STRATEGIC SELECTIONS

QEach year, the Pride get a number of players allocated to the club from the Cowboys to play when they’re not getting a run at the top level. Given Enari Tuala (right), Jake Clifford and Gideon Gela-Mosby will be likely spending most of their time in Townsville, do you need to be strategic about picking who comes back?

AI was pretty strategic about it this year. I asked for a younger group of players that we could build the club’s future around. A lot of those boys are a good chance to play a lot more games for the Cowboys next year. But the local boys trained with them all this season and saw what they were doing. It means they know what they need to improve on.