Welcome to the NRL, Mitch Rivett.
After a nervous NRL debut for Brisbane against Sydney Roosters veteran Anthony Minichiello last weekend, things don't get any easier for the 20-year-old Redcliffe winger who bears a striking resemblance to former Balmain favourite Garry Jack.
Given a crash course by former Golden Boot
winner Minichiello, Rivett's next NRL lesson is at the hands of Brett Morris, a lanky try-scoring machine who has nabbed 50 tries in 65 games.
Morris earned himself a spot in Australia's Four Nations-winning squad after finishing 2009 as the NRL's top try scorer.
Coach Ivan Henjak has told Rivett not to worry about who he is marking up on and just to focus on his own game after a few errors in his debut.
"We've all had a talk and we're not going to be afraid of the challenge ahead of us," said Henjak before taking Brisbane's most inexperienced side outside of Origin to Wollongong to play the Dragons tonight.
"We've got some things we want to do really well and a few little battles we want to win and if we do that, who knows.
"There's no pressure. I've told them the result is irrelevant whether we win or lose as long as we have a good old-fashioned crack.
"It's not a semifinal, it's not a grand final, there's nothing on the line.
"He just has to go out and enjoy playing against a really good player and test himself."
With more than a million dollars of their salary cap sidelined, Brisbane suffered another casualty when highly regarded physical performance director Dean Benton resigned on Wednesday.
Benton, who was part of Brisbane's last premiership season in 2006, is moving to the Gold Coast to pursue "other interests".
- AAP
