Alistair Clarkson

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

Um, yeah, the, the, the challenge is there for all clubs and the competition is these young kids come through, uh, the under ages that you need to teach them really, really hard.

The, uh, the discipline required to be really, really good defensive sides.

And we, we saw, we saw that last night.

Like, um, we, we probably, we probably knew that the dogs were going to be up for the fight, but with their inexperience, they just couldn't contain Sydney for the whole of the game.

They did a pretty good job for a quarter and a bit over a quarter, but, um, never going to be able to do it for 120 minutes.

Um, well, we, we, we can't cause if we take that away from him, um, I'm not sure he's that great a player.

Okay.

Um, it is most, his most significant strength, but I think what will, uh, what will happen with time, he'll, he'll develop a greater awareness of what's around him.

He'll get a little bit stronger, so he might be able to.

Um, just protect himself a little bit more in some of those situations, but gee whiz, take, take, take away his most significant strength.

Um, I'm just, I'm just hoping over the, over the journey, he'll gather with more experience, a greater awareness of when to go, when to protect himself, um, get a little bit stronger around the chest and the, and the, and the.

Well, it's not really my space.

It's more Todd and Brady Rawlings and that crew.

But, yeah, I'm not overly concerned with the concussion side of things.

I had about 20 myself.