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The Sydney Roosters are in search of a three-peat this season, something never achieved in the NRL era and a feat last done by the Parramatta Eels between 1981 and 1983 in what was then known as the New South Wales Rugby League.
That’s the target for Trent Robinson in this so-far disrupted season, but he is facing stiff competition to do so, especially from Parramatta, the side he is hoping to emulate.
He and his Roosters come up against the Storm on Thursday evening in a repeat of 2018’s Grand Final, with both sides looking to make a statement to the other.
But in order to take the Roosters to the next level, he has dipped his toe into other sports and taken little pieces of certain teams’ successes from around the world.
The Roosters visited Barcelona’s Camp Nou at the start of the year ahead of their World Club Challenge win and Robinson has been keeping a close eye on Liverpool’s recent Premier League triumph too.
“I love watching teams around the world that do that but I also know the personality of each individual player that I’m watching play,” Robinson said on Wednesday.
“I love watching - whether it’s Liverpool who have just won the title - but then you’ll watch (Andrew) Robertson at the back and (Mo) Salah in the midfield. You’ll watch their own unique style and Klopp has done an amazing job in doing that.
“There’s that continual search to offer that to players whilst being a team - being an absolute team.”
Klopp is a big fan of letting his players express themselves both on the pitch and off it and many have put that extra freedom and trust he allows them as a key factor in the building of such a successful team.
It’s a tactic Robinson has taken and imposed on his own style of play.
“What we’re trying to do is wholeheartedly believe in our style of play. That’s first of all in what we want to do.
“We believe in the way that we play, we believe in the intensity that we play with and the focus that we play with.
“But we also want you to be yourself, we want you to express your personality on top of that and what you love to do in the game but it must go hand in hand with our style of play.”
Robinson has also plucked ideas from the New England Patriots, a side which knows how to build a dynasty having won six Super Bowls under Bill Bilichick with the simple mantra of ‘do your job’.
“An amazing organisation in the way they did that. Their mantra of ‘do your job’. Absolutely - that’s the Patriots way,” he added. “You have to play their style. You can debate the personality coming out on the other end and I guess how much freedom was given within that. But that’s where it slightly differs, I think.
“You have a [Pep] Guardiola team at Manchester City, where he is really trying to mould all those different players - or Barcelona in their own way.
“I think what Kansas City [Chiefs] did this year in allowing that to happen was a really good example. But longevity has come through people understanding the team and the principles that they play for.”
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...k/news-story/f36be7ef2f70c8ac3c2b130cd9456ed6
