Josh Jenkins

So if you're trying to play that type of footy and you've lost momentum, that momentum can springboard back the other way and hurt you doubly on the scoreboard.

So finding that right balance.

Now, clearly, football is geared towards taking the game on and playing with pace.

Absolutely.

And the AFL, in the introduction of certain rules, have wanted that.

And the teams who have been...

personally more equipped to deal with that are probably the teams that have had the more success so far.

But Fremantle's ability, JJ, now sometimes they go too far the other way, which was a conversation in previous years, but they have been able to find the right balance.

when things don't necessarily go the way they are playing a certain way, they're able to just temper it off a little bit and gain control of the ball.

And that's probably, as you touched on, the major concern on a couple of teams, but most certainly the Giants.

And that is probably what cost them, JJ.

In 2024, when they had the Swans absolutely done in that first final, and then they got beat, and it was an Isaac Heaney masterclass in that last quarter, so that's one thing.

And then the week later, they had a seven-goal break over the team that won the flag.

They had a seven-goal lead at home, and all the momentum, and had they been able to maybe take it off for 10 or 12 minutes, not go too far and play incredibly negative football,

I'm not going to say they would have won the flag, but if they beat Sydney in that first week, they end up in a grand final probably and the momentum would be very hard to stop.

So that right balance is something I think that is well spoken about and understandably on the money.

The issue is too,

They have been so great.

Like, they learnt from the Gold Coast Suns with the way Gold Coast went about it.

They went about it differently.