Argentina football tracksuit<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m really excited about my second year of rugby,\u201d he said. \u201cHopefully I can be a lot calmer in the mind, not be chasing and worrying about where I need to be and hesitating.<\/p>\n
“That\u2019s my theme this year \u2013 try to play a bit more freely and be in the right places.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite rumours of an early return to rugby league, Tuivasa-Sheck made it clear that he is still committed to rugby union and is looking forward to the upcoming Super Rugby Pacific season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really excited about my second year of rugby,\u201d he said. \u201cHopefully I can be a lot calmer in the mind, not be chasing and worrying about where I need to be and hesitating. That\u2019s my theme this year \u2013 try to play a bit more freely and be in the right places.\u201d<\/p>\n
The code hopper is far more prepared to stamp his authority on the Blues in his second season of Super Rugby Pacific.<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand more,\u201d he said. \u201cI can have three or four things to focus on and can put my groundwork into those specific things, whereas last year I was poking at everyone, \u2018bro, what do I need to work on?\u2019, linking up with Caleb [Clarke], with different people, trying to work on a million things. Now I have a year under my belt and I can focus on the three or four things that I feel are key for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although Tuivasa-Sheck only played for the opening 40 minutes, Blues head coach Leon MacDonald was happy with his player’s effort during that period.<\/p>\n
Good performance<\/h3>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s had feedback in and around that contact and tackle area, and I thought today he fronted there really well, and breaking away for that nice try shows he\u2019s got genuine pace,\u201d said MacDonald. \u201cEven watching him around the park, he\u2019s organising and bossing and starting to become that natural leader.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe feels like he understands the game now, whereas this time last year he was looking around trying to work out where he was supposed to stand. Some really good signs there early on.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck is keen to be in the All Blacks squad at this year’s World Cup in France and part of his plan to reach that goal was to play in the Blues’ first pre-season fixture of the season, against the Hurricanes in Auckland on Saturday. Although the Blues’ All Blacks players were allowed to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}