Two weeks ago, he was trying to prevent Nick Cotric taking his NRL jumper. Now, Edrick Lee will simply be trying to stop him full stop when he faces off on Saturday against Canberra.
New Cronulla winger Lee admits feeling uneasy by the prospect of coming against his former teammates just two weeks after departing the nation's capital due to salary-cap pressures.
"It's weird because I was there for a while," Lee told AAP of the clash with Canberra.
"But I've had to get my head around being a Sharkie. It was strange at first to hear it but, throughout that first week, I told myself that I had to move on."
And on the opposite side of the field will be teenage sensation Cotric, solid in his highly anticipated debut replacing Lee on the Raiders' left flank in round one.
Lee claimed he knew little of the Raiders' prodigy, who busted six tackles and carried the ball for 159 metres against North Queensland, but would be doing plenty of video on him.
"I know he's a local junior, a young lad that came through the ranks. I know that he played in Australian Schoolboys, too," Lee said.
"Other than that, I don't know him too well, but he's got an opportunity now to show what he can do for them. I'm sure I'll be doing a lot of footage work on him to study up."
Lee turned in a quiet performance in his first outing in Sharks colours, carting the ball up for 91 metres off eight runs.
He reasoned that he was still coming to grips with the switch of clubs at the 11th hour, but was determined to find his groove on his old stomping ground at GIO Stadium.
"It was one thing that was hard to realise - I've joined a team that won the competition last year and set the benchmark for this year," Lee said.
"I've just got to make sure I transition well here, know my role and perform it. It's all about moving forward now and getting the win against my old club."
