Northern Suburbs 2016 Season Preview
by Paul Cook -
Last Year: 8th
Ins: Larry Hermens (Parramatta); Irae Simone (South Sydney Rabbitohs, NRL); Angus Sinclair (Eastern Suburbs)
Outs: Tim Duchesne (Northampton Saints, UK); Ben Matwijow (Queensland Reds); Michael Wells (ACT Brumbies)
Coaching Team: Head coach – Simon Cron / Assistants – Matt Nilan / Skills - Will Eggleston
Captain: Will Miller
Overview – with Simon Cron
“One of the things we’ve really pushed in the off-season is a ‘compete-to-win philosophy’, so in everything we do, we compete to win. That’s part of transitioning a club that potentially accepted mediocrity a little bit into one that has an environment where we compete to win in everything we do. Last year, I had a group that were still developing their rugby brains and needed quite a lot of direction around game management and our squad identity. We set about fostering a culture with a second to no-one approach when we train, and play, and a mindset of developing a ‘best of the bes