Justin Rodski

A moment in time that suggested that we need to make sure that as a football team and football club that we're putting performances in that it's not always about whether or not you win or lose.

It's the way you win or lose.

And that night was a disappointing night for us.

So I've been really pleased with the way that we've responded since then and the way that we're playing.

And I think that the fans understand where we're at.

we've clearly built over a long period of time a lot a body of work that you know hopefully our fans stay loyal and and continue to

come to games and support the team and particularly through this period now where you know this is a call to arms to every single person that's involved in the Melbourne Storm to stay strong stay together and continue to support the team because we have had a very good run for a very long time and just because we're going through a tough patch right now doesn't mean that we should or anyone should be jumping ship in fact I would hope that's the opposite.

Yeah, I've been thinking about this as well, and it's something that's very difficult to measure.

How do you actually know?

And then I was listening to, I think it might have been on your program, some discussion around the Sydney Swans and last year and off the back of that grand final two years ago.

Um, there's elements of that discussion that feel very similar to where we're currently at and what we've been through, uh, both from a playing point of view, coaching point of view, staffing point of view, like, um, I know that globally, no team has ever made a grand final in the third year after losing two grand finals in any professional sport.

That is a, that is a statistic that we were hoping to change.

Yep.

But it does suggest and does prove that clearly historically,

to climb the mountain and get so close, you know, two years in a row, um, must be having some form of impact.

Now, how do you measure that?

How do you know?

I don't know what the answer to that is, but, um,

Hopefully, similar to what the Sydney Swans have done this year, if this is our year this year where we slide down a little bit, then hopefully we can really quickly jump back up.

Yeah, I think we have a couple of times.