Super sized: Warriors revive 2002 strategy with NRL's heaviest squad

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We're talking 342 kilos of prime-rib props 😤

The Warriors have assembled the NRL's biggest roster in a big-bodied, back-to-the future plan to emulate the most successful campaigns of the Kiwi club's history.

It will be the most of any club by some margin, with Manly , Wests Tigers and Cowboys , Melbourne, Brisbane and Parramatta following next in the big man stocks. Those athletic big men were marshalled by champion half Stacey Jones and backed up by hulking outside men Francis Meli and Clinton Toopi, a recipe O'Sullivan has looked to replicate ahead of Brown's first season in charge.

"Then there's the creative little fellas and a champion fullback, I think we've got the mechanics of the team that we want now and we've got that right.Everyone keeps saying the Warriors are a big team ... but last season we were tinyO'Sullivan said the NRL's addition of six-again restarts for offside infringements and other changes aimed at speeding up the game"aren't a concern at all" given the Storm's big men set the benchmark once more in 2020.

 

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Hope they do well this year

Size doesn't win squat but ability does that's why they'll never win a premiership in Rugby League!

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