There's no secret to how the Roosters rebuilt their season to win five games in a row and rocket into premiership calculations.
For all the Tricolours' attacking panache and championship pedigree, the biggest difference between the side who looked like missing the finals a few months ago and the one gearing up for a run at another premiership is simple.
The Roosters are bashing other teams. Up the guts, all the time, without mercy. They are storming up the middle and daring everyone they face to try and stop them. And, for the most part, nobody can.
The biggest change for the club over their five-match winning streak is mid-season recruit Matthew Lodge, who is yet to lose a game in Roosters colours and whose presence has revitalised the club's longest-serving player, ageless front-rower Jared Waerea-Hargreaves.
"They're both blockheads, and blockheads stick together. They're the same kind of player, and they're building – Lodgey is getting better every week," star lock Victor Radley said.
"He's a big blockhead and a big body, he runs hard and he's got a lot of passion. Teams need front-rowers and he's a great front-rower."
Their impact was on show in the club's impressive win over the Cowboys on the weekend, where Lodge and Waerea-Hargreaves ran for 153 and 180 metres and both crossed for rare tries.
Lodge's score was particularly impressive, with Waerea-Hargreaves and Radley combining to put the mid-season recruit through a yawning gap.
But for all their pretty play, Radley is under no illusions as to why the club has been able to turn things around.
For him, playing with the same ruthless physicality that's been on show in recent weeks is part and parcel of life at Bondi.
"It's a part of the Roosters' DNA. We're not discovering it, we're just implementing it," Radley said.
"It's not a choice for us, it's just how we play."
With all their playmakers peaking at the right time, the forwards looking so mean they could scare a starving dog off a meat truck, and the looming return of experienced forwards Lindsay Collins and Sio Siua Taukeiaho, it's no wonder the Roosters are being tipped as one of the few teams that can seriously challenge Penrith for the title.
Currently sitting eighth, Robinson's side has all the ingredients to become just the third team in Australian rugby league history to win the title from outside the top four.
Much of that will depend on Radley staying on the field – the 24-year-old has hit a rich vein of form in recent weeks as he looks to string together matches after two years blighted by injury and suspension.
"It's not about me, it's about the team, it's about 17 men being clear on their roles and all of us working towards the same thing," Radley said.
"That's what we've done well, everyone is really clear on each other's roles and what we're going to do. It makes everyone look better."
