Luke Hodge

They couldn't commit to my check, even though their biggest weakness this year has been their forward line, and they couldn't commit to my check because of the funds that Melbourne were offering him.

Whether they were leading some money there for King to come back to, Colin, because that was touted that he'd been speaking to them as well.

So it did scratch my head at their age...

And where they are list-wise, as good as Lockie Neal is, I don't think he'll get them straight back into a top four contender.

But who knows?

Obviously, they like what he's seen.

And everyone's liked what they've seen from Lockie this year.

His season so far has been as good as any.

What worries me the most for Gold Coast is the murmurings of the players are frustrated with the coaches, the coaches are frustrated with the players.

And that happens, but obviously when you have losses, that's where the cracks really open up and it starts to get a little bit worse.

And the worst part about it, people start to talk outside the football club.

When you're winning and things are going okay, things like that can be kept in-house.

And what I'll do there is I'll bring you back to what I mentioned about the Bud situation is if there's any issues with the football club, the biggest and the best way to sort those out is communication.

The leadership group should get into a room with the coach, the GM, possibly the other coaches.

And have an honest two-hour chat of where we are, what we need.

What is frustrating the coaches about the players?

And it might be some of the leadership group.

It might be some of the other younger guys that are coming through.

And on the flip side, what's frustrating the players from the coaches?

What do they want from each other?