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Injured NRLW star Brooke Talataina makes her first foray into coaching this Friday, when the Wests Tigers ROAR U\/18\u2019s side takes on the U\/18 Knights in Newcastle.<\/p>\n
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Wests Tigers ROAR, the women\u2019s equivalent of the Wests Tigers Cubs program, helps ensure that some of the club\u2019s standout young talent remain connected to Wests Tigers and the Pathways program, even after junior representative competitions have concluded.<\/p>\n
Still in recovery from a serious knee injury, Talataina takes the Head Coaching reigns, with the side spending valuable time interacting with the NRLW squad prior to the match and over the course of the weekend.<\/p>\n
The New Zealand international, 21, is keen to help the teenage talents on their development journeys.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aI think the ROAR program helps build up the girls as players and develop them, but this experience will also show them the standards of what it is to be an NRLW player,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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\u201c\u200a\u200aI think it’s really important they see the things that happen behind the scenes, the hard work, and just getting them into the environment of \u200aknowing how to better themselves as players, on and off the field.<\/p>\n
In undertaking her first experience into coaching, Talataina now sees the game from a different perspective and believes it could be the road she chooses to go down when her playing career concludes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s so different to how it is for us players.<\/p>\n
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As players, we just train and play but there’s so much that happens behind the scenes.<\/p>\n
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\u201cSeeing how coaching can be is an eye-opener for me but I\u2019m hoping that as the years go on, I’ll be able to understand a bit more, footy-wise, while I\u2019m playing and then be able to get into coaching properly.\u201d<\/p>\n
In describing her coaching style, Brooke explains that while she can be firm at times, she wants her players to know that she\u2019s there for them if they need her.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want them to enjoy their footy and I hopefully make it a really good environment for them to be themselves, but you\u2019ve also got to be firm in certain ways so that they don’t take it for granted.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aI also really do care about how I come across to the players, because I’m so big on creating those relationships.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aI think I’m pretty firm in certain ways, but I’m also there for the girls.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wests Tigers U\/18 ROAR squad vs Knights<\/p>\n
Rhiannon Bonner\u00a0
\nIsabel McMenemy
\nModesty Tafeuni
\nLusinita Taviliniu
\nMele-Kyannah Toga
\nMia Tonga
\nAgnews (Jewel) Faaui
\nMay Fuimaono
\nPaige Attard
\nFa’alagilagi Faimasui Brown
\nSienna Robertson
\nAnnelise Hall
\nAngel Schaafhausen-Mino
\nDawn Tui
\nAliana (Bubbles) Fasavalu-Fa’amausili
\nAlavina Tu’ifua
\nRyah Mokoai
\nOlivia Saley<\/p>\n
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