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Broncos Team List: Trial v Wynnum

Some of the Broncos best emerging talent will suit up for the club’s opening trial of the season against Wynnum Manly Seagulls on Saturday afternoon at Kougari Oval.

Centre Deine Mariner and backrower Brendan Paikura – both with two NRL games under their belts – headline a team that also includes Mariner and Piakura’s fellow NRL Top 30-contracted players Ethan Quai-Ward (centre) and Logan Bayliss (prop) who both impressed for Broncos Affiliate Souths Logan Magpies in last season’s Hostplus Cup.

Also named are Broncos Development List players, hooker Tyson Smoothy and playmaker Josh Rogers, who were both standouts themselves in the Hostplus Cup last year for the Sunshine Coast Falcons and Burleigh Bears respectively, as well as emerging young prop Ben Te Kura.

Toowoomba-born Queenslander Smoothy played four NRL games for the Storm in 2021 and the 23-year-old has impressed during the preseason, as have a number of the Broncos’ Train-and-Trial contracted players who have been named in the bulk of the other spots for the opening trial.

Former Dragons fullback Tristan Sailor and forward Shalom O’Ofou have both caught the eye across the three months of preseason work and have been rewarded with starting spots against Wynnum – with Sailor’s voice, pace and creativity at the back showing why he has already played five NRL games during his time at St George Illawarra.

O’Ofou is a hard-running and compact backrower/lock who has also impressed, with no less than skipper Adam Reynolds calling him and Sailor out in a recent media interview when asked who had done well during the club’s preseason slog.

Wynnum Manly Seagulls v Brisbane Broncos

Saturday 4 February | 4pm Kick-off | Kougari Oval

1 Tristan SAILOR                       

2 Israel LEOTA

3 Ethan QUAI-WARD                      

4 Deine MARINER

5 James JOHNSON                             

6 Jack AHEARN

7 Josh ROGERS

8 Logan BAYLISS

9 Tyson SMOOTHY 

10 Ben TE KURA

11 Brendan FREI                              

12 Brendan PIAKURA

13 Shalom O’OFOU                                                        

Interchange      

14 Liam HORNE

15 Jack CAMPAGNOLO

16 Jayden MORGAN

17 John RADEL

18 Will SAMUEL

 

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