Turbo's 'new man' plan for desperate USA trip

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The injury-riddled Tom Trbojevic had precocious hopes moments earlier departing for the United States to spot the mastermind down Latrell Mitchell's scintillating resurgence, saying helium looked guardant to returning "a caller man".

Trbojevic connected Saturday spoke to reporters astatine Sydney Airport earlier leaving to spot the Philadelphia-based Bill Knowles, who enactment Mitchell connected the way to shining successful the NRL and World Cup implicit the backmost fractional of 2022.

After suffering the latest successful a agelong drawstring of hamstring injuries successful December, Trbojevic is acceptable to acquisition 20 rehabilitation sessions with Knowles successful 2 weeks.

"He's 1 of the experts successful this field; I've got a batch of confidence," Trbojevic said.

"You anticipation to get a batch retired of it, truthful you tin travel back, beryllium assured successful yourself and your body, that you're doing everything you tin to enactment connected the parkland and play bully footy."

Trbojevic has managed only 44 NRL games successful the past 4 seasons, including 7 successful 2022.

Last year's wounded woes, and the infamous pridefulness jersey saga, were down Manly's horrendous decorativeness to the play and the demise of Des Hasler arsenic caput coach.

"I was evidently a small spot down," Trbojevic said of December's wounded blow.

"It wasn't what you wanted.

"I was truly enjoying grooming backmost successful pre-season.

"Wasn't good, but I've moved connected from that, and present I'm successful the process of getting myself close and getting backmost to playing footy.

"Being down's lone going to get you truthful far."

In the archetypal week of the year, Ryan Papenyhuyzen headed to the US to spot Knowles astir his horrible genu injury, truthful there's a precocious accidental Trbojevic volition transverse paths with the Melbourne Storm speedster during his trip.

"I deliberation a batch of it's to bash with reconditioning your assemblage and rewiring it to determination better, to enactment little accent connected your (hamstrings) and different areas of your body," Trbojevic said.

"I deliberation successful the abbreviated word it's astir decidedly moving better, but hopefully that has a semipermanent effect and tin amusement successful the parkland for nevertheless long."

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