Seymour keeps the faith for Warriors
Warriors half Brett Seymour is hoping his season of redemption hasn't come to a sudden end.
Seymour and his teammates have to sweat out the remainder of the weekend with their finals fate hanging on the outcome of three other matches following their 28-16 loss to the Titans on Friday night.
While not as spectacular as another rugby league bad boy Todd Carney's resurrection, which earned him the Dally M player of the year last week, Seymour has collected the pieces of a shattered career following turbulent stints with Brisbane and Cronulla to be playing some impressive football for the Warriors.
The young player who was anointed Allan Langer's successor under Wayne Bennett at the Broncos, Seymour has had a tough time pulling himself together but an alcohol ban and a realisation that there are probably no more chances left, have helped turn his fortunes around.
Seymour lost Friday night's clash on points to Titans No.7 Scott Prince but as usual he was busy organising his big forwards and looking for holes.
"Obviously we didn't help ourselves with the errors and the refereeing was a bit touch and go at times," said the Mackay-born Seymour who turns 26 later this month.
"That's the joy teams get playing at home but we didn't really give ourselves a chance with some silly errors which we haven't been doing. It's a bit of wake-up call if we get another chance.
"I thought we fought back well after half time after being a bit startled there at the back-end of the first half. It took the break for us to regroup so that's a positive for us.
"They're a quality side and we made eight or 10 errors and defended about two of them which is not what we've been doing lately.
"We haven't really leaked any points, but this week we have. It was a bad time for that happen but if we get another chance, I'm sure the boys will learn from it.
Seymour wasn't taking anything for granted but was hoping other teams did the Warriors a favour over the weekend to keep them alive.
"We'll prepare like we're playing (next week) but the competition is so open, anything can happen.
"Apart from the Dragons game, the other two are a lottery."
Seymour said the players would "sit tight" and watch how things unfolded over the weekend.
"We're not down in the dumps, we know what we did wrong and hopefully we'll get another crack at it and do it right next time.
Seymour, who like Roosters five-eighth Todd Carney has resurrected his playing career this season after a few troubled years, said he was unlikely to watch the games that will decided the Warriors fate over the weekend.
"I might give them a miss actually and take my mind off it," he said.
"I've been through enough of that in my time, so I'll just sit back and see what happens."
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