Watch every second of Super Rugby Pacific live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nHe backed this up with player of the match in the First Nations Pasifika match, becoming the first since Israel Folau in 2013 to pick up the honour in a losing effort.<\/p>\n
It left the 29-year-old the talk of the touring media pack, eager to pick up where he left off in Super Rugby Pacific.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like I showed I could play to a very high level\u00a0and to the highest level,\u201d he reflected to Rugby.com.au.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just got to make sure that I’m consistent\u00a0across the board and I’m doing it week in week out\u00a0instead of just doing it one week\u00a0and then having two weeks off.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor myself, I’ve just got to find my strengths,\u00a0which are probably\u00a0the defensive side of the ball and the physical side, making sure that I’m getting the ball back\u00a0for the boys and that the attack flows from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gamble is taking plenty of lessons out of the Lions’ experience, especially his week in the <\/p>\n
First Nations Pasifika camp, which came the closest to upsetting the Lions in all the non-Test tour matches.<\/p>\n
\u201cI look back, and it was probably the funnest week I’ve had in my rugby career, having that week down in Melbourne with all the boys and learning about everyone’s cultures, where everyone began their journey and the different levels of hardship that everyone went through,\u201d he reflects.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was actually very, very powerful and obviously we didn’t get the result,\u00a0but it was a very fun game to be part of\u2026\u00a0I think at the end of the day, look, we’ve got to remember where we’ve come from, and we all started as little kids throwing the ball around for fun, and we enjoyed that aspect.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, as you get older and you aspire to be professional, sometimes you forget about that, and sometimes you’re a bit hard on yourself, and you forget about all the fun parts of rugby.\u201d<\/p>\n
The flanker is motivated to bring the Waratahs back to the finals after a promising start fell away towards the end of the season.<\/p>\n
Dan McKellar\u2019s side started the year with three straight wins; however, they lost seven out of their last nine to finish in eighth.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can really see in training\u00a0that it’s really gelling well,\u00a0and obviously the new boys that have come in this year\u00a0have only had experience and skills,\u00a0so yeah, very positive signs so far,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo much experience coming back\u00a0and it’s already shown so far during training,\u00a0those boys have come in\u00a0and have been leading from the front\u00a0and really driving the whole squad to be at our best and driving high standards.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can really notice it around training\u00a0and, you know, when it comes to game time,\u00a0I know that’ll be very big to kind of fall back on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NSW Waratahs flanker Charlie Gamble is motivated to prove his heroic performance against the British & Irish Lions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,32951,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-416378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nsw-waratahs","11":"tag-rugby","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416378","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=416378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}