NSW Waratahs winger Triston Reilly is ready to do what he keeps doing best and make a spot in the back three his own.
Reilly was sensational in the win over the ACT Brumbies, scoring a sensational chip-and-chase individual try in the five-point victory.
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The 26-year-old started the season out of the squad, before working his way onto the bench and into the starting side amid injuries.
It was the exact same situation as last year, with Reilly finishing the starter as the likes of Max Jorgensen and Mark Nawaqanitawase found themselves fighting for position.
With Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii, Darby Lancaster and Andrew Kellaway in Daceyville,the mission remains the same as Reilly told Rugby.com.au before the start of the season.
“I know I can do it,” Reilly said.
“This year I’ve tried to take that into pre-season, just take every opportunity as it comes. We've obviously got a lot of good outside backs here now this year so it's kept everyone on their toes so hopefully throughout the season whenever the opportunity comes or rises I'm ready to go.
“It's healthy competition and every team strives to have that and I feel like we got that this year and every position is up for grabs and we're all working hard to be there
“You've just got to stay ready and never know when the opportunity is going to come, and hopefully, when it does come, you don't give it up.”
Reilly sat down after his heroics against the Brumbies to reflect on the importance of the win, feeling the personal nature of the rivalry and the need to break the winning streak.
“Dan made a statement at the start of the week we had to really grind this game out and break the streak," he explained.
“It was all out on social media so we took it really personal. We had to get over our opposite number and really do a job tonight to get the win.
“Dan made us aware of that 13-0 streak and knew we had to bounce back from last week. We weren't at our standard last week against the Reds and we knew we had to turn it around at home this week.
“I guess we did take it personal this week and everyone just had to do their job and I thought we did that for the 80 minutes this week."
It puts Reilly in conversations for a call-up for the Lions tour, whether it'd be starting for the Waratahs or the First Nations-Pasifika game.
“That's a really awesome initiative from Rugby Australia," Reilly said on last week's announcement about the new side.
“The Pasifika-Indigenous group of boys would be an awesome game and hopefully I'm a part of it.
“That's a really awesome initiative from them to put that game on and obviously whoever gets the opportunity to play will be loving that game.”
