By Michael Atkinson Imagine you’ve just finished a rugby season for your club, perhaps you’ve won the premiership and adding to that elation, you’ve been selected in a National Rugby Championship squad. Now imagine your first game is against Queensland Country and running out on to the field for them is a guy who has won a Rugby World Cup, a NRL Premiership, a Heineken Cup, several Super Rugby Championships and is widely regarded as one of the greatest All Blacks of all time. That’s the affect Queensland Country are hoping to have when they roll out Brad Thorn as a player-coach for the 2016 NRC season. “I feel ok, you know. I’ve never stopped training. The only difference in my life from the last 20 years is that I haven’t been playing on Saturdays,” said Thorn. “I just enjoy playing. I don’t feel like I’m blocking anyone, and I won’t.” In his first season as a coach, Thorn has been tasked with guiding the next generation of Queensland forwards, helping