Alistair Clarkson

It hasn't.

We've got a set of standards that we expect, and Kirch was the first one that knew that he'd fallen below the standards.

And that's when we talk about, you know,

It just, it just gets blown away out of proportion.

You just did it then, fist to the chest.

How would you describe it?

I understand.

It was just contact to the chest, but it's not a, it's not a fist to the chest.

It's just that things get blown out of proportion.

It's just like, this is the, the main confrontation was around the standards and looking one another in the eye and say, that's not to the level that we want.

Um, but the, the actual physical contact was that minor that it's just like nothing, nothing, nothing to say.

And that's why, that's why Kurtz didn't.

rally, um, because he knew that what, what, what we're after and what we're chasing is, is high standards, world-class standards, and that fell well below what we were expecting.

And, um, and whether it's Kirch or, um, or, or Larks or whoever it is, they're, they're the standards that we're chasing.

And, um, when we're really strong around those, that's when we'll start climbing the ladders.

Oh, we had to.

You know, the game was telling us that we're leaking far too many goals.

But the really big challenge for us as a club and for the game itself as these kids are coming through juniors is they focus very, very little on defence.

You know, a lot of them are high draft picks and particularly midfielders have done very, very little on defence because they haven't had to because they've been such good offensive players and ball winners.

So