Record-breaker Ryan Hall reflects on his return to Leeds Rhinos, six years after he last played for the club.
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00:00I don't know, I haven't put it on yet. I haven't put my shirt on yet, I will. I don't know how I'll feel on the first game, but that will take care of itself I suppose.
00:11Yeah, it was pretty funny coming in, first day of training, coming back into Kirkstall Training Ground.
00:17It felt a bit weird, because I've been in before over the last six years.
00:24Well, I was not a Leafs player, so I felt like, ooh, I don't know if I'm meant to be here, type of thing.
00:29But once the first day was out of the way, the weirdness, it feels like I'm back at home now.
00:33I've got my old spot in my changing room, you know what I used to have for 12 years before.
00:39I'm in the same locker that I've always had, so I've got them too. I feel right at home, so that's nice.
00:44Did you have to fight for them, or were they presented to you?
00:47I was expecting a fight, because normally, wherever your spot is in a changing room, that doesn't change.
00:56I was fully expecting that spot to be taken, but when I walked in, I was like, right, what's the deal?
01:03Because going back 19 years ago, when I first walked into the first team changing room down at Kirkstall,
01:08I put my bag down, unbeknownst to me, it was, keep seeing your spot.
01:11And that got thrown out of the way, and says you're not sitting there.
01:14So I was expecting one of them, like I put my bag down at the wrong spot, it might get lobbed into the showers or something.
01:19So I was asking, what's the deal? But they said, sit where you want.
01:23So that's where I sat. I took my old locker back, and yeah, I feel right at home.