Atthe Footy wit h Quinny Fired up for footy season!

WELCOME BACK to season 2023 and thanks to The Weekly for having me on board again. What a season we have to look forward to on the back of a quality pre-season competition.

The two big talking points were St Helens becoming the best club in the world by rolling the unstoppable Panthers and Manly getting the warm up cash! Many clubs in Australia will use the Paul Wellen’s coached Saints blueprint to upset the premiers and have probably given them all a little bit more hope.

I’m sure the wet weather seemed much more like the UK for them and the concern about the lads melting seemed a long way off with the thunderstorm in the west just before halftime.

St Helens have a plethora of stars but one of the greatest players to ever touch the footy has to be hooker and captain James Roby. He played in the WCC game in 2007 and still produced a man of the match performance 15 years later.

The two W’s in Walmsley and Welsby could be fixtures in any club in Australia after that performance.

Our other highlight was the Eagles picking up the $100k that was on offer to win the pre-season comp with quality performances against high flyers Souths and the Rabbitohs.

The first half performance against the chooks was simply a clinic.

Yes, some players are still to come back for Robbo’s men but Manly dismantled them without the mercurial Tommy Turbo and captain DCE.

Coach Seibold has obviously put in a quality