Yes

...they, in their fourth year, they've made the top four.

They had a home prelim.

But we speak about a home prelim, you know, in front of fifty-two thousand fans, you would be expecting them to kind of walk away into a grand final, um, being, being in, um, at their home ground.

And obviously they did a such a good job to beat the Warriors away from home, uh, two weeks ago.

And, you know, maybe they were really up for that one, and the week off just kind of made them dip.

And, you know, I thought, um, you know, their, their class players showed.

Course he would

What are the positives from a rooster's point of view that you're taking out of tonight?

I think the positives is Marky Mark, Rob Toya, Angus Crichton is back.

Celestia Fekete, when they're using him right, is such a damaging player.

And I think we saw, even if Sam Walker isn't right, Hugo Safale kind of filled, you know, he kind of made his way into that game and you could tell he's starting to feel a little bit more comfortable compared to last week.

But...

I think the positives for them is they can do it.

You know, six to eight weeks ago, everyone was saying that the Roosters were going to win the comp and how much they were going to win the comp because they were unstoppable.

Sean, what sort of adjustments do you think Cronulla could make to try and get to the next level? I think the

Uh, Sean, what did you think of the Chooks, and what do you think their prospects look like, uh, hosting Cronulla next Sunday?

I think they'll take a lot of lessons, especially, you know, they're seven, six, nine and one.

Um, I think, you know, we saw in the second half the first two times when they went down there, one when the Panthers had 12 men, they made a error off the scrum on play one, and the next time they went down there, made another error on play two.

Um, I think they'll take just a lot of learnings on the fact that in finals football you can't make mistakes, and especially when you're in good ball and y- you know, you got your chances to score, you need to take them with, with anything 'cause, you know, they don't come around often.

So yeah, I think, um, there'll be a lot of learnings there on just the fact of, you know, their nine, seven, six, one just being connected, building their sets, getting the ball to where it needs to get to.

Um, but yeah, I think, um- It, yeah, I, i-if there's a team that's gonna bounce back in this final series, the Roosters, they have, you know, they got some individual brilliance.

Like, we-

Mm.

Um, your first year at the Dogs, what, what's the expectation there when you come in? Like when, when you change from a club, you come into the Dogs, how are you sold on the team or how are you sold on the club?

Well, I think first of all, um, you know, you have a lot of trust in what Cameron Ciraldo's done there.

Every single year, the Bulldogs have gotten better.

Uh, you feel like they've kind of woken up that whole Bulldogs army, so to say.

And so now, you know, walking in, you definitely think that it's gonna be a club that's, that wants to be competitive and is going to be competitive.

So for me anyway, you know, you really just wanna add to that every single day you walk into those, into, um, into those walls.

And yeah, for me it's just about every single day trying to get better, learn the system, build connection, uh, with your teammates and, um, you know, obviously you can set goals or, or whatever as a club and as a team, but I think for us it's just about getting better every single day and, you know, where we end up will be, um, up to us.

You've learned aspects of the game.