Brenton Sanderson

But, yeah, I've got the pies winning this one just.

Terrific to see you, Sando.

Yeah, they have.

And I spoke before about the importance of players enjoying their environment and smiling.

And I'm really close with a teacher that I work with who's a mad Bombers fan.

He goes to all their training sessions, goes to all their games.

He said to me over in Gather Round when they trained at Sturt in the captain's run the day before the game, he noticed the difference that the players seemed to be enjoying training.

They were smiling, but you know, this was on the back of four losses.

So it just feels like they're playing with more purpose now.

They're getting more inside 50s and that's on the back of...

of, I think, controlling the tempo of the game a lot more.

They took 139 marks against Melbourne and 98 marks against Gold Coast, but they're winning clearance again.

So they won clearance by eight against the Suns and eight against Melbourne.

They lost clearance by double digits in those first four games of the season.

So Parrish has stepped up.

Sardis looks better.

Caldwell's been good.

And the move of McGrath inside, his leadership is really showing through, I think, in that last sort of two and a half games.

But they're scoring from stoppage now, they're scoring from turnover, and they're scoring from the front half has doubled in those last 10 quarters that they've played.

So the intensity's back, the defensive system's back, and they've got their contest and clearance work going so much better.