Naufahu Whyte Extending and Renouf Atoni Joining Tricolours

[Mickie Lane]

Not the Melbourne model. It has been the Roostrs model for 20 years bringing players through our junior rep teams. Players like Crocker Mini Flannery

Your right the Chooks have been bringing talent through but after Sticky & until Brian Smith left the club lost its way where Melbourne has done it continually for 20 years no matter who they lose. The Chooks are next best at it after Melbourne IMO.

[Johnny Brass]

I'm expecting a lot more out of our young forwards than what we will get from Atoni but I hope Robbo can motivate him and he's a late bloomer.
Tuku Hua Tapuha is the one I'm looking forward to seeing more of with his size.
The Storm have been murdering teams in the middle with their interchanges when Grant comes on as hooker and the cheese with his mobility in the middle and the giant Nelson comes on and offloads at will against tired defences.
Manly have hit on this formula with Dylan Walker in the middle and Paseka with his offloads .
I'd love to see us do similar with Watson's mobility and Tapuha offloading because we definitely need something different in the middle of the park.
The injury toll over the last two years shouldn't mask over the fact that we haven't beaten a top side for a couple of years and a big factor in that is we have been beaten up in the forwards.