McHunt
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Coach of the Year 2018 foreshadows this round's line-up to a highly respected Courier Mail journalist:
“Ben Te’o will come into our 17. It’s another opportunity to have a bigger body in our group and he has a lot of experience. We didn’t have Ben train with us last week, but he has trained a couple of times now, we only need him to play a small role off the bench for us. I just think having him part of the group is important. He has played in the biggest games in both codes around the world (having played for England in rugby). To add a big body, ideally it would have been great for Ben to play a game of Queensland Cup but we don’t have that luxury this year."
“I thought long and hard about it, he trained really well on Sunday and although he hasn’t been league for some time we feel he can do the job for us."
He confirms that rumoured move:
"We need to look at adding some experience to the back row. ’Oatesy’ has come through as a back-rower, he has always wanted to play back row so I feel he can do the job there this week. We need to turn our performance around this week and we will make some positional changes. Corey Oates will spend some time in the back row with the injuries we’ve got to our starting back-rowers.”
And even cracks a joke, when asked about midstream changes in direction:
“There’s no changes to the halves. After the first two games, Brodie and Anthony combined really well.”
Wouldn't change a thing.
“In a week where you get beaten as badly as you do, you would think there is a list a mile long, but that’s not the answer in my experience. I have been coaching for 15 years in regards to what needs to be done in the short term. We are focusing on a few critical things, if we narrow our focus to Thursday night’s game against Manly and that’s the best way forward for us. I wanted the group to come in hurting a bit over the weekend and have to put in some hard work, that’s the reality after the first two weeks."
Putting in some hard work
“People can’t forget we are 2-2. We have been really poor the last three halves of footy, but I have belief in the group and we are narrowing the focus to two or three things and if we focus on this week we will give a good performance.”
McHunt
“Ben Te’o will come into our 17. It’s another opportunity to have a bigger body in our group and he has a lot of experience. We didn’t have Ben train with us last week, but he has trained a couple of times now, we only need him to play a small role off the bench for us. I just think having him part of the group is important. He has played in the biggest games in both codes around the world (having played for England in rugby). To add a big body, ideally it would have been great for Ben to play a game of Queensland Cup but we don’t have that luxury this year."
“I thought long and hard about it, he trained really well on Sunday and although he hasn’t been league for some time we feel he can do the job for us."
He confirms that rumoured move:
"We need to look at adding some experience to the back row. ’Oatesy’ has come through as a back-rower, he has always wanted to play back row so I feel he can do the job there this week. We need to turn our performance around this week and we will make some positional changes. Corey Oates will spend some time in the back row with the injuries we’ve got to our starting back-rowers.”
And even cracks a joke, when asked about midstream changes in direction:
“There’s no changes to the halves. After the first two games, Brodie and Anthony combined really well.”
Wouldn't change a thing.
“In a week where you get beaten as badly as you do, you would think there is a list a mile long, but that’s not the answer in my experience. I have been coaching for 15 years in regards to what needs to be done in the short term. We are focusing on a few critical things, if we narrow our focus to Thursday night’s game against Manly and that’s the best way forward for us. I wanted the group to come in hurting a bit over the weekend and have to put in some hard work, that’s the reality after the first two weeks."
Putting in some hard work
“People can’t forget we are 2-2. We have been really poor the last three halves of footy, but I have belief in the group and we are narrowing the focus to two or three things and if we focus on this week we will give a good performance.”
McHunt
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