To be fair the Storm completely failed with Pahulu recently and have had a few players regress there in the past year for the first time in forever. Their forwards and backs were pretty horrible this year, Munster regressed a bit but more due to age than coaching i'd imagine and Pahulu looked like a blue chip first grader debuting young at the Titans until they drove him out of the club trying to nickle and dime him over a bonus, Storm picked him up and then he just disappeared so obviously didn't develop as intended and is now off to the Raiders most likely. He was touted as a possible future origin player when he was 18 and now he's stuck outside first grade at 22.
They've pretty clearly failed to develop Howarth to his potential too, he had one good year in 2025 but has otherwise been close to a bust for a blue chip prospect as well and at this point yes he's a first grader but barely.
Pezet and Wishart don't seem to be the new Munster and Hughes either the way the Storm clearly initially intended them to be and now both have moved on. Pezet may still make it at the Broncos but it's TBD
Cooper Clarke seems to be going well but beyond that they don't seem to be developing anyone special at the moment, Fa'alogo obviously has insane talent in attack and is going well in that regard but he's still a defensive liability at this point granted he has time. TBD on their new young halfback as we haven't seen enough of him yet
I would have thought for sure Pahulu would be a solid first grader by now though but he's gone from looking like the third best middle at the Titans when he was way too young to be playing first grade to just nothing at the Storm.
