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Chapter 1: What are the Hurricanes' current strengths and recent performance?
Well the Hurricanes are going all right at the moment and it's great to welcome on to the show their center Billy Proctor. Billy thanks so much for joining us. Been a nice couple of days of getting the body back in place after a really good win on Friday.
Yeah it's nice to be in the position where we are in and you know we're lucky enough to get the eight day turnaround and have the weekend off to recover and look after our bodies after And yeah, after that quarterfinal on the weekend, so yeah, enjoyed the last couple of days. Yeah, just recovering and taking a bit of a breath and step back.
What was the team's sort of discussion as there's pretty much torrential rain all Friday? You guys have obviously attacked the house down, but the mindset and the skill execution seemed to not change. Was that always the case or did you just play it what you saw on the night?
a few discussions on Friday around our game and things that could change. And, you know, we had a meeting in the change room and talked about our kicking game and ways that, yeah, that we might have to play considering the weather. But once we got out there and And, you know, felt that it was good enough to throw the ball around and, you know, ball in hand wasn't actually too bad.
It was just quite windy and the rain stopped for the most part. So that just allowed us to play our game and do what we've been doing all season. And yeah, as I said, use the ball and go to the air when we needed to.
When you guys trained at Rugby League Park back in the day, you basically lived in those conditions. Now that you're up on the hut and you've got the ability to use an indoor facility too, are you still spending a lot of time outside in those conditions and it helps get you into that place?
We're definitely outside, still getting used to the weather. So the boys are still no strangers to the weather that Wellington provides, whether that be the rain and wind. But as you said, we're lucky enough to be able to go outside and get through our detail, which is nice. Our specs aren't out there freezing.
You talk about the detail. What is the balance between that for you guys and attack? Because it looks like there's a lot of instinct in the way you play and the way that the yellow jerseys sort of flood the space once there's sort of a chink in the defender's armor. Do you guys have a license and do you train that license to just play what you see?
Or is there a little bit more structure to it than what it looks like?
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Chapter 2: How does weather impact the Hurricanes' game strategy?
You know, they've put in structures and, I guess, the system that has allowed us to play like that. And, you know, obviously all the boys have bought into it and, you know, everyone sort of has an understanding of that as a full collective. And I think that's why, you know, we're able to jump in and out of it
When you look at you guys, everyone loves the tries scored. I think more impressive is the amount of tries that are stopped. Defensively, Corey Drain and I suppose your squad has been around for a long time. You sit in probably the hardest defensive position in rugby at centre. What is... the system as such there?
You know, everyone talks about Corey Jane outside in the way he played and, you know, some of the ways coached previously, but is that still the case?
Siege is a very detailed, you know, he puts a lot of work into our defense. And it's pretty similar to our attack around, you know, we've got our structures in place and we've all committed to it. A lot of talk around defense wins championships. And, you know, for the most part of the season, we've actually been pretty good.
And, you know, we try and match teams physically, but we try and give them, you know, the spots that we train all week to make it hard for them. for the attack, so previewing teams, he's awesome at that, and fine-tuning our own structure, so it doesn't really matter what teams bring, we're in a spot where we can solve their attack and stop it.
You're the least penalised team, so even though you run that rush defence and you're in the top three in terms of turnovers won, the discipline around those decisions at breakdown, but also when to fly off the line, seems to be a big factor of those systems.
off sides and you know little penalties like that where a controllable thing you know just you know take the extra step or whatever that is you know it's an it's an important part of our defense and then same thing he's given us the license to have a crack at the ball when when you think there's an opportunity and you know we're never always going to get it right so there's going to be penalties there but as long as um you know it's the right decision there's a opportunity to get it back if you do get a bit wrong we'll you know go and back our defense in a different area of the field
Is there a lot of communication on the run there though as well in terms from the outside in around reminding you to take that half step or maybe it's Cam Roygard saying that ruck's dead, leave it alone. It just seems like everyone seems to be on the same page and when you commit, you all commit, but it feels like there must be a lot of chat to just keep that in check.
There is a lot of talk on the run that's, you know, boys, you know, tired at times. So, yeah, whether that's from outside and taking a step if we see people, you know, pushing the limit or, you know, backing people to go for the ball. you know, the opportunity presents or a barge opportunity, whatever it may be.
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