Kalyn Ponga | Round 26 Media

Round 25 Review massive game on Saturday how you feeling after it um good good yeah yeah no sorry um yeah no good obviously got the got the two points um things to work on things to clean up heading into this week in these next two rounds but overall happy with the result um massive game from yourselfs heaps of guys sort of really turning up and out um you know is this a sign of what you guys are hoping to do in the next two weeks as well definitely Team and Personal Form I think um a lot of boys have perform being perform pering well over the last 3 four five weeks um uh for different reasons obviously we know what's ahead of us we know what we need to do and I think um yeah it's good to see I guess leaders you know stepping up and and Performing and for yourself you've been back now for six seven weeks um from the foot injury how are you feeling in your game and you know you do you feel like you're really hitting your straps now and your full capacity uh I think I'm getting better each week since the injury um yeah it was unfortunate I missed that that 10 week block um I think I'm yeah just working on things trying to prepare as best as I can um but definitely I guess training in the right direction and I mean the next two weeks are pretty much due or die how do you guys prepare for that are you thinking differently keeping things the same what's what's different in preparation uh I think our prep has has Differences in Preparation been pretty consistent which is good um obviously the intensity probably just lifts a little bit uh the emphasis on a few things um is probably brought to our attention a little bit more but I think the processes are all the same I think when you get onto the field it's just obviously just leave nothing in the tank one of those things was you know the sort of the starts where you guys have been coming a bit undone in some games how do you fix that and make sure you're going in without the nerves without the jittering US that we sort of Saw on on Saturday yeah we definitely did start that way um I thought probably our opening 10 15 probably wasn't where we need needed it to be and I guess the positive is we flipped it around and uh we got through that period um I think it's hard I think it's about leaders just keeping the group present um nailing what we have to do in preparation and U making sure that we start you know stealing and tough and um you know through that through that start that'll set up the game for us one of those leaders um is fr who's obviously out now for this weekend um who are you sort of expecting to step up into his place or is it sort of like a group thing everyone sort of steps up and you know um drives forward this weekend Frizell Replacement definitely a group thing uh I think I'm not too sure who will fill his jersey um but no doubt they'll do their role um but yeah you know with him being out of the team it's definitely a collective um that'll sort of fill that spot I guess it's not right to lose Personnel but You' be proud of the team you have recently and other players have stepped up and it happened again against the BU as well know that yeah there is that resilience amongst the larger playing group definitely I think uh over the Resilience year or over the last couple years I that's probably been our strength in a sense is whenever our teams really against know backs against the wall um during a game sort of come through those periods pretty well and um yeah it is unfortunate to lose both back rers um but the boys that stepped up did a great job and no doubt they'll do the same thing this weekend Adam was saying overall he was impressed you said there were some ugly bits there other than the start what else do you think he's referring to what do you want to see from the team moving forward I think it would be the start that he's referring to um I don't think Fixing Starts and Discipline we nailed the start I thought we were loosen our contact UM and that's you know that's largely a big portion of the game you know was winning the Rock and I feel like we lost it at the start it's probably going to be a focus for us moving forward a big Focus for us has been our discipline as well um I think that was all right over the weekend but moving into his last two hopefully more games you know those things have to be sharp so just getting that process right Titans at home this weekend how do you feel about that type of game uh excited Returning Home for Mining Round you know anytime you're back home you know wearing the the mining Jersey is a special round for us um mining means so much to this town which means it means a lot to us as a as a club and as a team and I think it's 2: p.m. on Sunday there's probably no better time to to play footy here in the hunter so uh no doubt you know they'll be supporting us there'll be a lot of lot of people there supporting us we're excited by that you some results to go your way to get into the finals one of those results was yesterday when canala won does that give ever r a bit of a boost uh yes I think so well I if it was Outside Results smiling on the cap so um yeah I watched that game obviously happy with the result there still we still have to control what we can control um we've got two games ahead of us we know what we need to do there and we're excited by that challenge um yeah I don't know what else needs to be done to be honest um moving forward but I know that we can control we all we can controls what you know what we can do on the weekend so that's our Focus that's where that's our where our heads are at and obviously there's an Australian team picked at the end of the year for those Pacific championships do you give yourself a shot to get them pick this year I'm not really thinking Australian Team about that to be honest um been hopeful in previous years but I can't control what happens there just want to perform well well prep well and now these last two games