With his future locked down in NSW, young gun Sid Harvey is looking to change future outcomes against New Zealand opposition.
Harvey has re-committed his future with the Waratahs until 2028, with the club quick to lock him down after a breakout debut season.
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The former Sevens star has cemented his spot in the outside backs, starting the last four games, including a match-winning performance against the ACT Brumbies.
“I was always intent on staying here. My family's all here, my friends are all here. I love this club as well," Harvey said.
“I've only been here for a few months now, and I'm learning a lot. I want to stay here for a few more years and test this out and see how far we can go."
The 20-year-old has been left to stew on last week's tough performance against the Chiefs, with the Waratahs outclassed 42-14.
“I think we were a little bit intimidated, to be honest, and it was really frustrating for the coaches, especially, but for players as well. We knew we were so much better than that, and we let them play their game and walk all over us," he said. "I was making silly errors that I wouldn't normally make and a lot of the game wasn't us and we kind of just let them dictate terms.
“I think the boys have learned a lot from that. We go from a week before where we put on a performance and dominated the Brumbies in a lot of areas and then to go there and get our pants pulled down a little bit was pretty frustrating and pretty disappointing.”
Harvey is looking to turn the tide after his debut ended in another thumping loss to the Hurricanes.
“I think straight after the game, the general feel was we just got bullied and everyone's kind of getting a bit sick of it, to be honest. We go there and we're expected to lose against these New Zealand teams," he said.
“I don't know, something's got to change and I think that's just going to be on us as a group. It's not on the coaches; there's nothing more they can say. It just becomes the same thing.
“I think it's really good to look within each other and look to each other, and that belief that as soon as we go to New Zealand, we can still play our game and our game works. Hopefully we can learn from that in a few weeks but yeah, just focus on next week against Moana.”
The reigning Rugby Australia Rookie of the Year is part of a generation that has never seen the Wallabies hoist the Bledisloe Cup.
But they come into Super Rugby with more confidence around competing with their Kiwi counterparts, with Harvey kicking a conversion after the siren to draw at last year's U20 Rugby Championship.
“I'm not a psychologist so I don't really know the proper answer but I hope it rubs off," he said on if the success can translate.
“I think there's a few scars from the last few years…I haven't seen a Bledisloe win in my life so I think there's always scars like that and there's always that mental challenge to overcome but I think it's really just going back to basics of just our game and not going away from it.
“We go there and get overawed a little bit but hopefully there's a little bit of fresh, young [energy] that haven't lost to New Zealand yet or some of the boys that are coming up from under 18s they've just beaten New Zealand their whole life so hopefully they can rub a little bit off on us.”
