Certainly at this stage, all he has to do is just play the appropriate football during the Super 14 and I'll certainly back him to have a very good (competition).

I'm not sure he left to play fullback. He could have stayed with us and contended for a fullback or wing place.

It's up to us to go out and play 60 minutes of the kind of football that I think this football team is capable of playing. . . . They've got some great players, but I think we've got some great players, too.

We're gonna play fast, we're gonna play physical, we're gonna play furious, and we're gonna play contact football.

I'm here to play football.

There are still people around here who think he should have stuck with football, but I resent the hell out of it. His passion is basketball.