With the NRL pre-season underway, every club is facing crucial questions as they prepare for another competitive year. This article highlights the key challenges and opportunities for each team, focusing on player acquisitions, positional battles, and the quest for premiership glory.
The weather is getting warmer, houses are being trained down and all 17 NRL clubs are currently in the thick of what will no doubt be the toughest pre-season ever. It feels like only yesterday the season wrapped up with Penrith's grand final victory over Melbourne and eyes are already turning towards 2025 as sides around the league plot their own premiership charge. Here's the biggest question your club faces over the pre-season ahead of another bumper year of rugby league action.
After seven years, Ben Hunt will return to the Broncos in 2025.In signing Ben Hunt, Michael Maguire has solved several of Brisbane's problems in one fell swoop. The Broncos' halves depth cost them last year as Adam Reynolds battled injury and could have done so again this year with Ezra Mam facing a lengthy suspension. In Hunt, they have a player who could fill either role with aplomb should one of the starters go down. There was a question mark over hooker last season as well, with Billy Walters failing to recapture his 2023 form, Cory Paix seemingly on the outer and Blake Mozer lacking experience — now Hunt, who has played hooker to great acclaim for Queensland and Australia, gives them an instant upgrade in that position. Hunt also provides a veteran presence for a side that was sorely lacking it through 2024. Once all the Broncos are fit and firing, one would expect Hunt to share the hooking duties with Mozer and perhaps even slot in at lock late in games if Maguire wants to really ramp up the pace.Dummy half shapes as the final piece of the playmaking puzzle for Canberra with the Raiders locking in Kaeo Weekes at fullback and Jamal Fogarty and Ethan Strange in the halves following impressive seasons for all three in 2024. Hooker has been a problematic position for the club ever since Josh Hodgson's departure, with Danny Levi, Tom Starling and Zac Woolford all sharing the role at various time
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