pretty refreshed after the uh after the bar week uh we lucked out having uh Easter weekend off so everyone spent time with their families and and friends and uh yeah we're ready to go come Thursday night what' you get up to you yeah I actually uh had a couple days at home which was really good back at uh jingong on the south coast so um spent some time at the beach and and yeah mentally preparing for the game as well obviously a Thursday game so it comes around quick but yeah like I said we're we're ready to go and looking forward to the challenge so I think um Jerome is back this game how's that going to affect the spine yeah I think uh it'll go to um I guess depending on where moner's at uh I'm assuming back to back to where it was the first two weeks and I'll probably be on the bench but it's a guessing game uh until Tuesday arvo I guess that's when the team list come out so we'll find out and uh talk to Craig and and see what happens there it must be yeah a weird one for you cuz like hearing that even you guys don't know how how cams go on like but you just got to be be ready for anything don't yeah exactly I think um the way the game is at the moment it's fast and uh chance of of injury sorry is it's pretty high so um depth in a squad's pretty important and feel like our Squad uh has got good depth and um you know we didn't have our best game on Sunday night but uh you know we we'll learn from that and take it forward if we get another chance uh to play in the halves again so there's a chance that could be Jerome and monster both back that's obviously pretty huge ins for you guys yeah for sure like I said I'm I'm not too sure with uh where they're at obviously J Jerome will be back and that'll be massive for the team um his leadership and uh you know his experience in the team is is huge and um I think the boys will get a lot of confidence out of that um but yeah obviously waiting on moner as well um when he's back and ready the the team will be uh better for it sweet thanks mate thanks mate was she cut what we two and a half years in your NRL career and you've had this sort of adjust to being this fill in player has it become easier the longer you've gone or or you become a little bit more frustrated because you can't get a spot um oh I think I think a bit of both um obviously uh you want to be a starting a starting player you know you don't want to be a bench player your whole life but um you know I'm I'm loving my role here at the moment um I think over the last two and a half years like you said I've sort of found ways to get better at preparing uh to play positions uh that I'm probably not not used to training at and everything so uh finding ways to better prepare and um yeah it's actually quite enjoyable at times I do like the challenge of playing different positions but yeah when I get a chance to to play play in the spine uh I love it looked like you were told to to run the ball a fair bit against the knights was that right and obviously cashed in at the end there yeah yeah probably should have ran a bit more in the first half but our uh our completion rate wasn't too good I think we're at about 50% so that's not going to win your footy games but um yeah just sort of I think the whole team in the second half played to everyone's individual strengths which uh is what you should be doing unfortunately we didn't do that in the first half but yeah Runnings I feel one of mine so uh fell back to that so I think um Edge back rower I don't know if you've done that yet front row are you going to tick the whole box before we finished or what's going to happen yeah I think I'd like to I don't know about front row probably won't take the tough carries off The Back Fence but uh I actually played a bit of Front Row in the uh Q Cup last year but I was playing more of a of a lock but I had the T on my back which was pretty funny um but yeah obviously you never know what's going to happen in a game might get put in the back row just got to uh deal with it and carry on it's Craig giving you a good break over since that last game like you did a bit of training but had a few days off yeah yeah we had a solid uh week last week leading into the the weekend off um so everyone physically is is prepared come this uh Thursday night but yeah like I said before it was good having a weekend off and um you know everyone just relaxed and I think that's good for the for the uh mental side of it um yeah Thursday night we're all looking forward to it we got a couple of good solid sessions under our belt this week so we'll attack that uh and yeah hopefully prepare well for Thursday did you happen to spy any of the Broncos Cowboys game or did you take a complete break from footy no I like watching footy um I was pretty busy catching up with with friends and family on the weekend but I did catch a bit of that game and uh yeah they're obviously to both two very good teams um obviously the Broncos coming off a successful season last year Fallen one short obviously but I think their uh their mentality is pretty strong this year they want to go one better so we'll have to bring our a game come [Music] Thursday