Looking forward to this program starting tonight. www.nrl.com/the-nrl-rookie-episo ... fault.aspx The interesting thing is the 28 contestants come from 8 different countries. All the contestants have to have not played NRL or in lower grades of NRL clubs in the last 3 years. I expect there will be players from PNG, Fiji, NZ, Aus and maybe Samoa and Tonga, but I'm hoping for a few from USA, Canada, and it would be great if we see a Serbian, Italian or Lebanese player.

Looking forward to this program starting tonight. www.nrl.com/the-nrl-rookie-episo ... fault.aspx The interesting thing is the 28 contestants come from 8 different countries. All the contestants have to have not played NRL or in lower grades of NRL clubs in the last 3 years. I expect there will be players from PNG, Fiji, NZ, Aus and maybe Samoa and Tonga, but I'm hoping for a few from USA, Canada, and it would be great if we see a Serbian, Italian or Lebanese player.

The website for the show says to stay tuned for details of how it can be seen around the world. nrlrookie.com/about

The website for the show says to stay tuned for details of how it can be seen around the world. nrlrookie.com/about

couple of poms in the final 14 (they cut the squad from 28 to 14 on the first night.)
one of the poms played union 7s at the commonwealth games - the other is a huge unit who was an Olympic bobsled guy.
others include the son of Dale Shearer, kid from PNG, kid from Fiji. The nfl triallist from the USA missed out, as did a bunch of others who looked pretty good.

Is it on sky sports?

Yes it is, don't think any dates have been announced yet though. Seems really weird that Sky would bother with this when they have seemingly washed their hands of NRL coverage and Premier have been picking up all of the other Aussie magazine/highlight shows.

Agree with the above, I have little no interest in these gimmick shows I just want to see the games.

On Sky Sports 1 tonight at 2230 after the Huddersfield v Hull match.

I missed it

does anyone know if it is repeated?

i enjoyed it, possibly a little bit too compressed for my liking though, i'd have liked to have got to know the blokes a bit better. (speed dating maybe

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It's available on 'catch up' on Sky Sports.

20 mins of entertainment crammed into an hour .....

I enjoyed it, however when they had the 9 a side matches I would have liked to witness more of the matches than MG, Fittler and Lam speaking. Matty Goreman is a monster, how he managed to back up and carry a teammate in a fitness test just days after a heart op is unreal. Good to see the English lads doing well and progressing, Frixou is massive and had a trial at Salford.

I'd like to have known more about the players and how they managed to get to that stage. Most interesting back story from what we heard for me was Kevin Reed from the USA.

Really enjoyed watching it. Guess we'll get to know the players more now they've been whittled down a bit.

Episode 2 is on now! Thought it was going to be weekly so surprised to see it on now.

Episode 2 - they have a trained psychologist on the team, yet still left a guy on the rooftop for 30 mins who was clearly freaking out. I guess it made good TV, but surely would have made more sense for the pro to talk to him, rather than Adrian Lam (I'm guessing she wasn't there for the task which in itself seems an odd ommision ?)

Every Thursday + Friday after the game.

One of the English lads went out tonight. Was a tad harsh on him seeing as he didn't have chance to play in the game due to injury. I bet the captain feels guilty he swapped him into the bottom 3.

I didn't quite get it. The coaches didn't put him in the bottom three yet when he got swapped they then voted him out. It did seem really harsh.

Really enjoying the series so far. I think they could tweak it and improve it by showing a bit more of the matches and maybe a bit more of the players down time but overall it certainly beats watching most other rubbish on the box.

I thought it was the rest of the team that pick the bottom 3, the captain can then choose if he wants to swap one of them out. the coaches then decide from the bottom three.

I'm enjoying the series, the captain's runs so far have been brutal!

I think the coaches come to a decision of their weakest rookie. But the players vote for the bottom 3 so then the coaches select their lowest rated rookie from the bottom 3 and he leaves.

I think the coaches may have binned off Elias if the bottom 3 had Karo been kept in it. Freddy didn't seem impressed with him running it on the 5th twice and said that if he wants to play union he should go back to it.

Must be down to watching him in training every day as the captain did say he was struggling as a half back.

Also the rookies must have players in reserve right. How are they putting out 13 players when players are injured. Must have players on bench to interchange

How many player are actually left? They went from 28 to 14 right and 3 have gone so that only leaves 11.

I was wondering that. It seems like quite a flawed elimination process when they have to play a game every week. Really enjoying it as a series though.

would be incredibly flawed if you've got one in each position, and you lose all your forwards or all you backs in a row, knackers up the entire show.

They should have just maintained the 9s approach and have full time limits.

Think it's 12 isn't it, they brought Matt Johnstone back in the second episode.

Had 13 then brought back Johnstone after Goreman was injured for match 1 to take them up to 14. But since then they've lost Jesse Shearer, Daniel Caprice and Matty Goreman.