Jahrome Hughes- What a Lad

getting on now.

And I guess the other games are the Māori All-Star

Games where they're quite sort of unique experiences for me.

Yeah, no, they're ones I absolutely love too.

The only thing, it's a little bit hard, the timing of it, because it's just after pre-season and there's always a few niggles going around.

But yeah, I think my last one was 24, but going back in there, it's just...

Same as the Kiwis, but you learn a little bit more about your culture and the Maori culture.

And for myself, like I said, moving away, I didn't really get to indulge in it all.

So I think for myself, getting back into that space and, you know, going through, you know, different wayatars and stuff.

um you know learning different huckers and meanings about um you know the songs and the huckers it's it's special for me because i didn't really i missed out a lot of that by moving over to australia and i think that's a good thing too like they you know the the malty team is like that too they they know a lot of the boys that play you know they got malty heritage but they might not know a lot about their yeah you know about their heritage family

anything uh a couple of boys do

yeah but I think you know there's a lot of boys that don't they're on the opposite side as well so I think it's a you know great learning experience and it's more than the game I think you know the game's at the end of it but You know, especially for us, you know, we really enjoy the weekend.

I know the indigenous boys and girls do as well.

So, yeah, hopefully

I get a couple more games before I retire.

You must get pretty close with a lot of the players that you play with week in, week out because experiences with the All-Stars, Kiwis, all go back to different clubs.

Yeah, yeah.

Nah, it's good.

It's, I think, you know, the bond that we've, you know, I've created with a lot of these boys, especially in both Maldives and Kiwi camps, it's pretty special.

Yeah.

It's hard to explain.

It's a little bit different, you know what I mean? Like,

just because you got that, I don't know, but that connection's a bit

deeper.

And it's just, it's cool to, you know, become really close and just see their journeys, watch their journey.

getting on now.

And I guess the other games are the Māori All-Star

Games where they're quite sort of unique experiences for me.

Yeah, no, they're ones I absolutely love too.

The only thing, it's a little bit hard, the timing of it, because it's just after pre-season and there's always a few niggles going around.

But yeah, I think my last one was 24, but going back in there, it's just...

Same as the Kiwis, but you learn a little bit more about your culture and the Maori culture.

And for myself, like I said, moving away, I didn't really get to indulge in it all.

So I think for myself, getting back into that space and, you know, going through, you know, different wayatars and stuff.

um you know learning different huckers and meanings about um you know the songs and the huckers it's it's special for me because i didn't really i missed out a lot of that by moving over to australia and i think that's a good thing too like they you know the the malty team is like that too they they know a lot of the boys that play you know they got malty heritage but they might not know a lot about their yeah you know about their heritage family

anything uh a couple of boys do

yeah but I think you know there's a lot of boys that don't they're on the opposite side as well so I think it's a you know great learning experience and it's more than the game I think you know the game's at the end of it but You know, especially for us, you know, we really enjoy the weekend.

I know the indigenous boys and girls do as well.

So, yeah, hopefully

I get a couple more games before I retire.

You must get pretty close with a lot of the players that you play with week in, week out because experiences with the All-Stars, Kiwis, all go back to different clubs.

Yeah, yeah.

Nah, it's good.

It's, I think, you know, the bond that we've, you know, I've created with a lot of these boys, especially in both Maldives and Kiwi camps, it's pretty special.

Yeah.

It's hard to explain.

It's a little bit different, you know what I mean? Like,

just because you got that, I don't know, but that connection's a bit

deeper.

And it's just, it's cool to, you know, become really close and just see their journeys, watch their journey.