Ken Hinkley

There's a line that no one crosses, I don't think.

I think it's a performance game and that's what we work towards.

We had moments where there was names up on the board and we'd do what we could to stop them.

As I said, it was not unusual and it still wouldn't be unusual today to try to limit the impact of certain players.

And what parts of that, looking back in their history, because that's what you look back on.

You don't just look back.

when they played against you, you look back and go, okay, well, what did Chris Scott do to player X when Geelong played him?

If it's good enough for them to do, well, why can't, why don't we try and do something similar?

So you look at past experiences, you look at matchups and you look really closely into that.

You'll see that, you know, with champion data stuff,

that'll break it down pretty close to, well, there were 62 minutes where it was Gerard Whitely versus Ken Hinckley.

And we know what the disposals, the matchup numbers were coming out of that part of the game.

So we look at the strengths of the opponent and go, okay, well, what player best suits that person for us to take care and get the same sort of result?

But as I said...

Footy's a very funny game from week to week.

They don't necessarily follow the trends too well in performance.

Yeah, but we definitely spent time circling players on the board and highlighting what they needed to get to get their best performance and what we needed to do to restrict that best performance.

Ultimately, I took in that there's a better future for mental health.

That's what I took in.

And I didn't want to look back and reflect back onto who's done what or who hasn't done what when it comes to the previous game with Elijah involved in.