The team sheds were once the inner sanctum of rugby league.
But nowadays NRL change-rooms are just another place for prying television cameras to give fans a real-life glimpse of their heroes.
Typically the post match fare is rather benign, but Round 20 delivered entertainment in spades as two very different characters put on two very different ‘performances’ post-match.
First up came the ever-passionate Sea Eagles captain Jake Trbojevic on Saturday night, fully pumped after Manly hung on for a controversial 18-16 win at AAMI Park that ended the Storm’s 10-match home winning streak.
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Kicking over bottles and jumping around like a teenager, 31-year-old Trbojevic could barely contain his excitement, despite having just played the full 80 minutes.
Hahaha JAKEY is fired up after the upset win over the Storm! pic.twitter.com/WUVkhaaBbY
— NRLCentral (@centralNRL) July 19, 2025
Titans get a cold shower from Des.
Less than twenty-four hours later it was a very different story in the musty depths of the old Leichhardt Oval grandstand in Sydney’s inner west.
A furious Gold Coast Titans coach Des Hasler was apoplectic following the last-second 21-20 loss to the Tigers that now places his club in very real danger of claiming the 2025 NRL wooden spoon.
Cameras showed Hasler berating several of his players for having the audacity to take an early shower, angrily summonsing them back into the sheds for a good old fashioned dressing down.
WATCH: Des Hasler was not impressed when some Titans boys hit the showers early
— NRLCentral (@centralNRL) July 20, 2025
(Fox League) pic.twitter.com/pIDW3rjxEe
Both performances were overflowing with passion and unfiltered emotion—question is, who did it better?