Manly need little motivation as they prepare to head up Pittwater Rd to put right a major wrong from last year.
Almost 12 months ago, the Marlins were undone by a committed, fast and enterprising Warringah side at Pittwater Rugby Park.
Rats supporters partied like it was 1999 – which was roughly about the last time they beat Manly.
The memory of that day has been stored away by the boys in blue and will be used as motivation next Saturday.
And the mind games have already begun.
"The Rats are awesome. They are the team to beat at the moment. They are killing good teams," Manly coach Damien Cummins declared with a straight face minutes after Saturday's 39-24 win over Norths.
"Beware of the Rats."
Turtle knows his team will need to play for the full 80 to see off our friends in green and that's why he was a little dirty Norths weren't put away.
Manly led 22-0 and 39-10 before lapses at the end of each half let the Shoremen get closer than they deserved.
"That irks me. The last five minutes of the first half they scored 10 and the last five they scored 14 – so that's 24 points in 10 minutes," Turtle pointed out.
"I say to the boys coming off the bench that they've got to make a difference.
"If you've got a soft belly in the last five minutes of each half, you'll lose the big games.
"But for 70 minutes we were good. Our set piece was excellent. We got a lot of pay out of scrum and the lineout was very good.
"We can be pretty pleased overall."
The Marlins scored six tries in all – and the one that brought the house down was a charge down from prop Dane Maraki early in the second half.
The beared front-rower chased the ball into the in-goal but it looked like a Norths players would win the race only for him to do a Steve Bradbury and leave the Great Dane to dive on the pill.
"I think it was a case of the tortoise winning the race," he said at fulltime.
"I didn’t think there was anyone chasing and then I saw a red and black blur go past and thought he had it…then it popped up.
"I thought those days were gone. I was pretty stoked."
As for Maraki's overall assessment of Manly's performance?
"I think it was pretty good. We just have phases where we switch off which we're trying to eradicate.
"We need to be better than that. We will go up there (Rat Park) keen for a bit of revenge."
Apart from Maraki, fly-half Sam Lane, centre John Fakai, backrower Mitch Daniel and winger Richard Hooper were the Marlins' best.
In a nice touch after the game, Turtle invited some young fans into the dressing-room to join in the Manly Boom Boom victory song.
The coach even covered their young ears for the more risqué parts…
