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“If you keep trying and keep working at your game and get better and better at the things you need improving on, you never know when the door is going to open. We don’t have to sell that message much now do we, there’s proof with it, particularly in the tight forwards,” he said.

Foster said he had plenty of messages from old teammates who were tight forwards because they got excited when older players got selected because they knew it took time for tight forwards to get things right particularly.

“There’s some great messages but I think the powerful one is it’s more about those players who, through some adversity have kept the dream alive and done really, really well,” he said.

Foster offered sustenance to those dreams by saying the selectors were looking at the Mitre 10 Cup this year because there would be chances available and plenty of motivation for players to perform and especially with a five-game end of year tour to look forward to.