Watch every second of the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nThe lock missed the two pre-season trials after a scuffle with Angus Scott-Young saw the former Reds’ eye socket fractured amid several punches thrown.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s been a tough month. Everyone has handled the situation really well I regret that it happened\u00a0and it shouldn’t have happened,” Amatosero said after the win<\/p>\n
\u201cOur trainings are geared, especially on a Friday, to take us to that level so I\u2019ve got to be better in getting there and not going over it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve all moved past it\u2026[Angus and I] sorted that out and it\u2019s done and dusted.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the suspension, Amatosero was prohibited from Waratahs HQ, working out in the early mornings at nearby Snape Park as the lock struggled with the fallout and being away from the group.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was training on my own. Some of the starts were 5:30 am or 6 am, and I do my field session and then head to the gym at Bondi Junction,” he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was so tough. My biggest thing is the boys and team, and being away from them, seeing how it affected the team really hurt.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe boys moved on quickly, we all moved on quickly, and I\u00a0think we’re all better off for it. We\u2019ve come together stronger, and I’m just so happy to be back, and I definitely miss the boys a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amatosero knows he will be a target for future teams, starting with the Fijian Drua on Friday. The lock has had past run-ins with the Drua, who were furious at an incident during a maul last year that went unpunished.<\/p>\n
But the Sydney-born lock wants to bring success to the Waratahs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat’s how it’s been for my entire footy career, just because I’ve been that physical player that most teams come looking for that anyway, regardless of what’s happened, nothing’s really changed,” he said on the added scrutiny.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor as long as I\u2019ve been playing, it\u2019s been like that, so it\u2019s getting easier for me [to handle].<\/p>\n
\u201c..Being Sydney-born and raised, you can feel the frustration with a lot of the fan base and the community and I think everyone is getting behind us and feeling what we\u2019re feeling about. We\u2019ve got something good this year and this season and it\u2019s exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NSW Waratahs lock Miles Amatosero has expressed his regret at a training incident that saw him suspended, eager…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,32951,760,85,48013],"class_list":["post-480905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nsw-waratahs","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-super-rugby-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480905","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=480905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}