Carl Dilena

I was giving Lenny Hayes a bit of stick saying, you know, since he's been in the role, we haven't won a second half.

But he put that to rest on the weekend where they kicked 15-1 after halftime.

So dominant display, which is great to see.

I think there was a lot of effort being put in.

You know, perhaps we could have had a bit more reward for effort with a couple of games like with Collingwood and the Crows.

So, you know, those games that went either way but were just on the wrong side of it.

So I think it's coming together.

It takes a while when you have new players in to build that cohesion.

You have a few tweaks to the game style.

So I think it's starting to build.

There's some really positive signs.

Yeah, it has been a strange start.

We were really happy with having the opening round game and the time slot with Colling, which was just a huge start to the season and a record home and away crowd for the Saints.

So that was a fantastic way to start.

But yeah, then it's been a bit disjointed being at Adelaide for a couple of weeks.

playing some tough opposition and interstate opposition in the Alliance and the Eagles.

So it's been a bit of a funny start for us, a tough one in terms of last year's finalists.

But as we get through that now, we get perhaps a little bit of a better run before a little bit of a travel challenge mid-season.

But the vagaries of the draw, the fixture, you've got to cop it sometimes.

Yeah, I know.