Kerr Yule has praised the mentorship he’s received from three Scotland international centres after penning his first professional contract.
It was announced on Tuesday afternoon that the 20-year-old had penned his maiden pro deal to join a long-list of academy players in recent weeks.
Yule has made four appearances this season and he’s learning everyday alongside the established centres at Scotstoun; Huw Jones, Sione Tuipulotu and Stafford McDowall.
He said: "I'm pretty lucky to have Sione, Stafford and Shuggy to learn off every day, even if I'm just picking up little things to do. They're class at helping out and stuff so I just try to learn from them any way I can. They've been good.
Read more:
"I think it's an exciting challenge, having players like Sione and Staff in your position, it's something to strive towards. They're at the top of their game and I need to get there.
"It's also just good having the learning, picking up things that they would do to try and put in my game. It's a good goal to have them in my position."
"I think it is better because I have to work harder. If I was somewhere else and there wasn't that caliber of player, I'd have to work harder to get to that sort of level."
Yule was overjoyed to pen his first professional contract after growing up supporting the club and the target now is now to earn more opportunities by impressing in training.
"I’m pretty buzzing,” admitted Yule. “I've been in the academy for three years now and this is my first pro deal. I've been a fan of the club for longer than I can remember, probably since I was like six years old so signing this first contract really means a lot to me."
"Continue to work hard and whenever my next opportunity is to play with the club, just take that and then just kind of take it game by game, week by week and just hopefully get a bit more game time next year and following on, just trying to take more opportunities."
Read more:
There’s a number of young centres emerging at Glasgow like Johnny Ventisei and Duncan Munn, who are all pushing each other on the pitch but they are close friends off it.
"Yeah, it's a friendly rivalry I'd say,” Yule added.
“I've known Johnny since playing against each other from minis. It's a good group of centres we have, all helping each other out, doing extras after training, doing whatever we need to do. It's a good bunch."
Share