Steve Folkes
Steve Folkes
Steve Folkesis a former Australian rugby league test footballer and former coach of the Bulldogs in the National Rugby League. He is currently the assistant coach of the St George Illawarra Dragons...
mentally overcoming
It's frustrating overcoming it mentally (but) he's just got to live with it.
fitted good listener
He's a good listener and he's fitted in really well.
experience improve learning physically playing skill
His skill may not improve but just learning from experience of playing at that level, you would think physically he would mature.
degree fair imagine might pain trained week
We thought he might have been (a chance) but he trained during the week and he's still in a fair degree of pain with it. I don't imagine that will change.
attitude games last lost players poor terrific year
We lost some of those games last year because of poor attitude and the attitude of the players has been terrific through the off-season.
bench coming minutes playing step test
When he does play for us he'll be coming off the bench for 20 minutes and that's a big step up to playing 80 minutes in a Test match.