2025 kicks off with The Tip Sheet welcoming in a new guest host as Chris Ricketts joins the show. Sixties and Forty20 get straight into the action with Chris as they look at all the new recruits for the club and nominate who is going to make the biggest difference for the Eels. Between the likes of Zac Lomax, Josh Addo-Carr, Isaiah Iongi and Jack Williams it is a loaded class and it makes for a cracking discussion. Naturally the boys follow it up with a chat about which incumbent player improves the most in 2025 and why?

The Canterbury Bulldogs dominate an otherwise quiet news cycle with their monster signing of Leo Thompson. How much does the Newcastle bookend improve Canterbury's pack in 2026 and do the Dogs make a push for an early release? Another piece of roster news out of Belmore comes with the rumours linking young talent Karl Oloapu to the Dolphins while the Dogs take a blow off the field with asbestos and heavy metals found in the soil of the site of their Centre of Excellence.