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 )

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 ?)