A first Ashes series for almost 20 years is a big occasion and Hull KR head coach Willie Peters – who will be part of the Kangaroos’ backroom team for the series – believes Lewis’ performance on the Grand Final stage was a pivotal moment in his career.<\/p>\n
“I said out there that Mikey Lewis has arrived and what I meant was, that was a big moment,” Peters told BBC Radio Humberside.<\/p>\n
“It doesn’t get bigger than a Grand Final and he owned that first half.<\/p>\n
“He cops a lot but it just shows the type of player we’ve got, who he is and what he’s about.<\/p>\n
“He’s had massive games this year but in terms of Grand Finals he was ready for that and he stood up and I’m so proud given what he has to cop.<\/p>\n
“But he’s grown so much and he was a difference.”<\/p>\n
Salford Red Devils boss Paul Rowley thinks that despite a crowded line-up of players bidding to start, Lewis has convincingly made his case.<\/p>\n
“Mikey Lewis is shouting from the rooftops ‘pick me’, or ‘don’t pick me if you dare’,” Rowley told BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n
“He’s saying he can do it, he’s a big player and he’s doing it on the big stage.<\/p>\n
“He was deservedly man of the match, he was fantastic.<\/p>\n
“Mikey Lewis has got to be in there somewhere, but it’s hard to squeeze all these good players in – there are only a few positions for quite a few players.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A first Ashes series for almost 20 years is a big occasion and Hull KR head coach Willie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-193792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}