His skill may not improve but just learning from experience of playing at that level, you would think physically he would mature.

He’s a good listener and he’s fitted in really well.

It’s an experience thing. He’s got a great set of skills and physically he’s got everything but he’s still 20 years of age. His natural instinct is to stay on his feet and offload the...

Easily, he was close to our best, I thought. He just did the simple things that he’s good at really well and repeatedly. That’s what we need him doing, being really solid in the middle.

When he does play for us he’ll be coming off the bench for 20 minutes and that’s a big step up to playing 80 minutes in a Test match.

Hopefully they’ll look after him while he’s in camp because he’s on a fairly modified program for us and I’d hope they would carry that through.

We thought he might have been (a chance) but he trained during the week and he’s still in a fair degree of pain with it. I don’t imagine that will change.

It takes a bit longer for the bigger blokes to get their match fitness, but I reckon Willie will have a big year.

It’s frustrating overcoming it mentally (but) he’s just got to live with it.