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Message: [QUOTE="McHunt, post: 3587629, member: 9853"] [I][B]Matt Ballin:[/B][/I] [INDENT=2]"The door is certainly open for Te Kura, along with Willison, it's up to those boys to take their opportunity. Our club is based on working hard and getting an opportunity. Kevin Walters is big on competing, and if those guys want to push for a spot in the side, they will be right up there. We've been talking to Benny about keeping it really simple. He is a big body. He just wants to be playing good minutes at the moment and get his fitness up and make his tackles. If he runs the ball he is very damaging, so we just want him to run hard, and if the offload comes off the back of that, it comes."[/INDENT] [INDENT=2]"He was more of an edge back-rower, but he has filled out and is obviously going to end up in the middle. For us he was more damaging on the edge. Blokes would come to tackle him and he would reach over them and get the offload away."[/INDENT] [I]Schoolboy coach and former Broncos hooker [B]Michael Roberts:[/B][/I] [INDENT=2]"At school Ben was aggressive. One of the key things I liked about him was the mongrel in him. It made me think he might kick on. The really big guys are a target and he will have a target on his head, but he is tough enough to handle it in the middle both physically and mentally. Ben has done well since leaving school and he has been a good person and worked hard. He has done all the little things well and embraced all the values that we certainly push at our school."[/INDENT] [I][B]Dave Porter[/B], who coached Te Kura in Year 10:[/I] [INDENT=2]"Ben was head and shoulders above everyone else in height, always. You would look up and see this big grin ... and below that would be the heads of the other boys."[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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