By Freya Grant
April 3, 2004
NATHAN and Ian Hindmarsh couldn't care less about playing against each other for the first time at Canberra Stadium tonight but for their mum, it's her own worst nightmare.
Fiona Hindmarsh will make the two-hour drive from her property at
Robertson to watch her sons face off for the first time in their lives.
"I'm not looking forward to it at all, it's never happened before and it's nerve-racking," Mrs Hindmarsh said.
"Last year I was so excited because they didn't play each other ... Nathan was injured but now I wish they had because then it would be all over by now.
"Now I've got to sit through it."
Mrs Hindmarsh said that while her sons seemed unfazed by the prospect of their teams lining up on one another, Ian for the Raiders and Nathan for Parramatta, the game would be 80 minutes too long for her.
"I think knowing that one of them is going to lose, that is the hard thing," Mrs Hindmarsh said. "Whichever one loses is going to be so disappointed.
"I'm not thinking about them hurting each other, it's just knowing that one of them is going to end up feeling bad."
Yesterday, Ian was relaxing with a game of golf in the lead-up to the match. "I'm not nervous about playing Nathan, I'm more nervous about playing the old team," he said.
"We haven't really spoken about the match, we usually avoid talking about football. When we ring each other we just talk about life rather than football."
Ian said it was important to focus on the match rather than being concerned about laying a big tackle on his brother.
"I think the importance lies on getting the job done and I don't think I can justify going out of my way to give him special attention," he said.
The Daily Telegraph
