Phil Gould

He's just genetically not there at the moment and he's had a couple of injuries, hamstring injuries, and we're working really hard to get it back.

Even then, I still think he's got a lot of pathways football to play before he's going to be ready to be thrown into NRL.

I don't want to rush him in simply because we have an urgent need and put him in there before he's ready.

And I speak to him and his parents about this a lot, about the pathways program that he's got to be on.

In the end, Mitchell Woods will tell us when he's ready to play NRL, if he's ready to play NRL at some time, but...

Right at the moment, he hasn't played enough football and he hasn't trained enough at the moment to be even considered likely for this year right at the moment.

Now, if he comes back and astounds us in the next few months, but we need to give him that.

He's on contract for next year and his contract depicts a player that we thought would be playing in NRL by that time.

We need to get him ready and get him ready to play.

And that's what we're working on doing at the moment.

And I'm assuming that play is as our seven.

Well, that's his position, yeah.

That's his seven.

He's a seven going forward.

So it's who's on first, what's on second.

I don't know who's on third.

You keep trying to shuffle the...

I understand what people are saying, but we've got to have options.

Yeah, of course.

Every club's got to have options.