Gerard Healy

Exactly.

Particularly when you're not flushed with great depth as it is anyway.

So you're so reliant on a key group of five.

And the key group of five aren't to the level that they were three years ago.

I used to think their best five was as good as anyone, but Wiedering's not that...

Cripps is not that anymore.

Walsh is still at a good level.

Mackay is not that anymore.

So, I mean, it's very difficult.

And then when you've made the decisions that they've made for the future of the list, which I think probably is going to age okay with Tassie coming in, provided they nail their draft picks and get the trade period and the draft right.

He was always going to have a difficult task this year, but it just can't be 1-8.

That's the problem.

At some point, you're going to have to win.

And you're going to have to win against teams that you should be beating.

St Kilda, you should be beating or at least highly competitive against these sides.

So no one expected them to go to Brisbane and win.

So that was a birdie last night, that performance, because of...

But it's when you come up against Richmond and St Kilda and Melbourne and Port Adelaide, these are the games that you're going to have to win.

And unfortunately, if they'd won three wins, it's a different conversation than you having had one-one in the way that they've done it.

But you're right, it does buy them a bit of time if they're going to be as competitive as that last night.