LOCAL FAMILY FIRED UP

Q Football aside, it must be exciting to come home this week and see some friends and family that you would not have seen for a while?

A My family are really looking forward to the game. My nephew Harry (pictured) playing for Cairns as well, is exciting for me. I am coming up to see family but it is work. We have to concentrate on the game itself first and make sure we get the job done, then the family I can see after we win the game. I might have a chance to see the family on the Monday but it is an important game on the Tuesday that we need to prepare for. There is lots of video stuff that we need to work on and make sure we know how Cairns play and how we want to play against them. It is a big deal for the region. We have the best team in Australia for the last few seasons coming up to Cairns. It is great for the Cairns FC players, the public to get behind the game and our guys. It was what I wanted actually, it’s good, it’s where I’m from, my nephew plays for them and it’s great that we could get the draw to play them, it worked out perfectly. I know a little bit about them [Cairns FC], I don’t always get to look at them because I’m down here, but I hear from my brother and from my nephew. They’ve got some good players up there with a lot of pace, especially in the front line so it’s exciting. There’ll be banter between the family, they’re Queenslanders but they go for us in the ALeague.