Luke Hodge

We only had the one.

He was, in my opinion, the best player in the competition in Buddy.

So he was the only one.

We had other blokes that got touted or their names were mentioned, but not to the probably extent as what we had.

or we have at the moment um and what we we realized that it was affecting bud's performance you probably look at humphries very similar um and we sat down with him as a leadership group and we had clarko in the meeting as well but we we run as a leisure group and just said to bud whatever happens at the end of the year we want you to stay um understand if you want to go because he had that massive it was 12 million for six years or something that was touted from gold coast

But we just pleaded to them and just saying, all we want from you this year is to commit to what we need to do.

We just lost the grand final.

We've got an unreal list.

We believe we can take that next step, but we need everyone pulling in the right direction.

And from that, Bud was outstanding.

It got to the last two games where he sacrificed his own role in the prelim against Geelong.

And then in the grand final, playing on Luke McFarlane, dragging him out of the Ford 50.

So he sacrificed because of the commitment that he made to us.

And at the end of the year, we got a premiership medal because of it.

That's the only real experience that I've had where we've had to sit down with someone.

I understand Gold Coast have a number of players and a lot of clubs do have a number of players.

Brisbane have two as well.

But I think the only way you can get on top of it is it's as simple as communication.

And I think that's one area that

It doesn't happen in the outside world in business, I can tell you that.