“Being a leader of this team, you just want to stay in the moment, stay present, and I think for me my mindset has just been to get the boys ready for this week and I haven’t really thought too far ahead.
“But probably after this week or next I will start to think about that stuff.”
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A costly defeat against the Brumbies last weekend is likely to deny the Hurricanes a place in the Trans-Tasman final.
The fourth-place Hurricanes look set to miss out on a place in the Trans-Tasman final, needing to beat the Reds and for other results to fall their way, after suffering a costly 12-10 defeat to the Brumbies in Canberra last weekend.