British Bronco Greg Eden struggles in the heat and humidity in his first week Greg Eden during training drills for his new club, the Brisbane Broncos. FOUR days into his Australian adventure, Broncos" British fullback Greg Eden was trailing props during running drills and gasping for humid air his body could not handle. Friday morning's endurance training session at Purtell Park was labelled the "Bronco Buster" by the club's strength and conditioning staff. Eden bent, but to his credit he did not break, although he was last in his group which included prop recruit Mitch Garbutt. Eden was slow but he refused to quit during quick-fire 40 metre sprint drills. An athletic back likened to Billy Slater, Eden has struggled in his first week of training after leaving Castleford in northern England for Brisbane last weekend, but he is here to challenge himself and set new standards. Greg Eden during training drills. "The air is just a lot thicker so when you are trying to get your breath it is a struggle to get it down and you get this awful burning feeling in your throat,"" Eden said. I'm struggling quite a bit in this heat. It will be good in the long run but it is quite tough. This is way hotter than any of our summer days. It can only get better. I just have to keep with it."" Eden will struggle to crack the Broncos" starting side for Round 1 but will contend to be the Broncos" Mr Fixit off the bench - especially now Wayne Bennett has given Ben Barba his marching orders. The squad is split into several groups to do pool work, weights and endurance drills. Bennett has only been briefly sighted at field training this week, spending less than two minutes watching from his car on Wednesday. While conspiracy theories abound, NRL coaches are not needed at this point of the season, which is strictly about conditioning. Eden said he had no expectations of cracking the Broncos team and only wanted to improve himself as a player. "This is all about competition for places,"" he said. I just want to get my face in there and improve as a player and see where it takes me. I can play anywhere in the backline really. From being a kid it has always been a big aspiration of mine to give it a try in the NRL. A manager from Australia got in touch with me halfway through last season and wondered what I had going on next year and it went from there. As soon as there was an opportunity I just snatched it. We will see where it takes us.""