Attention and focus turns to Round 1

About this episode

Stormy Daniel discusses the pre-season challenges and preparations for the upcoming Round 1 of the rugby season.

The pre-season challenge is done and dusted and so too is the long, arduous pre-season training, where this new Storm group have been building a base, hardening themselves for the 2026 Season and their Premiership campaign. Stormy Daniel touches on the second pre-season hit out against the Titans and despite the lopsided scoreline, Stormy Daniel reads very little into Melbourne's showing in the pre-season challenge, as history shows that all effort, emphasis and focus is on preparing for a hard and fast start in Round 1, where Bellyache will be looking to extend his unbeaten streak to 24 wins. Plus, your listener questions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Stormy Daniel

Topics covered

• pre-season training
• rugby
• 2026 Season
• Premiership campaign
• listener questions
• Melbourne Storm

Keywords

• pre-season
• rugby
• Melbourne Storm
• Titans
• Bellyache
• 2026 Season
• Premiership

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Melbourne, Titans

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