Perilous Super League begins are threatening to develop into second nature for Castleford’s Jack Broadbent as he prepares to attract on current expertise in a bid to tug his new membership out of the relegation mire.
Twelve months in the past the extremely rated 22-year-old was pressured to observe from the sidelines as his Leeds profession unravelled, the membership’s depressing begin to the marketing campaign mirrored by his frustration with failing to carry down a daily beginning slot.
Having finally rallied to achieve the Grand Final, Broadbent’s outdated membership will present an admirable blueprint after they go to the Mend-a-Hose Jungle on Thursday to search out the hosts nonetheless pointless after 4 video games and having already parted firm with head coach Lee Radford.
Radford’s former assistant Andy Last will proceed to guide the facet on a brief foundation however the blows preserve coming, with winger Jake Mamo abruptly saying this week that he has retired from the game with quick impact.
Despite the mounting points, Broadbent says he has no regrets about making the change, and stays satisfied he might help stop historical past repeating itself, beginning with the go to of the membership with whom he first signed full-time phrases in 2019.
“I feel like as a team we just need to get out of that rut we’re in, and I can look back at last year’s experience, and even the year before that when we didn’t have the best of starts, to help fight through it,” mentioned Broadbent.
“I don’t feel like this is a team that is at the bottom of the table. Having no points obviously means that’s where we sit, but we just need to build up the confidence. We are an experienced squad and all it takes one result to change our mindset.
“I feel like this move has really benefited me personally, and I 100 per cent back my decision to come here. It feels like the next step that I needed to take.”
Broadbent, who’s beginning his second yr of a media research diploma at Leeds Beckett University, mentioned scholar life helped ease the strain of the final marketing campaign, when he made solely 5 appearances for the Rhinos, together with his closing sport coinciding with Rohan Smith’s debut as coach at Salford in May.
“I stuck my head more into my uni work last year and I got some pretty decent results, so it was important to have that life balance, and something else to take my mind off things when my rugby was not going so well,” added Broadbent.
“But I’d signed pretty early with Cas so I knew my future was safe. I was confident that once I was playing week in, week out I’d be back to my best.
“I was at Leeds for a long time and I have fond memories. Obviously I want to play well against my old club, but we are under a lot of pressure as a team at the moment, so I’m just trying it focus as if it is any other game.”
