Leeds Rhinos teenage prospect Joe Diskin

Yorkshire Evening Post

Teenager Joe Diskin reflects on his first appearance for Leeds Rhinos and reveals his ambitions for the future.

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00:00We hope to find an opportunity and hopefully win the article.

00:05You've played at full-back, is that your position?

00:07Well, I'm not actually sure what my position is yet.

00:10I play hooker as well, or full-back, but I'm not actually sure yet.

00:14I'm happy playing in both positions.

00:16Yeah, you got, I think you got the full second half, didn't you?

00:20That's been good to play for the 10,000 crowd at Headingley, that amount of game time.

00:26Yeah, really good.

00:27It's mad how much nerves do take a toll on you, which I know.

00:30A few drop more, but after that, it's set me up, obviously, for myself,

00:33dressing the role in the game.

00:35Have you always been an Elites fan?

00:36Always, but I was born into it, so I think I'm not a big fan.

00:40Where do you live in that?

00:41How old are you?

00:4272.

00:44It's very young to be thrown into that environment, isn't it?

00:47You're going to be better for it in the long run, the experience,

00:51having had a taste of that in the dressing room.

00:53Yeah, 100 per cent, 100 per cent it will be.

00:56What are your ambitions for this season?

00:58You've been training with the first team.

00:59You're still, obviously, an academy player.

01:01How do you feel?

01:03Hopefully, yeah.

01:04Hopefully to push on and try and work myself into that team,

01:06but at the moment I'm just learning and learning off of the players,

01:09but that's in the long run, yeah, hopefully.

01:12How good is the training you're doing with the first team?

01:14Really good, really good this pre-season.

01:16It's tough, really tough, but I've learnt a lot, learnt a lot.

01:20It must be good to see what the lifestyle is like away from a match day as well.

01:26Yeah, well, training is class.

01:29It's the best job ever, rugby league, the best job ever,

01:32so to make that full-time, I'd love to do that.

01:34And you've had a big supporter?

01:36Yeah, a big supporter.

01:38Presumably that's how you got into rugby league,

01:41you've always been in that sort of environment.

01:44Does that help, you think?

01:46It does as well, yeah, but my dad, he said it's my time now,

01:49you have your half-time, you make your own name,

01:52which I like, which is good for me.

01:54Yeah, and is it Dewsbury Mall you play at?

01:57Yeah, Dewsbury Mall.

01:58Yeah, there's a few Dewsbury Mall lads, isn't there?

02:00Yeah, yeah, there's lots of Dewsbury Mall lads.

02:02That's obviously good for that club, and for you I suppose,

02:05there's familiar faces around.

02:06Yeah, really, really good club, Dewsbury Mall.

02:08They've got a lot of young lads, young talent coming through.

02:11Perfect.

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