Isaac Smith

Really good.

Happy with it?

Yes, very good.

Strong.

Good start.

And on the Deadset Legends as well.

I heard it on DSL.

Well done, Daisy.

Yeah, I think there's no doubt that he's down on confidence for sure.

And I think that had been spoken about within sort of the media and Essendon a little bit.

I think Brad Scott touched on it at times in his post-match presser when he was questioned about it.

I think you can look at this sort of two ways, I think, and so can Ben.

You can see it as an opportunity to go back and get some confidence.

Like you've got the opportunity that...

if you are at the level that you should be at when you're playing VFL, it should be an opportunity for you to really start to feel like you're a leader out there to start with and lead with those actions.

So you get the opportunity to do that to start with and also to reflect and think of the things and go back to really the things that you're really, really good at and start to execute that and get the feedback on what it is that you need to improve on and try and get that right.

We've seen so many times at this point in players' careers that

Going back to VFL can go one of two ways.

It can be, we don't see them again in the senior side or very rarely, or it flicks a switch.

They get their confidence back at that level for a few weeks and then they play some really good football when they come back into the AFL.