Ken Hinkley

Every under-18s kid, they don't really know how to defend.

They don't.

It's see ball, get ball.

If you're a defender, you're an intercepting defender that knows how to rebound.

Or, you know, you might be good one-on-one with your craft.

But in terms of team defence, it's a tough skill to learn working through junior football.

So that's the hardest skill to teach that I found with the new kids coming through.

But when you've got 15 kids and you're trying to connect everyone on field...

It's bloody hard.

So you're better off just going, everyone find a man.

I think this is what Clarko started with this year.

He went away from the zone, the gap control, and it was just beat your man and leverage when he can.

And I think I see Geelong do that sometimes.

I see the best teams do it sometimes.

And then I see some really good complex team defence systems that most of these teams aren't ready for.

For what it's worth, I couldn't do it.

I couldn't get it right, Gerard.

You know, my last couple of years, we had such a,

really clean system.

And then all these kids started coming through and I was like, why aren't they doing this?