Sharks star Nicho Hynes admits it took him your entire low season to recover from Cronulla’s heartbreaking qualifying finals loss final yr, however says he’s put that sport behind him and is totally targeted on exorcising some demons this weekend.
The Sharks completed second on the ladder final yr and would have gone straight by way of to the preliminary closing had they overwhelmed the Cowboys at house.
Instead, they went down 32-30 in extra-time after former Shark Valentine Holmes potted a two-point subject aim after Hynes missed an earlier try that may have put his facet in entrance.
The Sharks had been soundly overwhelmed the next week to be bundled out in straight units, however Hynes says it took him months to recover from the opening defeat.
“I held onto that Cowboys game for a long time,” stated Hynes, who went on to win the Dally M Medal a couple of weeks later.
“The Rabbitohs game, we weren’t really in it at all, but that Cowboys game was something I held onto for the whole off-season.
“I’m not hanging onto it now. It is what it is and you can’t change that. I’ll learn from those experiences, but you’ve just got to look forward now and that’s the Roosters.”
That was the primary little bit of on-field adversity that Hynes had skilled, which is why he put issues in place to make sure he didn’t spend weeks dwelling on issues that occurred ages in the past.
“I’m pretty open in saying that I hired a mindset guy who helped me with those sorts of things,” he stated.
“He puts things in place every day to make sure I’m not sitting there thinking about things I don’t need to be thinking about.
“I’ve got my routines and I’ve got certain things I do in different situations that I’m faced with – I won’t give them away – but that’s just how I deal with it.
“I don’t hang onto things too long anymore. I used to hang onto it for a few days, but now I give myself a couple of hours after a loss or after a crappy decision that didn’t go my way and then I move on because that’s life.”
Hynes and the Sharks will head into Saturday’s elimination closing towards the Roosters with the ghosts of 2022 prone to be introduced up in all places they flip, however the playmaker says it’s pointless speaking in regards to the previous.
“It’s a whole year ago and we’re a completely different team,” he stated.
“We’ve worked hard to turn our wrongs into rights. If we’re sitting here thinking about last year then we’re not doing this team or the game justice because we need to worry about what’s in front of us this year.
“We played a completely different team in the finals last year. We didn’t play the Roosters, and they’ve got some big-game players. Looking back right now isn’t important to us, what’s important is tomorrow and training really hard.”
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