Recruitment can make or break a season.
Late last year we broke down the best recruitment drives, the best decisions and the clubs who look set to rise as a result.
Today we look at the individual recruits.
This isn't just a "best players to move" list. This is more based on which recruits help their team the most in 2025 and beyond.
As always, this is purely an opinion and not meant to guide any life choices.
With that said, below are the Top 10 recruits for 2025:
If you asked every single Shark who their ideal signing for 2025 was, the names Payne Haas and Addin Fonua-Blake would dominate.
The Sharks lacked one thing in 2024: a genuine, metre-eating pack leader. In AFB they have added one of the top two props in the game.
Fonua-Blake averaged 170 run metres a game in 2024 and hasn't had his average drop below 150 in six years.
The Sharks are a completely different beast with AFB leading the charge.
I think Lomax is too high, Dan.
If Parra intended to play him as a winger then he would be worth including in the list, but he has gone to play as a centre, a position in which – historically – he has underwhelmed.
What’s that old expression ? “Quality Mismatch” !