How special is this one?

Yeah, it's obviously a special one, especially with the playing group we've got.

We've got a lot of young boys on this side, but like I said, I love playing with every single one of them.

They're super competitive.

They all want to win.

They all want to compete, and that's what we had to do tonight.

The Warriors threw everything at us, and we'd done everything we could to hold on, and it went right to the end, so super proud of this team.

Very similar in a lot of ways to the Warriors, so you wouldn't fear that match-up?

How special is this one?

Yeah, it's obviously a special one, especially with the playing group we've got.

We've got a lot of young boys on this side, but like I said, I love playing with every single one of them.

They're super competitive.

They all want to win.

They all want to compete, and that's what we had to do tonight.

The Warriors threw everything at us, and we'd done everything we could to hold on, and it went right to the end, so super proud of this team.

Very similar in a lot of ways to the Warriors, so you wouldn't fear that match-up?

What was the talk during the week in terms of bouncing back from those devastating losses?

I think that's the best thing about our side now.

Obviously, they're two massive blows.

They're two key players.

But in saying that, we get Caelan Ponga back, a fullback.

Fletcher Sharpe sets out to number six.

He showed what he does, and then we had 10, and that fills in that halfback role.

What has he done so well?

What'd you think of the performance?

Yeah, I thought we started well.

Um, we spoke about, um, what we wanted to do, and I thought we did that.

Um, but then it kinda got away from us a bit.

Uh, just a little bit of discipline, some penalties, few errors, and then, um, we, we obviously gotta work on those last plays and, and them early kicks.

They, I think all their tries come off the back of them offloading in their own half.

A few breaks and then getting down in our half, they just managed to put it in behind and got a few tries from there, so, um, something to work on.

What, what's the plan at the end of this season? Have you worked it out yet?

You guys are flying.

Yeah, there's still obviously plenty of room for improvement.

Like I said, we had a few too many errors.

A few ill-discipline in the first half there.

I think, um, we went, uh, seven tackles set, then penalty, penalty, and then they scored.

And, um, at this level, you just can't be doing that sort of stuff.

But like I said, there's a lot to like about our game, um, and we're still building.

Do you wanna stay here in Newcastle?