Gerard Whateley

When you're lucky to be at a footy club for a long period of time and you coach a lot of players for a long time, it's a hard thing to do when you get to that last part and you have to –

Ask them to consider not playing any longer because they just love playing.

Yes, yep.

All right, the art of coaching for Craig McRae in the next phase.

And then there's Sam Mitchell.

So the Hawks have only won two of their past six.

The loss to the Bulldogs looked even worse after what we saw Adelaide did to them, and particularly where you consider where they were at halftime.

So I feel like Sam would have had a fair bit of ammunition when he got his group back together.

He doesn't need much ammunition, I don't reckon, Mitch.

He doesn't mind having a crack at the best of times.

But, Gerard, they've got a draw that's really, really, really, really exciting if you're a Hawthorne supporter.

You know, if you can get some things done in the next three games, because the next three games, you know, they're not the hardest three games, but they're challenging threats.

Suns up at Gold Coast, which is going to be really, really challenging based on where the Suns are at more than the Hawks, I would have thought, and coming out of the bye.

And then they get Giants at the MCG, and then they go down to Tassie to play Melbourne.

After that, they go Carlton, Richmond, Essendon, North Melbourne, Lyons and Collingwood to finish with.

That's a real opportunity.

I mean, you know, one week at a time.

Well, I've just done nine weeks at a time for Sam.

But Sam's just got to get the fire in the belly at the right levels every week.

I think they've been – they're not –