Jayden Broome

Uh, it was like, I made the Southern Academy the start of year 11.

Oh yeah.

So, um, if you know, you know, Scotty.

Yep.

So he's, he's an unbelievable mentor of mine.

He, um, he took a chance on me at a young, young age.

So usually at that age in the Academy, there was predominantly Southern boys, kids, and it might be odd, like other school kid.

And then, um,

I know he took a chance on me right like straight away my seniors and then I know just always kept me in and then I know like just trusting my where I think where I keep thick I always I always ask questions I was always messaging all sorts of night like how do I do this how do I do this I even do it now I send him clips like oh yeah is it like

this is what we should be doing and all that stuff.

So, I don't know, I've had, yeah, like, I've had unbelievable mentors through rugby and the academy pathway, a lot of the coaches in the academy in South and they're, like, they're really good, I reckon, so.

Proud Southland man.

Really?

I just like, I don't, I don't know.

I just think like,

With the pre-season game, it was once again, I had to remind myself I'm good enough to be here because I was playing flankers like Will Stoddart and, like, big flankers.

And I was like, jeez, like... How heavy were you?

I was 9'2".

9'2", oh, yeah.

So, like, I was... Will Stoddart would have been, like, 110 or something.