Andrew McQualter

I'm not going to share my secrets yet.

Yeah, the thing with the Pies is they've got guns everywhere on the field, so you've got to be careful of who you tag and how you tag, and I think you see that all the time with teams tagging Nick Dacos, is that they can just manipulate things.

They're so experienced that they can move pieces around, so we've got to be careful not getting too caught up in that as well.

They're a good, experienced team, and they can beat you in multiple ways.

Yeah, it's a good call, King.

I thought there was...

I thought the start of the last quarter, I thought Harley's physicality set the tone for us.

He had a huge couple of moments at the start of the quarter and it just permeates through the group when, you know, one of our real on-field leaders and best players set the standard like that and I thought Jake Waterman also had some huge moments amongst others in that last quarter.

So, look, it was great from a coaching point of view.

I loved coding that game back to be honest.

That was probably the best defensive game we've played under my time and I thought just our pressure was at a really high level and

That's something we're looking to replicate again.

Yeah, it has been a little bit of a challenge at times, and it's built some resilience in me and the group.

But we've had so much change in my 18 months at the football club, whether it's staff or players.

It's an enormous amount of change.

I know that you guys understand the position we're in now and what we're building, so we're really clear on what we're doing.

We've targeted the draft the last two years in particular, and we think we've brought in talent that is at the core of building a premiership list.

It's going to take some time.

You don't just turn a corner.

one day and you're out of this position.