Christmas is here, and for a brief moment, the NRL world will slow down to take in the holiday period and festive season.
But with salary cap and collective bargaining agreement discussions continuing, clubs still not having full rosters for the 2023 campaign, and over 190 players remaining off-contract at the end of the season ahead, it won't stay slow for long.
Teams will be back training and making final preparations for the new season before long, and every club in the competition needs a visit from the big guy in the red suit this morning to deliver a shower of magic for the new season.
Here is what your club needs for 2023.
On behalf of the entire Zero Tackle team, I'd like to wish all our readers a very merry Christmas and safe holiday season for you and your family.
17. Wests Tigers: Benji Marshall's influence to be enormous
Rewind to 2005, and as he spent so many years doing, Benji Marshall was at the centre of everything that was good about the Tigers.
Fast forward to the end of 2022 and moving into 2023, and there really isn't much good about the Tigers at all after their wooden spoon season.
But Benji Marshall is back.
He joins Tim Sheens for 2023 in an all-new look coaching team, and his influence almost immediately in restoring the club to its former glory has to be enormous.
Marshall feels like the last roll of the dice for the fed-up Tigers, but it's a strong option alongside a coach who led the club to a premiership in 2005.
