Chris Newman

He'll have some

challenges today and we'll get around him and make sure that hopefully it's one for him to remember and his family.

Yeah, I was thinking that the other day, actually, the amount of players that are,

making their debut from the mid-season draft.

And I think that's a credit to probably the recruiting team that go out and retain these players or get these players into the football club.

They often take that into calculations.

If we bring this guy in, is he capable of playing straight away?

And a lot of these mature guys, when I say mature, they're sort of 20, 21, 22, maybe some of that experience in playing with bigger bodies

You know, you have trust to throw them straight into the deep end.

And some are through necessity, but some are just through trust.

And I want to sort of display some of the things that these or some of the attributes that these guys can bring.

I think it's great for the game.

I think it's exciting.

And it gives anyone, you know, with playing AFL aspirations, it gives them hope if they don't get drafted at an early age.

Yeah, that's a difficult conversation, I think, for some players.

But, yeah, it's cutthroat, isn't it?

Like, that's the AFL...

that's the AFL standard at the moment and it is a tough game.

Um, but yeah, as I, as I said, it's summer through necessity, summer through, you know, matchup based.

Um, but I think once, once they're into your football, football team, you, your arms around them and away you go.