How much stock do you put into the in-season results as you head into finals?

Well, look, you take some things from it, but I always say the style of football that it takes to win a league... versus the style you can play to win a finals game, two totally different things.

No one cares how it looks in a finals match.

If that makes sense, a team can pinch a goal and then decide to kick it into the car park for the other 89 minutes.

So we're very aware of what teams might do to try and nullify that.

you know, our weapons and sort of vice versa.

So that's what makes Australian soccer unique.

What do you have to do to get over the top of Lake Albert this weekend? What are you expecting from the Sharkies?