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glory days it's that time of the year where there's a buzz of anticipation and words megan hustwaite with hubs and state-based covid nrl teams this year return to playing in front of their adoring fans on the biggest stage of all it's something that excites reigning afl premiership coach simon goodwin and star midfielder christian petracca from the melbourne demons and their nrl counterparts penrith panthers coach ivan cleary and fullback dylan edwards the demons broke a 57-year drought when they raised the cup in perth against panthers prevailed over south sydney rabbitohs in queensland where their season was relocated to "it's certainly a driving force for the playing group and something we touched on right brought a lot of joy to a lot of supporters with what we were able to achieve last year but we'd love to do it in front of them and have them experience what it's like at the families who weren't able to get to perth for the grand final last year." christian agrees that playing finals at the mcg has been a big part of their motivation this year rtz one utiss svestone had it here the last couple of years with amazing," the 2021 norm smith medallist reaching footy's greatest heights at the mcg on the last saturday in september is he was part of the adelaide crows' back-to- alive grand final week with the grand final parade and there is nothing better won the clive churchill medal for man of the match "it's really hard to explain how special four years ago and a big part of that was to coach nathan but there was a lot of pressure on the both of us," ivan explains guilty so for it to turn around and win the premiership was very special "an incredible moment memories that will last forever "you just have to give it your all to achieve success." sherrin afl dylan says it's a tight team at the something special." …… he says a lot of players were battling but they all supported each other in their quest for glory "i was definitely not the only one." he says of having to nurse a broken foot in the grand final "that is what we had to do to get through it as a team and as a club that is the to give it your all to achieve success." ivan says playing in front of a vocal home crowd will help the panthers in their quest for back-to-back titles "last year we saw videos of the streets mayhem so you do imagine playing in front of the fans," he says "it's something we'd all like to experience it'd be totally different to last year where in the sheds after the game it was just us but amazing "in sydney the sheds would be just jam- wouldn't mind winning it where it's the opposite to last year and just mayhem hopefully we can find out what that's like." "people feed off the energy it's why you play footy." petracca zurich