As the year's first Team List Tuesday dawns upon us, Round 1 every year brings forth shock selections, stars benched, and like every season - a host of rookies.
While many look at the young crop for the SuperCoach potential, the majority of us watch in anticipation to see what the next generation can deliver.
There's been some amazing rookies over the past few seasons, with the likes of Stephen Crichton and Harry Grant going from virtual unknowns to making the Origin squads in 2020. Every player on this list is yet to make their NRL debut, but you'll know their names soon enough.
9. Jake Simpkin
Another Queenslander at a Sydney club, Simpkin is behind Jacob Liddle at the Wests Tigers in the race for the vacant hooking role, and isn't too far off the pace. Liddle has the edge as it stands, but unfortunately with his injury history, anything could happen.
Liddle has only managed 44 NRL games since his 2016 debut, less than nine games a year, and with Simpkin far and away the second best option at the club in terms of hookers, a 2021 debut is on the cards.
Can anyone say “Trbojevic” ? All but everybody calls these boys Trbojevich. It is “vic” not “vich”
Correct pronunciation would sound like Tr (roll the R)-boy-ev-its, unless they have an accent on the c, like ฤ (tj) or ฤ (ch).