Really, how much?

If you ask Orange City co-coaches Steve Hamson and Mick Gray, very little.

“It’ll take half a dozen games before you work out who’s who in the zoo,” Gray said after watching his Lions run rough-shot over the Parkes Boars at Pride Park, the 12-try romp rocketing the City to top of the table.

Hamson agreed.

“You don’t know until you get through the first round to see where you really lie,” Hamson said.

“I thought we struggled with our defensive structure at the breakdown early on but got better at that in the second half, but [Parkes had] some handy blokes tight.

“Our ball retention didn’t let them into the game and our pressure was good.”

As with every other side out of last weekend’s season opening round, Orange City has plenty to learn from after its round one encounter.

As expected, Orange Emus were strong in winning against Bathurst Bulldogs - another side tipped to contend in 2015.

Cowra proved it’ll be there or thereabouts with a forward-orientated win over CSU while Forbes has recruited smartly, but still went down to Mudgee in the opening round - a result that probably says more about the improvement in the Wombats than it does any perceived dip from the Platypi.

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While, for all of the players the club lost after winning the competition in 2014, Dubbo was still strong enough to travel to Cale Oval and beat Narromine, and that’s never easy.

But just where each side sits, as Hamson and Gray said, will be clearer as the rounds progress.

Wary not to let the mountain of points already on the board overshadow any slight weakness across the board, both Hamson and Gray are expected to put their side through its paces at training this week - particularly at the set piece.

Parkes at least matched it with the Lions at both the line-out and at times won crucial ball off Orange City at the scrum, although the Lions did enjoy strong ball while scrimmaging early in the piece.

Hamson said the gigantic victory enabled the club to use plenty of players in round one, and that’s always a positive.

“We just about emptied the bench,” he said.

“We were starting to get a bit unstructured and a bit lose around the paddock and as one of our guys said, we had three phases to get ourselves together and we didn’t ... but that’s our first real hit-out. We haven’t played footy together since the Cowra 10s.

“You’d be pretty happy with that as a first up hit-out for the year.”