The big unknown in new Sea Eagles era… and superstar facing make-or-break year

The home locker room at the northern end of 4 Pines Park is a world away from the Brookvale of old. It’s fresh, expansive, and smells of ambition. But just a few hundred meters away, the away sheds remain a relic of a harder era—pokey, cramped, with that famous padding on the low ceilings to keep even the short players from knocking themselves out before they hit the field.