Brisbane flyer Jharal Yow Yeh says he won’t change the aggressive way he chases down attacking kicks after being penalised against North Queensland last Friday night for the high-risk NRL tactic.

Yow Yeh’s fearless style of running and jumping at pace to snatch the football from defender’s fingertips has produced some amazing tries in his career haul of 32 for the Broncos.

But it backfired when he was pulled up midway through the first half of the 28-26 loss to the Cowboys for taking out fullback Matt Bowen.

“The referee reckoned I took the other player out,” said Yow Yeh, who faces a tough defensive job on Friday night against powerful Newcastle winger James McManus.

“I jumped like I usually do but the ball swung away from me late. I had full intentions of going for the ball.

“I’ve been doing it now for the last two years, it’s how I always attack the kicks.”

Asked if he would have to temper his style a little he said “no way”.

“Hook (coach Anthony Griffin) has told me to keep doing it so I’m just going to keep doing it,” he said.

“If it works, it works.”

While Knights destroyer Akuila Uate is rated the hardest winger in the NRL to stop, Yow Yeh said the 93kg McManus was a handful.

“Bealey (Gerard Beale) is on big Uate. I’m on McManus, who’s very strong and difficult to tackle,” said Yow Yeh, who secured State of Origin and Test honours last season.

“Any winger in the NRL is hard to play on but I do enjoying playing against McManus because he is a very tough, physical winger to stop.”

Newcastle coach Wayne Bennett has named Ryan Stig as Kurt Gidley’s five-eighth replacement but there’s been whispers Matt Hilder or even Darius Boyd could run out at five-eighth on Friday night.

Griffin said he wouldn’t authorise players to deliberately test fiery centre Timana Tahu’s resolve to avoid another brain snap in his first game back since a kneeing suspension.

Broncos centre Justin Hodges is renowned for getting rivals to react but Griffin said it would not be a tactic Brisbane would employ.

“Timana is a real strike centre for them,” said Griffin.

“He made an error of judgment with that (kneeing) suspension, everyone does that at different stages, has a brain snap.

“We’re worried about ourselves this week, not Newcastle.

“We need to get ourselves back to playing to a standard we’re happy with whether Timana is out there or whether Stig plays five-eighth or not.”