances.
His half-time tirade in this year's premiership decider has been well publicised after an animated Anderson was captured by the dressing-room cameras laying down the law to the St Helens players. It was a tactic he had employed with success at the Warriors during a game against Penrith in 2001.
After leading 12-0 early, the Warriors went to the interval trailing 26-12 and according to Betham and former Warriors chief executive Mick Watson, Anderson delivered one of his briefest but most effective half-time talks - saying "f--- you" to each of the 17-man squad and then "f--- the lot of you" before walking out of the room.
"I walked in at half-time ? [it was] f--- you, f--- you, f--- you. We were down and out. It was terrible," says Watson, who left the ground in disgust and listened on his car radio as the Warriors staged a remarkable second-half comeback.
Betham defended Anderson's speech, saying: "Hey, it worked. Sometimes he'd swear at one or two of the boys but the rest of us would get 'you're doing well' or 'keep doing that'. But not that time. We all got the serve and we all responded."
