Jacob Wiedering

Thanks for having me, Gerard.

Yeah, it's been a tough, tough start to the year, clearly.

The results and the outcomes...

probably illustrate that but um yeah at the same time you've just got to continue to uh get back on the horse and and try and do your job and um that's certainly been difficult with i guess the external noise and and some other things that have been going on but um you know we spoke about it as a leader you've just got to continue fronting up and um yeah it's been that sort of a year for us

It's probably up there based on sort of the progress that we majored, especially with Vossi coming in from 2022 and those years we played in those finals, 23 and 24.

We feel like as a club, there's been a lot of progress in those years and

Clearly, the game's changed quite a lot, even in the last couple of years.

I think a lot of people are seeing that.

As I sort of mentioned, the outcome, or if you want to look at the externals, the latter, certainly don't paint us in the best light at the minute, and that's completely fair.

So it's certainly a tough time.

But again, you've just got to keep fronting up.

There's a long season ahead.

I was asked the question, what's your sort of purpose?

going forward as a club and, um, you probably can't look too far into the future.

Naturally, you've just got to keep focusing on what you can control and, um, yeah, we've got a job to do against Lyon.

It's a, it's a question, I guess, for the last eight weeks, Joe, we've been trying to, to put a finger on.

Um, there's probably a, a variety of issues.

Um, for,

For the first part of the season, it was probably a first half that was really worrying.

We had the Sydney game and then obviously the game on the weekend that probably blew past us very quickly.