Gerard Whateley

I mean, they've got the Giants, then they have Eagles at home and Richmond, and then they go and face Hawthorne and Collingwood.

So...

You know, in the next five weeks, I could see them taking, you know, three, maybe three and a half.

Could it get to four wins out of five, which would be – well, then the conversation becomes a bit of a slightly different approach.

You know, that'll be – you know, it could be eight – seven or eight wins out of your last nine, ten games.

And you're right in all conversations because no one really wants to play you in that form.

So Josh has got an intriguing position.

I think he would –

have clarity from people above that's what i do think i think he would have to have some clarity because he knows his role is interim and he's he's spoken about that at length so he's not hasn't as yet changed his mind if he wins four of the next five it might be getting a bit harder to not change his mind if he's um eight out of nine jared so um but the clarity from up above would be pretty important for the way they approach things because the

Honestly, the players will feed off the coach anyhow and what the coach's demeanour is and what the coach's output and outlook is, I think, is more important for them.

If he's selecting a side that would suggest that we're looking at a lot more youth and we're not in the actual win at the moment, we're actually looking for the future, well, the players will pick up on that as well pretty clearly.

The bigger challenge is the players who are...

who are in the club who are seeing that as a negative for them because they'll be, well, this looks like the end for me or it's time for me to push on.

So Josh's got a pretty delicate little situation too, albeit I would call it a free hit.

Yep.

A bit of a free hit with what he does.

There's not too many things that he has to –

Concerned himself with, but I think the major conversations when he talks players, that would be with Kripper and that would be with Sam Walsh, you know, the clear leaders of the footy club, you know, the captain for now and the potential captain for the future, you know, if that was to go that way.

And you'd suspect any change at Carlton with a new coach would include something along the lines of leadership, I would have thought, in the playing group as well.

So there'll be conversations going on with the two of the blokes who would be pretty critical to the now and the future.