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It's a lucky thing that Peter O'Sullivan loves what he does.
Being the recruitment manager for an NRL team is a year-round job - you're always scouting for talent.
"It's 24-7 I keep telling the CEO," the Warriors' recruitment boss joked to The Leader as he watched the players go through their paces at Scully Park on Tuesday.
But he wouldn't have it any other way.
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With the Warriors for three years now, O'Sullivan has been finding the next big thing for 25 years, working previously with St George, the Roosters and Melbourne.
Regarded as one of the most astute talent spotters in the game, those he has been responsible for signing over the years include Greg Inglis, Israel Folau, Billy Slater, Latrell Mitchell and current Warriors captain Roger Tuivasa-Sheck.
Welcoming a number of key signings this season, one of the priorities for O'Sullivan was size.
"We were a small team, I think we were probably un-Warrior like," he said.
"The name lends itself to big athletic men and I think in the past when they've had success, they were big athletic men and had clever players, so we've really made a conscious effort in the last year-and-a-half to really change the physical structure of the team."
It was one of the appeals of the likes of Addin Fonua-Blake and Kane Evans. O'Sullivan has known Evans since he was a teenager, bringing him to the Roosters, and said as well as his size and athleticism he brings a lot of enthusiasm and that winning mentality.
"Winning's a trait and he brings that with him, and Addin's the same; came through the system and played in successful teams," he said.
Bayley Sironen is another notable signing.
O'Sullivan conceded at the start of last year, he wouldn't have really thought about the second rower.
"I haven't seen a player improve as much in an NRL sense as what Bayley did last year. He shocked the life out of me to be honest," he said.
"I had a chat to him but we didn't have a spot available at the time. Then when Nathan (Brown) came in he just said I want this sort of player and he named four sort of traits, he wanted someone that could play middle/edge, skillful, footy IQ, and make some tackles, and I said 'Bayley's your man'."
Just missing out on the finals last year and with what he believes is "a much better squad" this year, O'Sullivan doesn't believe they should be putting a ceiling on what they can achieve.
"We won eight games last year and I would forsee that we're going to improve on that and improve well."
"We just want to be as good as we can be and if we're as good as we can be we'll be up there."
"Obviously getting off to a good start to the year is vital."
After what he termed a "flush run" on Monday to get out the stiffness and soreness following a long day travelling on Sunday, they started to "amp up the intensity" on Tuesday, albeit conscious of not going "too hard too early".
"Last year when we came here out of lockdown we were kind of forced into a three-week speed dating process basically, to get up to speed," O'Sullivan said.
"We learnt some lessons from that."