Luke Hodge

starting to skip on the bench probably wasn't the ideal time.

Maybe if he did need two rotations, maybe give him the first five minutes in there just to get the tempo of the game, have the stoppages go on their way, and then maybe give him a six to ten minutes off and then maybe take him off from 20 to 25 minutes.

Because what we saw, when teams get a spray from their coach, it can lift them.

And if you look what Dawson was able to do, they go out there, they win the first five or six clearances.

They got the first four or five goals on the board.

And then Kripper gets back on and there's six minutes gone in the second quarter.

So I can understand why they tried to do it.

But on the flip side, maybe study Skipper, your best stoppage player, probably in the competition, on the ground at that when it's really hot at the start of the quarter.

I don't think so because we've gone past that of a skipper saying, I need to be here, especially early on in the game.

Because what you're trying to preach to your players is it's an even workload.

I'm no more important than you.

You're no more important than me.

And we need other people to take responsibility.

So what Carlton could go back as a leadership point of view this week and go, well, who stood up?

So your skipper's on the bench.

who out of the guys who rotated through that midfield in the first five to six minutes of that second quarter, what did you do and what will you do different next time when Cripps isn't there?

So you can take it as a learning chance for these other guys because Cripps is not always going to be there.

And what they need to start to do moving forward is throw these young guys in there and have responsibility to own that stoppage and not let five clearances come out straight in a row.

You need to change up your stoppage.

They'll figure out who was talking, who wasn't talking.