He obviously had a much better game on the weekend, but we've got to look at that, |
He played a full game with a broken nose only a couple of weeks ago, so he is pretty tough. I was not surprised about that. |
He played against them earlier this year and I think he enjoys the challenge of those contests as much as the rest of our guys do. He did well early last year but then was out and we missed him in the business end of the season. |
He spent a couple of years there, he knows what is going on. |
He was going to head to Europe and we made some moves to incorporate him in our academy because we thought he was too good a player to lose overseas. |
He's a bit old school in that context. |
He's always fit but he just needs to tune up a bit and he's keen to do that - and when he trains he is full on. |
He's been putting pressure on and I was pleased to give him an opportunity. I thought he handled it well. |
He's the kind of guy who doesn't fear getting stuck in and it's that kind of quality that makes people want to play alongside him. |
He's trained hard this week and has performed well in the role for the Wallabies in the past so we're confident in his ability to call the shots on Friday. |
I assume they are drawing a line in the sand at this point in time and from now on everyone who is guilty of any off-field incident with alcohol is going to suffer a similar penalty. |
I can understand why they made the decision but I haven't been mischievous. It wasn't such an evil beast. It had merit and didn't have a lot of warts. |
I don?t think there?s much more we can do. |
I don't know if Jeff's a betting man or what odds he's giving, but I'd actually get into that. |
I felt my first year we definitely suffered when he wasn't available [through injury] and I think the wins and losses probably proved that. I think we took a step forward last year and we've continued to recruit to make sure we're not solely reliant on one player in any position. So I'll just use these next couple of games to have a look at the options. |