The Roosters may have piled on the points against a struggling Dragons outfit, but Trent Robinson has conceded he “felt for” Dean Young after being handed a reality check.

In his first game as interim Red V coach, Young’s outfit went down 62-16 on ANZAC Day, with the Tricolours running in a staggering 11 tries at Allianz Stadium.

Even though his side showed no mercy on the field, off it Robinson was asked if he had any sympathy for the Dragons squad, who endured a turbulent week after Shane Flanagan’s sacking.

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“Yeah, yeah you do. It’s a hard game the NRL, and so it should be,” Robinson said.

“This competition is difficult and they are going through a difficult time, I think Dean has had a tough day today.

“But I think he had a good week in setting the tone for how he wanted the club to go forward, and for them I hope that today doesn’t change that.

“You set a path, yeah you might get a short-term sugar hit, but that’s not the point. He’s made some strong decisions and yeah I felt for him today.

“Because I know what it’s like to get started on your vision. But I’d say he had a really good week, 80 minutes today wasn’t what he wanted but there was strength in what he did.”

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While the Dragons injected young gun Kade Reed into their spine, it was the Roosters’ key men that gave him a lesson in rugby league.

Especially considering their display on Saturday was arguably the best performance the quartet of James Tedesco, Sam Walker, Daly Cherry-Evans and Reece Robson have put together.

“Obviously putting on 60-odd points, there was going to be lots of opportunities if we created it today,” Robinson said.

“That’s what we really value today. We take today with a lot of pride, (that) we get to play on this day and we feel like it’s the marquee game of this day and that’s not lost on the Roosters.

“So I think that was really important and then the opposition’s been through a fair bit this week, we understand that.

“The thing I really enjoyed, the way that we played, yeah. But I mean most people were asking this week about what happens when a team gets a rebound effect.

“And what happens when this happens and everyone’s trying to project about what happens when people change coaches and all of that and that was swirling a lot.

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“What our choice was, to either play into that or it was was set a tone on how we wanted to play and stick to that. So I felt like the best thing about today was the mindset and the skill set followed.”

The Roosters have now strung three wins together, beating the Sharks and Knights prior to their demolition of the Dragons.

That consistency was key for Robinson, who praised his side’s mindset and their execution, with majority of their attacking sequences producing points.

“Yeah, I felt like (our) mindset was really clear. We start the first half, (it) was exactly how we wanted to start,“ he said.

“There’s always things that you want to, there was some things we had to discuss at half time that we wanted to improve.

“But overall the 80 minutes, the attitude was really clear and also the execution for the most part was really clear.”