Huddersfield captain Luke Yates “turns his brain off” to get through his monster workload but he'll be clued up this weekend.
The Australian prop is renowned for his huge tackling stints, once managing a whopping 62 in one game for London. Only Hull’s Danny Houghton has made more than his 412 in Super League this term. Now Yates, who is also Giants’ top metre maker, hopes to tackle Hull KR to a standstill in Saturday’s Challenge Cup semi-final.
The tireless forward, a beaten Wembley finalist with Salford in 2020, said: "I do love it in the middle. It gives you the opportunity to not even think. You just turn your brain off. It's weird - you start the game and then all of a sudden think ‘there’s half-time!' That’s when I play my best footy when I’m not taking notice of the clock. I just go, focused purely on the job at hand.”
