Dk: Well Michael the team has been named for First game against the warriors and Parramatta Fans its an exciting time.
MH: Yeah it will be, looking forward to round 1 of course we picked what we think is out best 17 for the first round bearing in mind of course that Eric Grothe and Nathan Hindmarsh Wont be there for week one and Justin Tsolous is another week or two away so apart from those couple of players we think were got something like our most experienced line up for round 1 against the warriors which is what we need.
DK: Can you give us an update on the Status of Both Eric and Nathan?
MH: Both are returning form different injuries and both may be considered for round 2 but at worst round 3 so you know that is an on going assessment of those players and Justin Tsolous would be in a Similar Category and Weller Huraki is also expected back in round 2 or round 3.
DK: How tough a job is it picking the first team of the season
MH: Yeah I guess that it is always difficult and thats bearing in mind there are some really good young players that havent been given the opportunity just at this stage but I''ve no doubt that they will get plenty of Opportunities during the year.
DK: Do you pick a side Bearing in Mind your opposition, obviously the warriors play a very physical side does that play on your mind especially when pick a bench for instance?
MH: Yeah a little bit and you know it is also our first road trip to New Zealand, you need to have I think players that are experienced and used to that type of thing and I think we have come up with a team that should be able to handle that
DK: What are you expecting form the Warriors?
MH: They were impressive in the way they played last year, probably they should have all but been in the Top 8 and their form in the trials, their form since Canterbury has been very good so I think we can expect them to be of the blocks pretty quickly so we are going to need to be up and matching them in those physical areas because they are pretty hard to handle first up.
DK: Probably a couple of difficult decisions for your probably with Joel Reddy on the Wing Replacing Eric ahead of Krisan Inu also Todd Lowrie on the bench ahead of Feleti, was first grade experience probably a big factor there?
MH: Yeah probably counted in their favor a little bit although I have been very happy with Krisan Inu's performance against the
Roosters I was more than happy with and Feleti Mateo has been there about in the Trials and I think he is going to be a very good
player for us but at this stage I though we would go with Proven players and also Joel Reddy has also been Tremendous in Pre-season
He hasn't missed a session and he has been very good in the trials also.
DK: Talking of the trials any Key area that the club needs to improve on for Game 1?
MH: Yeah I think the Trials we good and I think you know we got out of then Physically what we needed, Most of the players in the first 17 have played at least 2 trials and Mark Riddell has now played 3 games I think he will be in a lot better touch than he'd have been at this time of the year last year but obvious things like controlling the football a bit better you know we were untidy in the first half against the Roosters a fortnight ago so you know those are the things that playing against the Warriors you want to improve.
