Kerevi, 25, said Thorn’s hard line on culture and standards sat well with him, but hoped he could lighten the coach’s load by setting the tone himself.
“In the past I wouldn’t say it wasn’t policed well, but sometimes we’d let standards drop and wouldn’t pick it up as a playing group,” he said.
“I want us to be player-driven, guys picking up on each other on certain things.”
Good noise from Kerevi here, but will have to wait and see if it is backed up with action. Maintaining standards is hard and requires mental discipline, we can all relate to it in our own personal lives I guess.
I feel a bit for some of these guys, who would easily be pulled into a bubble of semi fame, popularity with women etc on nights out. It would be easy to have it get to your head and turn into a bit of a lazy, partying young bloke. We've all been there.
I think it's interesting that a lot of Reds unwanted seem to do so well in Canberra etc. I think it's actually partly the geography and culture of Canberra - it would be easier to be a pro athlete and concentrate hard on the team because there's just less to do. Compare that to Brisbane where half the Reds end up at Fridays and The Vic after a game etc, you can see why it would be easy to slide into bad habits. Hopefully the whole playing group can go hard at being professionals this year
