Danny Daly

Well, I mean, I wouldn't go out of my way to support Italy other than the Italians are in the fish and chip shops here that I know locally and I would give them encouragement.

Look, it was a tricky old day in Hobart there, but Richmond came out with a great attitude and pressured us a hell of a lot.

But I thought in the third quarter we got our game going, especially out of centre bounce, which is such a key indicator for success this year, the centre bounce scores.

So the third quarter, no doubt, we played some good footy in the

The rest of the game was a bit of a grind, but we managed to get the four points, which was more important.

Yeah, we were a little bit disappointed in the first half just around our ball movement.

We thought our ball movement was a bit scrappy and I think North Melbourne had 19 forward half turnovers.

Sorry, Richmond had 19 forward half turnovers in the first half.

So that wasn't ideal for us.

So Faggs sort of had a bit of a chat with the boys about that and gave them a bit of a rev up and they got going.

Won the contested ball and got our ball movement going a bit, so we played a good brand in that third quarter, which was good.

Well, we certainly hope so.

I think...

We're not a club that makes excuses by any stretch of the imagination, but there's been a few things in the first half of the year which haven't gone our way for one reason or the other.

About three weeks ago, we had a little bit of a powwow as a footy department, and we sort of got back to...

You know, just having the attitude of going out and enjoying ourselves when we play footy, we're probably putting a little bit too much pressure on ourselves.

And the expectation about going again was there.

And I think we've freed the boys up a bit in the last couple of weeks.

The boys will have a four-day break now.

And I think when we get back, it'll just be about, you know, we've got nine games left.