By PETER ROWE 
Rugby League superstar Latrell Mitchell looks fit and ready for action ahead of tomorrow’s NRL season opener in Las Vegas.

Mitchell, appeared on Fox’s NRL 360 on Thursday, confident and full of jokes, after a 2023 season he and South Sydney would prefer to forget.

“To see Latrell last night as he was, was a real positive for the Rabbitohs,” Fox host Braith Anasta said. “You can see the rest of the team are going to get behind what he is thinking.”

Souths are a top six side in m most pundits’ mind – but if Mitchell and Cody walker don’t fire – as happened late last season they might miss out again.

“When I was young, I used to run around people. Now I’m 26 or 27, I just run over them,” Mitchell told AAP at the launch in Vegas.

“You’ve got to make your own space. It’s a tighter game, tighter field. It will just be feeling each other’s game.

“The entertainment is going to be there, it’s going to be there but it’s just about feeling our way through round one and getting the cobwebs off. We’re buzzing.”

The size of the field – five metres narrower – has dominated talk in Vegas – and the field is also shorter – just 94.5 metres compared to the standard 100m in Australia.

Not that that seems to worry Mitchell. “We’ll just go up the middle then,” he joked.

The double header season opener kicks off at 1.30pm AEST and 10.30am on the west coast.

South Sydney Rabbitohs v Manly Sea Eagles, followed by Brisbane Broncos v Sydney Roosters.