“This is a great competition and it’s a great challenge,” coach Trent Robinson smiles wryly on the four-time premiers lying in wait. What next? No, they’re not bringing the most-capped Rooster Jared Waerea-Hargreaves home from the Super League. “I heard that one this morning,” Robinson says. “Can we make sure there’s multiple sources on these [reports]? We love Jared and he’ll walk back through these doors as a greying father doing some other job, but not playing.” Nor Joey Manu either actually. The Kiwi international will continue his code-hopping in rugby, and is expected to hop from Japanese outfit Toyota Verblitz to France once this year’s season in Japan wraps up.