NRL stars ready for Cowboys V Knights finals clash

Newcastle's Kalyn Ponga and North Queensland's Tom Dearden look forward to their finals clash. Video by AAP.

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00:00Yeah, it was a good performance on the weekend and I thought it was important that we could

00:05secure that home semi-final because we know how much it means to the people of North Queensland

00:10and they travel a long way to come and watch us play and we're really excited to play in front

00:15of them on Saturday night. North Queensland people are rugby league mad and they're going

00:20to get right behind us on Saturday night and it's going to be a packed out stadium up there

00:24in Townsville and yeah really excited for the week of preparation and then for Saturday night.

00:29Caelan, that was special yesterday. Yeah, it was. To have 30,000 at home, it was pretty special for

00:36us. You know, it's a performance we've probably been building into for the last three, four weeks

00:40and you know it sets up this week pretty well. It's a challenge to go up there. We're excited

00:45by it. To go up north and for myself, play against some mates, play against Tommy, you know, it's a

00:51position you want to be in really for us. We want to be playing this footy at the end of the year

00:54and we know it's ahead of us.