As a star of the English game, both at club and Test level, Travis had plenty of games under her belt before taking to the field in the NRLW.<\/p>\n
However, the quality of the pitches, the conditioning of the players and the depth of the junior pathways all added up to a faster, leaner game down under.<\/p>\n
“It was a bit of a shock when I first started playing, especially when I moved into the middle, you’re in there and you’re working hard and ruck speed is really important,” Travis said.<\/p>\n
“Everybody’s quite skilful as well; even the middle forwards are skilful, and everybody can chuck a good ball around.<\/p>\n
“Equally, it’s just rugby and it’s just tough. Running at me or running at one of them, it felt the same. When you’re a forward and that’s what you do – it’s a bit different for the backs, and I can’t comment on that – as a forward you just run hard and you tackle hard, and that’s what I tried to do.”<\/p>\n
What was refreshing, and sometimes sobering for Travis, was being able to see the games on TV, every week, and with the full broadcast treatment.<\/p>\n
“It’s broadcast and shown really well, and that opportunity to watch yourself back constantly and to get your stats back really quick was like, ‘Woah! That’s good!’,” she said.<\/p>\n
“You can see where you’re going wrong, but it’s also quite scary because you can think ‘Oh, I’ve had a really bad game’ when you see your stats are low.<\/p>\n
“There’s no waiting till the dust settles on a Monday morning, that was hard; but such a good, rewarding thing as well that you can watch yourself back.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a star of the English game, both at club and Test level, Travis had plenty of games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-588666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588666","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=588666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}