Rory Lobb

The last five games that we'd lost against them, we feel like we were really disappointed in that gather round game where they just got on top of us and made us look second rate.

So it was really going in.

with a plan to be confrontational, like guys that just have done it for so long, just stepping on the back of them with Louis and Selwood and then Bont standing up and kicking those goals and just doing what he does.

It's just, yeah, it's been good.

Yeah, like I said, we're just trying to win the contest and get it going forward at all costs.

Yeah, I mean, to a certain degree, you need to have that physicality and be confrontational.

I mean, the game has changed a lot since I came into the league 13 years ago where, you know, you'll get...

beaten up as a young player.

And I feel like it sort of has gone away from that in a way.

But yeah, I mean, the demands of the game where you're trying to stop Oppo doing what they want to do with the ball.

And if you can be physical and get them off their game a little bit that way, you know, it really helps you win games these days because teams are so good at moving the ball and so good in that aspect of, you know, playing as a team, defending as a team, it's really hard to score.

No, I mean, Cody's the ultimate professional, and I always knew he would eventually get back, but at times you think when you keep getting setback after setback, you're just like, when will this come?

Luckily, he's not as old as I am.

I don't know if I would have got back at my age with what he went through, but

Yeah, he's such a positive guy.

He was in a great headspace going into that game and I admire him for that.

He asked me if he was nervous and this was just before the game and he said, I'm just that excited to get out there and play with my mates.

Yeah, I'm actually about to do some recovery with him.

We've got a six-day turnaround, but I'll ask him how he's going.

But yeah, he was good.