Gold Coast star Kevin Proctor has some advice for his club over the Jai Arrow situation.

Meanwhile, former NRL star Robbie Farah is switching codes for a good cause.

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Round 19

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BRONCOS

Joe Ofahengaue and his partner Sofi Leota had more than one reason to celebrate at the gender reveal of their baby last weekend.

The couple’s baby is due early in the NRL season, so they held the event under Storey Bridge in Brisbane.

But the day became a joint celebration after Ofahengaue asked Leota — who recently overcame a serious bout of breast cancer — to marry him.

“Sofi and I had planned our gender reveal, but I kind of added my own little surprise and proposed to her,” Ofahengaue told the Broncos website.

“It was an awesome day – we had some close mates attend and a lot of our family attend.

“It can’t have gone better – it was a wonderful day.”

RAIDERS

Canberra co-captain Jarrod Croker believes there’s a different “feel” around their preparations to 2020 after they make the grand final last season.

“We had a good season but at the end of the day we didn’t win the comp and that’s our goal,” Croker said.

“It’s going to be a different feel for us this year.

“A lot of teams are going to be coming after us. We’ve got to adjust to that, be prepared for that, and I’ve got no doubt we will be.

“We want to go one more this year.

“But we know there’s 15 other sides saying the same thing.

“We set a nice foundation last year, but now we start again.”

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BULLDOGS

Canterbury has given an update on a number of their injured stars via their website.

Recently re-signed skipper Josh Jackson is back in full training after a minor groin injury suffered before Christmas.

Kerrod Holland and Renouf To’omaga have returned to the main squad after shoulder and foot injuries respectively.

Marcelo Montoya and Sauaso Sue (both knee) will transition into the main squad over the next month with both to phase into skills work next week.

Jeremy Marshall-King continues his rehab following shoulder surgery and will take on skills work in the coming month.

Kieran Foran also continues his shoulder rehab and is now out of a brace. He’s due to have a follow-up appointment with the surgeon in a month’s time.

SHARKS

The battle for Cronulla’s vacant No.13 jersey appears to be a race in two with Jack Williams and Billy Magoulias vying for the spot.

Sharks coach John Morris said pre-season efforts will likely determine who takes over the role from the now-retired Paul Gallen.

“Jack’s got that experience over Bill at NRL level but he’s only a year or two older than him. But we all saw what Billy could do coming through there with Newtown,” Morris told NRL.com.

“I expect huge years from both of them, I’m really excited … Jack’s a very solid player, very physically strong, and Billy’s an old school, ball-playing middle forward that we don’t really see too much in our game, so that’s going to really change the way we play.”

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TITANS

Gold Coast star Kevin Proctor admits it’d be a “massive” loss if Jai Arrow were to leave the club early.

Arrow’s signed a four-year deal with South Sydney from 2021, with the Rabbitohs keen to get him to the club before the start of 2020.

“I just don’t reckon they should (release him),” Proctor said.

“He’s a really good player, and especially this late in the pre-season as well.

“Jai’s an important player to our club and everyone would be shattered if he does go. No one wants him to go next year either, but hopefully he can stick it out this year with us.”

SEA EAGLES

Tony Williams says Manly fans can expect a “different”, “new and improved” T-Rex in 2020.

Williams has signed an NRL deal with the Sea Eagles for this season after seven years away from the club.

He spent 2019 plying his trade for Manly feeder team Blacktown Workers after his sacking from Parramatta the previous season due to a second failed drug test.

“It was a very hard time for me, the first couple of months,” Williams told the Sea Eagles website.

“I had a good support base and had all my family around me. I had some good friends that helped me get through the hard time.

“It was only a short time, but I found myself again and my goal was just to get back on top and get back to where I should be.”

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STORM

Cameron Smith reckons Melbourne’s preparations to 2020 are “no different so far”.

“This is a period of the year we try to get as much work in as we can,” Smith told the Storm website.

“We want to give ourselves a really good opportunity to put ourselves in a good position to start the season.

