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Mike's Minute: What a celebration for the Warriors

17 Sep 2023

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It was more of a celebration than a win, wasn’t it? The Knights, on a ten-game roll, were brought to a shuddering halt by a side that, if we play that way this weekend and then the final, we will win it all. It was funny to read some of the post-game commentary about the Broncos, about how good they are, how big they are and how fast they are. It’s a signature of a small country and a small mind if the first thing you do is look ahead to what the problems next week are. What that thinking fails to recognise is that we are big, and fast, and good as well. We finished 4th on the table. We are in the final four and we didn’t scrape in. We didn’t rely on luck, the other sides didn’t play badly. We won because we are as good as anyone. Read some of the Australian commentary because it's been some of the most uplifting coverage in the latter part of the season. The Australians are in genuine awe of what the Warriors have achieved. They are the fairytale of the season. And that's coming from the Sydney Morning Herald. They see Shaun Johnson as the Dally M winner and they see Webster as coach of the year. They haven't forgotten, unlike the NRL, the price we have paid over the Covid years, stuck away from home with all those promises about making it up to us. Saturday night was as good as you will ever see, both in atmosphere and performance. To be so dominant that you pull a couple of your best players off with time left is the stuff of dreams. Johnson seemed untouched by his leg injury and was a reminder of just how influential and brilliant he is. And it's because of that quality that I still maintain that unless we make the final, this will be a season and a chance lost. The only point of competing is to compete to win. We haven't won yet. But, unlike the other years when we have made it but fallen short, we look a better side. We look better credentialed, and we look like we belong there. We have all we need. The rest is up to us. If we play two more times like we played Saturday, then this really is our year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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