A former Tonga international with more than 200 combined games of experience in the NRL and Super League headlines the new signings for the Tweed Seagulls in 2020.

For the most part however, Ben Woolf’s squad will have a similar look to last year, and outside of the addition of some good acquisitions; developing players progressing from last year’s young squads will be a big focus for the club this upcoming season.

A big addition for Tweed is Fetuli Talanoa, a talented 32-year-old outside back who has returned from Hull where he played 130 games – including two winning Challenge Cup finals at Wembley – which came after an eight-season stint with South Sydney where he made 95 appearances.

Amongst the other fresh faces are players with some interesting family lines.

One is Ethan O’Neill who is the son of former Brisbane Broncos, Queensland Maroons and Australian Test back Julian O’Neill and Will Brimson, older brother of Titans fullback and Queensland Maroons squad member Alexander Brimson.

O’Neill has joined from the Sydney Roosters where he played under 20s last year while Brimson, 24, played in the NYC competition for the Broncos and Intrust Super Cup for Wynnum Manly before spending the two years taking a break from the game after being worried by persistent injuries.

“I’ve known Will for ages through Keebra Park (high school) and tried to get him here at the start of pre-season after he’d been overseas, but he wasn’t sure,” Woolf said.

“He agreed to come down and do an opposed session with us and has stayed and he’s been really good in the trials. He could prove a pretty handy acquisition.”