Finals Week 1 vs Rabbitohs - 7:50pm Friday 11th of September - Allianz Stadium

[bremsstrahlung]

A starting pack with J Saf, Mooney, Lucas and Manulelua in it, with Hopwood & McEwen coming off the bench, has the chance to be one of the best all round packs in the NRL *starting next year*. No shade on other blokes because you need your workhorses too. But the mix of physicality, work rate, mobility & speed we will have, I really think that's the skeleton of a premiership winning pack. All Niukore, Crouch, Croker or whoever else we have on the field will need to worry about is line speed, contact and effort areas.

I was thinking about this earlier.

Our bench - once we get some players back, full strength (I wish), could be impressive.

Graham
Smith
Hopwood
McEwen
Crouch
Niukore/Frizz/Saulo

Heard a comment the other week (it was in regards to footy tips haha) but the method was to match up the benches - who wins the bench.

If we don’t win the premiership this year - we have at least had great opportunity to develop Crouch, Hopwood, Graham, Hunt, Manu and Smith into players I want to see on our team sheets.

Holbrook is going to have a few conundrums on who to play where next year - the good kind.