Gerard Whateley

I'm not sure.

At the end of it, Ross Lyon, in a rare moment, wasn't quite sure what to make of it all.

And that was a bit from the, I was really looking forward to this game.

Yeah.

And it was a really poor game and I didn't feel like I learned anything about either of them to be frank.

other than that I learned more from the press conference than I learned from the game.

So Luke Beveridge has recognized that what they're doing is not going to see them play any role in this season.

So he's going to use this 20-day period with one game to retool them for when they're fully stocked, bar Darcy out the other side of the buy, to see if they've got a place in the scheme of things by playing differently.

If you took us back to the start of the season, you would say anything but the top four is a fail.

And then that they're nowhere near that team and the coaches recognized it.

Okay.

So the only way to play a role in this season is now to retool how we're playing.

So that, that was the biggest learning out of yesterday.

Not anything that happened on the field.

Would you play bunt in Iraq for the rest of the year?

No, but there was obviously a strategy to what he was doing from time to time.

A lot of boxcraft in what happened yesterday.

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