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Message: [QUOTE="McHunt, post: 3203520, member: 9853"] [COLOR=rgb(204, 204, 204)][I]Here is what [B]Jack Bird[/B] told the[/I][/COLOR][B][COLOR=rgb(204, 204, 204)][I] [B]Daily Telegraph[/B]:[/I][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=rgb(204, 204, 204)] “At the end, I felt like a burden there. Like I was just there for the sake of it. I felt like they weren’t putting their time and effort into me, my rehab. I felt like I was just another number ... they were pushing me to the side, they didn’t care about me." “So in the end, I knew if I wanted to get back to my best I had to move. Go to someone who was willing to put their time and effort into me getting back to my best. When Wayne left, everything went south. If he wasn’t coach, I wouldn’t have went there. I would’ve gone somewhere else or stayed at Cronulla. I got along with all the (Broncos) boys, they were a great bunch. And I got along with Seibs as well … but I went up there for Wayne.” “Mentally, I went through some really tough times. I went up there to play footy and I wasn’t. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy footy, but the injuries were really weighing me down.” “I try not to let people’s opinions get the better of me,” Bird said. “But when I got injured, it was tough. There’s all these people that start talking shit about you and so, you want to go out and prove them wrong. But then you get another injury and it starts all over again. And that pressure, it was weighing me down. I wasn’t happy while also trying to impress people you don’t even care about. But then, you fail. You feel like a failure in your life.” “This is the first time I’ve enjoyed footy training in three years. The pressure that was on my shoulders, I really feel like it’s fallen away. I don’t have to try and impress anyone now. There is no one trying to bring me down, no head noise, it’s just me. And being back with family and friends, close to what I’m used to … that’s what I need to be happy.” “It (left knee) doesn’t swell up and doesn’t hurt when I run. There is still a little bit of soreness where they took out the tendon and a little bit of bone, but that’s normal. And if I keep training right, it will eventually go away. So the knee is feeling good – when I run and stuff now there are now dramas — I just need to get that confidence back. It’s just bad luck. Which is why I’ve got no doubt I’ll get back to 100 per cent.”[COLOR=rgb(204, 204, 204)][/COLOR] "Eventually I want to find a spot, but it really depends on what happens with my body over the next couple of years. If I get bigger, then backrow might be best. But if I can slim down, get fast again, then it might be back into the centres or five-eighth. A lot of people might think they do — but they don’t — and there is no doubt in my mind that I still have the ability there. It may not happen straight away, but I know I’ll be back.” McHunt[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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