NRL Legends SB Ball Coaching Clash

The SG Ball season kicks off on Sunday the 5th of February and Bunnies TV will be at Redfern Oval to broadcast a live streamed call of the Rabbitohs v Warriors game.

The SG Ball Cups season is nine rounds then top six play-offs with the grand final in late April.

The Rabbitohs SG Ball boys.

Sundays game is a mouth watering clash headlined by 2 NRL 300 game legends. Adam Blair will make his coaching debut for the Warriors against Souths John Sutton. 36 year old Blair from Whangarei, New Zealand played 331 games for Melbourne, Wests Tigers, Brisbane and the Warriors. 38 year old Sutton from Maroubra, Australia played 336 games for the Rabbitohs.

NRL Legends SG Ball Coaching Clash
Souths SG Ball coach John Sutton is a 336 game NRL legend.

Coach Sutton

John Sutton has seen his SG Ball squad play some great footy in the trial matches. The backs have looked impressive. Dane Towns, Daniel Wright and Tyrone Munro are all in sparkling form out wide.

NRL Legends SG Ball Coaching Clash
SG Ball Round 1 Lineups.

Versatile winger Haizyn Mellars represented Queensland in basketball before signing with Souths. He comes from a respected sporting family. Dad Vince scored a try on debut for the Warriors in 2003 and mum Charmain was a 2008 Beijing Olympic New Zealand representative. I’m tipping we see a bit of Mellars magic on Sunday.

Coach Sutton will no doubt have his forwards, captained by hooker TJ Herring primed for a big performance. Lock Liam Le Blanc is a player to watch and look out for hard running prop Jahream Lole-Ngarima aka JC charging off the back fence.

Former Steeler Jahream Lole-Ngarima aka JC. NRL Legends SG Ball Coaching Clash

Coach Blair

Adam Blair and his staff started preparing their players in early November 2022, building up for the campaign with one inter-squad trial in December and two more in the last two weeks.

NRL Legends SG Ball Coaching Clash
Warriors SG Ball coach Adam Blair (MNZM) is a 331 NRL game legend.

When asked about his squad Blair told warriors.kiwi “We have some special talent coming through. I’m really excited about some of our outside backs in particular. I don’t know whether they’re eventually going to be centres, wingers, back-rowers or props but these guys you can put anywhere and they will get the job done”.

On the Izzy & Kemp podcast, Adam Blair again singled out his back 5 as players to watch. Keep an eye on fullback Ratu Saimone Naborisi, wingers Rapheal Sio and Sio Kali (a Joseph Sua’ali’i type player) plus talented centres Patrick Moimoi and Sialetili Faeamani.

In 2021 Blair was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to rugby league.

This is just the second time the One New Zealand Warriors have played in the SG Ball competition. In their debut in 2020, the Warriors were in a share of second just one point behind the top side when Covid forced the cancellation of the competition.

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Adam Blair on the Izzy & Kemp podcast.

NRL Legends SG Ball Coaching Clash

By Steve Mavin for Bunnies TV.

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