Phil 'Gus' Gould

It's the most important day on our national calendar from our perspective and we as rugby league people get a chance to share in that

remembrance and that celebration um and it's just a great thing to be a part of you know the the roosters dragons thing has sort of developed and grown a life of its own but we actually have anzac round every game is now in anzac every now and then it's the ceremony in the old days it just used to be that one game had the ceremonial part to it which i enjoy

But every game does it now, and we celebrate the Anzacs, and rightly we should too.

And it's an important day on our national calendar.

But the Dragon Rooster had always had a great rivalry.

But, you know, you get out there on that day, the colour, the ceremony before, and then the red, white and blue up against the red V, it's a great day, wonderful day.

What I like about it is that we really respect, you know, what Anzac means and what the Anzacs mean to us.

And we don't trivialize it into some sort of, you know, celebration occasion just for rugby league.

It's rugby league.

playing its part in the national celebration of this very important day and everything that those people went through i mean i never had to go to war in my life and that's because of these people and what then they gave their lives two years ago um my father did national service his brothers went to war the second world war um but our generations never had to do that and generations they wouldn't even understand i guess what what they went through back in that time you know and that's why

The PNG War Cemetery really struck me with those kids and the young Australians who went away and gave their lives.

We're the ages of our young footballers today.

That was their life then.

This is our life now and we should be really grateful for that.

It's actually the opposite.

It's not that we're trying to inspire or motivate people with war stories.

It's to say, you know, we've got nothing to fear.

Look at our life now compared to what these people had to endure back then and we should be grateful for what we do and

We should attack this without fear and without hesitation.

And we're all coming home after this.