Former NRL forward arrives at Orange CYMS

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WATCH: How former NRL forward plans to turn CYMS around

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00:00 A few of the lads that are here at the club,

00:01 obviously Anthony Redfern being the main one,

00:04 had a bit to do with him when I was here last, back in '21.

00:07 Got in touch with me sort of midway through the year.

00:12 Obviously, unfortunately, the club was sort of

00:15 in a spot where they were in a bit of a bother,

00:17 more so with personnel.

00:18 I know it was sort of a tough decision,

00:21 especially halfway through the year,

00:22 we were sitting pretty good with Parks,

00:24 and I actually really enjoyed my time at Parks.

00:28 They're a really well-run club,

00:30 from top to bottom, I admire them.

00:31 Reece Draper's already signed,

00:32 he's come back from Newcastle.

00:33 I think he's a massive addition.

00:35 You know, guys similar, Ethan Moraine,

00:38 and yeah, a few other guys who were around in 2021

00:40 when I was here,

00:41 that either haven't played this year or have gone elsewhere,

00:46 to get those guys back around first,

00:48 and then once we get the sort of the local contingent

00:51 sort of signing up and seeing where we're at,

00:52 and then they'll go elsewhere

00:53 outside of the Group 10/11 area.

00:55 One thing that I've found in country footy

00:57 for my short time that I've been out here is,

00:59 A, you've got to be fit, you've got to have depth.

01:00 You know, if you've got a good regis team,

01:02 you're generally going to have a pretty good first grade team.

01:04 So you want, 'cause you're going to need,

01:05 you're going to have to rely on them at some stage

01:07 throughout the year with injuries and commitments,

01:09 you also have work and family, those kind of things.

01:11 So you're going to need,

01:13 you're going to need to have those guys in regis

01:15 understand what it's like to be a first grade,

01:16 they'd be good enough when they're called up

01:18 to fill in those spots as well.

01:19 If you can get a culture of a group of lads

01:21 that enjoy being around each other,

01:23 I think that shows on the footy field.

01:24 And I mean, even this year with Sims,

01:26 although it was tough,

01:28 I think it showed that they never gave up.

01:30 So I think the culture's already there.

01:31 It's not a matter about changing that,

01:33 it's about just bringing in that depth

01:35 and the guys that are there and improving on it.

01:38 So there's competition, whereas,

01:40 similar to when I was at Carra last year,

01:42 when you don't have depth,

01:45 there's nothing you can really do.

01:47 You sort of, you can't train,

01:49 you can't train as hard

01:50 because you're trying to keep guys there and healthy and fit.

01:53 So I think it's just a matter of,

01:54 work on what Ethan had this year

01:56 and then just improving on that

01:57 with a bit of depth behind it.

01:58 So we can really make selection obviously a bit harder.

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