North Queensland forward Gavin Cooper says his team has not forgotten their loss to the Sydney Roosters in last year’s finals and says it’s the perfect example of what they can’t do again in 2015.

“From our point of view it’s not so much the start but lapses in some of our systems that we let each other down in,” Cooper said.

“It takes a try or something like that for us to turn on and in the finals you can’t wait for that try.

“On the weekend against the Titans we were really good in our first few sets with and without the ball and then we gave away two quick penalties and they were attacking our line.

“We didn’t regroup after those couple of penalties and that’s how quickly it can turn.

“In finals you can’t do that, we showed that last year giving the Roosters a 30-point lead.

“Yes we got back to 30-all but the game was well and truly lost by that stage.”

The Cowboys play the Brisbane Broncos in a huge Queensland derby at Suncorp Stadium in Week One of the playoffs.