Their season may have just ended, but promising Cowboys
rookie Ethan Lowe says he is loving his time in Townsville and is looking
forward to building on a promising debut season in 2015.
Lowe was a late call-up to what had been an unchanged
Cowboys line-up in an unbeaten month after Newcastle-bound back-rower Tariq
Sims was suspended.
Lowe said he didn't feel under any pressure to try and
replicate what Sims brings to the side, saying the coaching staff were clear
with what they wanted from him.
"I got told what to do – I know my job, I know my role
in the team, I was confident I could do it," Lowe told NRL.com in the
sheds after the game.
"I thought I did it pretty well. We're all told what
our role is, you get told during the week 'this is what we want you to do'. The
first 25 we didn't really do what we wanted to do, then after that we got stuck
in, were able to turn it a bit," he said of the team's amazing comeback
from 30-0 to 30-all.
Lowe is contracted to the Cowboys until the end of 2015.
"I've got another pre-season up here, another year then
see what happens after that, but I'm loving it up here," he said.
"There's been a couple of games I wasn't really happy
with but all in all I think I've done all right, I've built a platform for next
year so hopefully I can have a big pre season and build on that and try and
come back better next year."
Lowe said he has benefited from the leadership of some of
the side's more experienced forwards, and plenty of direction from the halves.
"We've got a great back rower here in Coops [Gavin
Cooper], I'm always happy to have a talk to him, he's always happy to give me
some advice, either defensively or in attack, he's great. We've got some of the
best halves in the world here in Robbie [Lui] and Johnno [Thurston] and it
makes my job a lot easier running off those two.
"JT's a great leader, he's a great captain, same with
Thumper [Matt Scott] – he leads from the front, he does all that hard work for
us. They're great captains."
He said it wasn't about trying to replicate what any of the
others produced so much as focusing on his own skill set.
"I just try and do my best, I've got my own sort of
skills I know I can do and that's what I try and do is just my job to the best
of my abilities – but it's good learning of Coops and people like that, we've
got some great people here."
