Elliot Minchella reveals how talking can help to end Hull KR’s Cup -Driedte

Elliot Minchella believes that the setting up of matter Hull KR can push to their first major trophy in 40 years, and the help of an ‘aunt’.

The Robber Skipper has become a large part of their urge for silverware, both in Challenge Cup and Super League.

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Willie Peters’ table toppers go tomorrow for what the first stage of a double can be and get the trophy for the first time since 1980.

While arms, legs and body throw and kick the ball while they cut through it WarringtonMuch of what happens is in the mind.

And Minchella believes that the way his boss has brought the concept of Mindfulness in his side, is dividends.

After she lay on a Tenerife beach that stared at the stars when it was first introduced, some players now write magazines while the Loose Forward believes it is good to talk.

But he admitted: “To be honest, some of us to start with were like:” What is this? Never heard of this before. “

“As men and professionals, you stay with what you know and when someone challenges you or think of something new thing, it is very easy to say:” I’m not going to do that because that is not what I normally do. “

“But you brush your ego aside and say,” Do you know what? I will jump in and try something, “and it really works. It really works for me as an individual and I know the boys think the same thing.

“You can make it as deep as you want and it is about manifesting what you are going to do, to think about it, to be grateful for where you are. That is in various forms. You can speak a journal, you can speak out loud, you can think.

“I like to talk to people. I like to sit and talk and get things off my chest, things in the universe, I think, and talk to people.

“That is not predictions, but being grateful for what I have. We have difficult days, but these are not really tough days. Looked for days when you are on the tools and you are scary. This is a privilege.”

Hull KR are favorites for Wembley Glory Tomorrow (Sat). If it happens, you can bet that Minchella, 29, will make a lot of noise.

But although he would like to have everything about success, it would be built on what he is talking about to Rovers’ player -welfare manager Sue Thompson.

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And what she sometimes says to him.

He added: “I call her aunt Sue, so she really is a family member for me.

“I speak with her every week, just get things off my chest, or even have a coffee with her and just have a chat.

“It just makes big problems that you think you have in your mind, they are really only small and SUE puts things in perspective.

“I am really honest with her and she is really honest with me, which I appreciate from Sue.

“Nobody wants to talk to someone you just tell what you want to hear. Sue is great because she doesn’t pull.

‘She is sometimes very abrupt, but she has to get to know me, I know her for six years now, so she knows how I take things and what I have to hear sometimes.

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“Likewise, some of the other players probably need a little more arm around them, or a bit of a maternal figure.

“It just makes us, with all our worries, just concentrate at stake, what happens on the field and she is in every day.

“When I say,” I am nervous, “she would have done me well. I would have that conversation with her.”

In four decades, Minchella hopes to be the first Hull KR captain to lift a trophy -if that happens, he will inflict misery to a guy he used as a Bradford fan, Warrington coach Sam Burgess.

He said to Sunsport: ‘He is probably one of the best attackers ever in the game. His name himself says it all. Whatever I say would not do justice to him.

“He had the instinct to beat a defender, but then he could run over someone. He did everything, he had everything.

“I have enormous respect for him, as a player, but now also as a coach.”