You can't tell me that was a consistent 80 minutes. We were up and down, dropped the ball on the first a couple of times, did some silly things. We're still learning.

He's in good shape and in good spirits. He's busting to play so that's always good to see and psychologically I think he's in good shape as well.

I believe it's something we can overcome. We wouldn't use it as an excuse.

If he turns up on Saturday and passes a fitness test, he'll play.

These two players, both have left the club for money. So for them to be talking ... I do recall Les playing for Manly and Tommy leaving for money as well.

It's early days but I was pleased to hear the reports about Grant and will be interested to see how he goes when they start playing.

There'll be 25,000 people booing each time we've got a foot inside the 10 or we're doing something they're not happy with.

There was no determination it was actually fractured, we weren't a hundred per cent sure.

The Bulldogs will be hard to beat; they won it the year before us. They had a lot of injuries last year and last week had virtually their best side on the park.

Anyone can dig up players from years ago to talk about clubs.