The hot seat is gradually getting cooler for South Sydney halfback Adam Reynolds. Eight games into his NRL career, Reynolds is starting to feel comfortable, and it’s not so much what he’s doing on the football field, but rather what he’s saying. “Definitely – you see it at training each week,” Rabbitohs coach Michael Maguire said when asked if Reynolds was becoming more vocal on the field. “He’s taking that step forward, as halfback you’re pushing the team around and letting the players know where they’ve got to be. “He’s a mature young kid and he’s doing a great job for the team … he’s only played eight games for us – the upside for a young kid like that to push the team around the park is only going to improve.” Telling the likes of Greg Inglis, David Taylor, Matt King and Michael Crocker what to do – with all of them Test representatives – is no mean feat. “They make it easier, they put the pressure on me and they tell me to be the leader,” Reynolds said of his senior teammates. “They’ve got confidence in me so it makes my job easy.” Another who has made it look easy for the Bunnies this year is winger Andrew Everingham, who was rewarded for his brilliant start to his NRL career with a new one-year contract. Everingham, who scored a try in his first six games in the top grade, said he was hoping just to get a taste of the NRL in 2012, having served a long apprenticeship in the lower grades. “I got told right from the start I was going to be behind a few players,” 25-year-old Everingham said. “So I was just hoping to get a few games under my belt, though I thought it would be towards the back end of the season.” “I’ve been a reserve grader for six years, so I haven’t given up. “Once you get here, it’s not like I want to give it up straight away.” Maguire said Everingham had made the most of his opportunity, which presented itself when Nathan Merritt suffered a toe injury during the All-Stars clash in February. Merritt only returned last week, but by then Everingham had done enough to secure his spot in the side. “He came in over the pre-season very quiet and went about what he needed to do,” Maguire said of Everingham. “He’s impressed me since Christmas, he started to show some signs he understood what we were trying to do here and as he’s shown that on the field. “He’s definitely taken his opportunity.”