In the back of the Belmore Sports Ground grandstand, Benji Marshall’s voice echoes down the corridors. He’s shouting instructions through the headsets to the Tigers lieutenants on the sidelines.
“Transition! Transition!”
It doesn’t matter that it’s February with the temperature nudging the high 20s and we’re in the final minutes of an exhausting first half, his forwards hunched over in downward dogs and all types of rest poses. Marshall wants his team to quickly morph from defence into attack, the way he knows.
If this isn’t Benji’s team in name, then it certainly is in...