Adam Simpson

It's about what's happening up the ground.

And they did it well last night.

And Cody Waitman, another one who, he got criticised for bringing him back, but when he spoke... He looked good.

He looked fine.

And the justification, and it is, and Bevo did say, do your homework.

And I don't know who was critical of the decision, but the decision was, well, let's play him after two years being out of the game.

But the reason was there was a six-day break for the Bulldogs going into next week.

If he had played, he would have played today at VFL.

That's a five-day break, and you probably can't come up first game

Off a five day break.

So they go into this game with a managed plan and yeah, it's, it's, it's interesting.

All these decisions you make from a club point of view, there's so much data and it's not, it's not a gut feel.

There's quite often, there's a lot of analytics behind it and there's reasoning behind it that, yeah, it reminded me not to just assume because that's a good reason to do it.

Are we worried about English?

It looks like he's a centimeter off missing five weeks with concussion, which I think it's unfair for me to say that.

It just feels that way that he gets a knock and he said, oh, please don't be in the protocols because he's so important to the Bulldogs.

When he's playing, they look such a different side.

I mean, their stats from last year, they were number one at everything around the clearance rate.

And they weren't fantastic at hit-outs, so that's not really their biggest strength.

But they've just dropped a little bit in that area this year.