Round 1 team

["gaz"]

Were the Seve brothers there?
was Taylor Lasalu , our NSW cup player of the year, involved in any work?

Pretty sure he is still in the training group

[SamKerrSimp]

We really need a better dummy half option than Connor Watson who is a quality player himself but we are wasting him in the 9 he needs to play 13 that's better for him and the team overall. RE: Mbye I thought he signed for Penrith months ago?

It's 2025 we don't need an enforcer and none of the top teams have one anymore, I love JWH but his enforcer role did nothing but cost our team dearly last season. If you need a guy to run in to a brick wall then you have Leniu, if you need a guy to tackle hard then you have Collins, if you need a guy to make a big run then you have Whyte, if you need a guy to put a massive shot on then you have Radley. There's guys there that can do these things individually but what we need is run hard, tackle hard, keep going all day like Penrith and Melbourne do. Collins only gets smashed because he's always the one taking those runs off kick offs.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Mark Nawaqanitawase cover at fullback for Tedesco if he's missing.

It's a good team on paper but some of these guys need to aim up massively this year, Crichton's second half of the year was disgraceful, Young, Leniu and Collins were disappointing as well it can't be up to Tedesco, Tupou and Watson every game with the first two players being the oldest in the team they aren't going to be around much longer.

[Cooko]

Dom Young for a player who only started playing league at 16 has done pretty well one has to say -73 NRL Game for 63 tries and all up 86 games for 81 tries - ESL/NRL/Tests for England.

A lot of players would love to have even have half the career Dom has had so far and at 23 his best footy is still in front of him.

Sad that posters on here bag him and other players when of course they have never reached any reasonable level of skill or achievement in any sport themselves.

They say defence wins games and that's where most of us worry about Dom.

[bondi.boy]

Have you seen Chad Townsend's podcast "Day 1 Pre-season training" it sounds like they are training hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=counLlqovhQ

Very interesting.
Thanks for that.