\u2018I felt like I played pretty well, but just didn\u2019t get the opportunity.\u2019<\/p>\n
Jonah Glover on his time at the Dragons<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully, next year I\u2019ll be able to make a stand and make my NRL debut.\u201d<\/p>\n
Glover will compete with Jamie Humphreys, Ashton Ward, and Bud Sullivan for the right to partner Cody Walker in the halves after signing a two-year deal. The chance to play alongside Walker, and be coached by Wayne Bennett, was too good an opportunity to pass up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m pretty excited,\u201d Glover said. \u201c[Bennett] was actually a pretty big factor because obviously, I\u2019m from Queensland and he was coaching the Queensland side.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was like, \u2018Man, I would love to be coached by him\u2019 and as soon as I heard that it was possible to go to the Rabbitohs, I was like \u2018Where do I sign?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
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With 48 games of reserve grade experience, the 22-year-old believes he will be ready if handed the No.7 jersey and a first-grade debut when the Souths open their campaign against the Dolphins at Suncorp Stadium. \u201cYeah, 100 per cent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlaying so many Cup games, you get an understanding of what it\u2019s like playing against men, you can continue to grow and get better.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a bit of a footy nerd, so I watch a lot of NRL, and even watching some players in the NRL, I feel like I can do what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, I haven\u2019t been tested yet, but when I get the chance I\u2019ll be ready.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of his first opportunities to impress will be in the traditional Charity Shield pre-season trial against his former club.<\/p>\n
When Clint Gutherson first turned up at the Dragons, he made an immediate impression by winning a five-kilometre run up Mt Keira. The player hot on his heels was Glover.<\/p>\n
If Glover can impress Bennett with his fitness and skill over the summer to earn an NRL debut, the Dragons may rue losing him.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo as long as I have a good pre-season and the coach likes me, then I should hopefully get a crack at sometime next year or round one,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
As to being randomly sounded out about modelling work, Glover said: \u201cHonestly, that\u2019s the first time in my whole life that\u2019s ever happened to me. I never really take photos of myself, so that was the first weird part. She came out of nowhere. We\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018I felt like I played pretty well, but just didn\u2019t get the opportunity.\u2019 Jonah Glover on his time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-281796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}