Luke Hodge

If you want to watch closely, you'll learn a lot.

Yes, I think so.

I think with the teams that they've lost to and how they've lost, but it's also that competitive side of things that it seems like they're getting back into it.

The midfield seems to be back a bit more hardened.

Defensively, they've been really sound of late.

They're offensive as much as they were really good on Thursday night.

Offensively, they need to be more consistent to really damage...

some some higher end teams but what i've seen of late with nice win against geelong and then what they did to the doggies even though they were on demand um i'd say a few adelaide crow supporters over there would have a decent smile on their face knowing what they're able to do at the back end of last year and that on that run home did it unsettle you with the dogs that performance on thursday night uh i was concerned early with their

There was no combative effort against them.

You saw what they did.

They had a pure hatred against the Hawks the week before.

And that was, we're going to get into their face.

We're going to show them what it is to play against the doggies when they've got that stern look.

They were going to scratch, bite, fight for every little touch they could.

And if Hawthorne player got in the road, well, bad luck.

You're a part of the play.

I didn't see that.

Selwood, where he was really into Watson, didn't see anything like that.

For the doggies players, if I was coaching, I'd go back and show them, this is what we did when we upset a really good top four team.

This is what we did to allow a team who finished top of the ladder but didn't win any finals last year run over us.