Justin Rodski

Been a great build-up.

When you get a game like we did for the first game and the theatre around that, the comeback win for New South Wales, it sets up game two beautifully, and it's great to be back at the MCG for...

I think this could be the last one for a little while, I think, with the game next year going to New Zealand.

So the NRL is hopeful of breaking the all-time record, which I think is somewhere close to 93,000, somewhere there.

So ticket sales have been really strong.

I think there's still a few available.

So if anyone's thinking about heading down, get down there.

It's going to be a great spectacle.

It'll be a big boast if it's the biggest crowd of the year so far.

It will be.

It's the one time of the year where people speak fondly about Melbourne from up north, don't they, when they talk about coming down to the MCG.

But it is the Coliseum of Sport in Australia.

It's the best stadium in the world, in my opinion, and I'm really looking forward to it.

I just think it's the halo of rugby league, seeing the spectacle, the theatre of the sport.

It's obviously one of the most combative, intense games of sport that you'll ever witness live.

So from a pure entertainment factor, the spectacle of the event, the crowd, the build-up, all of the marketing around it, the media attention that it gets, I think it's

certainly helps us helps rugby league and helps you know people remember that the melbourne storm and rugby league is a is a big game and a big sport and a big code and uh hopefully that translates to more people coming along to watch the melbourne storm and but that's on the reason on the progress of cooper connelly he's comfortable batting in that top order and look i think it was irrelevant odi bangladesh had won the series yes australia you know uh even if they had lost i mean who how many people would have cared that oh australia got whitewashed or

If I'm being honest, yes.

Yes.

The pressure on this young lad, and I love this kid.