The chance to emulate his brothers Tom and Jake and pull on a NSW Blues jersey might still seem a long way off but Ben Trbojevic is certainly displaying what good judges call ‘representative potential’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now in his sixth season in the top grade and with 76 games to his name, the 24-year-old is revelling under new coach Kieran Foran as Manly carry a four-game winning streak into a huge showdown against the Panthers on Sunday.<\/p>\n
By way of reference, Tom made his Origin debut in 2018 off 66 NRL games, while oldest brother Jake debuted for NSW in 2017 after 58 NRL games.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeing Tom and Jake play for the Blues and for Australia is pretty cool,\u201d Ben said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously it\u2019s a goal for me as I\u2019m sure it is for every NRL player.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so keen to do my best for Manly each week and try to keep this winning streak going.<\/p>\n
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Jake Trbojevic Try<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to focus each week on Manly get the results there but I do think I\u2019m getting more confident. I\u2019m backing myself a bit more and more willing to throw the pass when I think it\u2019s on.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I\u2019ll keep training hard and hopefully keep going forward.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ben was the most creative of the Sea Eagles in their 33-18 win over Parramatta with two line breaks, one line break assist, a try assist, two tackle busts and two offloads.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Across eight rounds he averages 127 metres a game and has a tackle efficiency of 92.5 per cent.<\/p>\n
His 50-metre dash late in the match down Manly\u2019s eastern sideline in front of a packed Brookie hill proved he has a good set of wheels underneath him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI ended up on the wing for a bit and when I got to the fullback I didn\u2019t know what to do so I saw someone inside so I kicked it,\u201d Trbojevic told NRL.com.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut Reuben bombed it so I didn\u2019t get the try assist.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He did nail one earlier with a superb offload in the 56th minute for his halfback Jamal Fogarty to scoot away and score.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Jamal Fogarty Try<\/p>\n
Wins over the Dolphins, Dragons, Cowboys and Eels under Foran’s guidance have reaped 151 points at an average of 38 per game, while they have conceded just 60 points.<\/p>\n
\u201cFoz has put belief back in the squad after the start to the year where we kind of lost our way a bit,\u201d Ben said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s really led the boys well but there\u2019s a long way to go and next week [against the Panthers] is another massive one.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chance to emulate his brothers Tom and Jake and pull on a NSW Blues jersey might still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-635288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}