Luk Hodge

All teams have weeks where they don't play great football.

And unfortunately for them, Geelong got a hold of them.

But the mindset, the maturity and understanding that it is a marathon, not a sprint.

is the fact that you regroup and sit back and they'll be at the football club pointing at some of the positives they did on the weekend.

But it's also, as I said before, it's the who can come up, who really wants to show that they're an AFL player, they can step up when the club really needs them because we've seen players get made of getting an opportunity like this.

Well, they played without him for a number of weeks last year.

So you sort of look back and you look at blokes like Aaron Norton and say, hey, mate, this is your time to shine.

You've been able to play some really good football with Darcy beside him.

But as we've expected, and we've seen you do it by yourself a few years ago, it's your time to step up.

It's now your forward line.

The responsibility comes on you.

And that's not the responsibility you've got to go and kick 10 goals to make up for Darcy and his goals.

It's a responsibility of leading, making sure whoever you bring into that forward line, Norton has to be the person who can teach them and guide them and just make sure that they don't have to do anything extraordinary for the guys that come up.

But as leaders, you've got to make sure that they're comfortable playing their role and they don't get overruled.

So unfortunately for the doggies, you've got blokes that are stepping up in the forwards, in the backs, in the mids.

It's a lot to cover over and just make sure that they're

the players that do step up aren't too overawed and it just will flow into the style of the doggies.

I...

I had the discussion with Kane Corns on Locked In prior to the game.

And the discussion I threw to Kane Corns was, who's had the best first 100 games?