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.

Yeah

... that's a lot of energy.

You know, so to me the, as I've learned and as I've gone on, it's like kinda having this, like, rolling project where you kinda continue to see things and you're there to find and scrutinize and to kind of examine what you're actually doing.

And so, um, even this year I've kind of just focused on, I've two, two printers now.

I used to have four different printers.

Some of the printers I used to print, like, photographs, which I was, like, printing with restraint, but still using a lot of ink, like maybe covering half the page rather than the full one.

Those printers would actually just, like, they'd be done and they wouldn't work within a year, and there was no way of fixing it, so you'd get it, like, replaced 'cause it was under guarantee.

I saw the pictures and everything on your socials, and it looks like you have, like, a wooden kind of spine, um, with some elastics, is it, that you can slot in, that people, you can use to slot the paper into?

Your... following the World Cup as well?

Yes, yeah, I have been.

I hadn't planned to, but I ended up staying up to watch even the Argentina game.

Thinking, oh, done in 90 minutes.

Obviously, what goes to extra time? And then I look at my phone and it's half four in the morning.

I'm regretting this.

Yeah, I mean, for England, I think they've done, I mean, results-wise, they've done really well, obviously, but... performance has not been great i don't think i think they're just i think two calls east finding a way to win these matches i've actually really liked most of his subs the subs have been have been very good i think and i've got them over the line uh obviously kane and bellingham have been the majority of of all the work they've done um But I think it's a shame if we're talking about Saka.

got to

There's not too many teams go and, and pick up wins in it.

No, there isn't.

Um, Killarney on a packed day for championship, uh, Sean, with a, with a ferocious Kerry crowd, and a Kerry crowd, I suppose, that are really behind the team, is a really tough place to come and get a result, and it's, it's a brilliant place to play in when you're wearing the green and gold.

There's nothing like it.

The weather is supposed to be good at the weekend by all accounts.

Judging by Ticketmaster, the tickets are flying.

I think the stand is full already.

I think Blaine Hughes possibly will be, so it could hinge on, on who's at, at either end.

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.