“Something we probably pride ourselves on is making sure we’re ready to go Round 1 and not trying to build into the season.

“For me, it’s just about building combinations particularly with the younger guys in the squad.”

KNIGHTS

Newcastle captain Mitchell Pearce admits his leadership will be tested in 2020 after the Knights failed to make the finals despite showing plenty of promise last season.

“I’m not going to sit here and talk about winning the comp,” Pearce said.

“There’s eight weeks until the comp starts, we’ve got to win round one against the Warriors to give ourselves any chance for that.

“There’s great things happening up here, it was a disappointing end to last year, we all put our hand up.

“My leadership is going to be tested this year. I need to have a huge year for the club and as a group we know what we’re up for.”

COWBOYS

North Queensland director of football Peter Parr says the club will take their time filling the final spot on their roster for 2020.

Speaking after the retirement of Te Maire Martin, who was yet to officially sign on for this season while he recovered from a brain bleed, Parr said the club were happy to have the playmaker around “as long as it took”.

“We’ve got one roster spot open,” Parr said.

“We don’t have to fill that until the end of June, so we’ll take our time doing that.”

EELS

Parramatta head of athletic performance Brendan Inkster has given an update on injured centre Waqa Blake who is recovering from shoulder surgery following the World Cup Nines.

“We’ve still got Waqa in rehab, he’s progressing really well,” Inkster told the Eels website.

“We’ve just got to get a couple of certainties from the surgeon and he’ll be back into some skills in no time.”

PANTHERS

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RABBITOHS

South Sydney prop Thomas Burgess has joined a host of NRL stars in helping to raise funds for bushfire relief.

The Rabbitohs star is auctioning off his 2014 grand final winning replica jersey signed by the team and coach.

The auction ends on January 22 with the bidding already up to $2800.

DRAGONS

St George Illawarra coach Paul McGregor has praised is side’s “change of behaviour” since the start of pre-season.

“I think we probably walked past a few things last year that we wouldn’t have the year before in ways of our standards, values and behaviours at different stages,” McGregor said.

“We’re not letting anything go by now.

“We might’ve taken a little bit of comfort out of how good we went in 2018, however we had a few distractions come along and that took us away from what we needed to do which was doing the right things in the right times.

“We’ve been driving our culture hard.”

ROOSTERS

How can the Sydney Roosters make it a three-peat of titles in 2020?

Trent Robinson has offered up an insightful answer to that in an interview with NRL.com.

“In anyone’s life, 2020 will look different to 2019,” Robinson said.

“So when people ask you the question ‘Do you want to do it again?’ it seems we should answer ‘Well do you want to repeat 2019 or do you want to live a great 2020?’

“What that also says is you’re assuming we can’t do better, and we can do better. The game is evolving; our club is evolving; individual players are evolving so therefore our team needs to evolve. We are searching to be better again each year that we play the game.”

WARRIORS

Warriors legend Simon Mannering’s influence will continue on at the club following his appointment as part-time coach and mentor.

Mannering retired from NRL at the end of 2018 after 301 games across a 14-season career.

The 33-year-old will work with players from pathways to development and NRL.

“We couldn’t be more excited about Simon’s appointment,” Warriors CEO Cameron George said.

“He loves the club and wants to put his heart and soul into the right areas to improve our immediate and long-term future.

“We all know about his qualities as a player and person. He’s exceptional and will add fantastic knowledge and value to our football department, complementing our mix of new voices, new energy and new ideas as we head into the 2020 season.”

WESTS TIGERS

Recently retired hooker Robbie Farah will make a brief code switch in the name of charity.

The Wests Tigers legend will run out alongside a host of former Socceroos stars likes Brett Emerton and Luke Wilkshire for Albion Park City Invitational XI against NPL champions Wollongong Wolves.

The “Football for Firies” game will be played on Saturday at Ian McLennan Park at 6pm, with all proceeds raised going to the Salvation Army’s bushfire relief efforts on the NSW south coast.