NRL 2023: five on-field issues that will be settled this season | Angus Fontaine


Is this finally Latrell Mitchell’s season, can Penrith do the three-peat, and will Cameron Ciraldo resurrect the Bulldogs?

The NRL’s basket-case club hasn’t played finals since 2011 and has not even managed to win three straight games since 2018 (when Ivan Cleary was coach). This year the 2022 wooden spooners have reunited the forces who won their long-ago 2005 premiership – coach Tim Sheens with Benji Marshall and Robbie Farah as assistants. The word out of Leichhardt is that there’s a personal, cultural and team revolution under way.

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