The 2 biggest factors in our defence in 2024 were injuries in the backline and sinbins. Your backs all going well should play 80 minutes but we lost backs to injury mid game in 16 of 24 games (we won 5 of the other 8). We also gave up a lot of points in our losses when outside backs were injured or players were sinbinned.
In addition to this keeping our spine on the field was a major issue - when any of Sezer, Galvin, Api didn't play we lost, when they played we had a winning record and the losses were against top 4 teams (5 from 10 with 4 of the losses against the top 4 plus Broncos early season last yrs GF).
This tells me that the most important addition to our this year is Jack Bird at lock because if we lose a back mid game he can shift out to an edge.
We also need better spine depth for when one is out which I would suggest we have if via them getting more experience last year in Fainu, DeSilva, Douehi as well.
The other focus which is obvious to everyone is discipline - not every sin bin can be avoided but most could have been
