Latrell Mitchell credits Michael Maguire for NSW Blues star turn [Video]

“I thought ‘I’m ready to go. I’m hungry’. I’ve always been hungry, but it’s always been about reigniting that. It’s my own fault. It’s my own doing. It is what it is now. Bygones be bygones.“

Downing a can of beer in the company of his partner in a budding bromance, Jarome Luai, Mitchell begins to question his own reluctance to play in the opening game of the Origin series.

The South Sydney superstar was at his destructive and brilliant best in the series-levelling win at the ‘G’. He began to reflect on his meeting with Maguire, in whom Mitchell confided when the pair met just over a fortnight ago.

He told Maguire that he wanted to play in an environment where he felt people had his back. The coach assured him that he would. That he would …