Luke Hodge

So I wanted to give those guys a chance.

I think Kelsey is going to be the person to come up.

But I'm looking forward to Will finally getting his opportunity because he's got a bit of athleticism for a big boy.

Uh, Harley reached out, um, through, um, Alex Witherden, uh, last year.

So when he was in Brisbane, we were supposed to catch up, but my, I had my son's, um, grand final on sport and I was supposed to be on team afterwards, but everything got pushed back with all the presentations and I had to cancel on him.

So he, uh, he has reached out to have a chat.

I am heading over to Perth, uh, late May.

Um, so if the, if the, if the diaries align that I might be able to sit down with them as a payback, but he has reached out, but,

I feel his pain.

There's stages where he's showing a lot of maturity with the way he plays football, but then there's obviously that young guy in him who still... He used to push and shove his way around in junior football and get away with it.

Now...

Teams are picking at him as a 20, 21-year-old, which would be frustrating.

I showed the same frustrations as a kid as he has.

So there's different tactics that he can try to get away with, but also there's a little bit on his team as well.

He needs a lot of help from those senior players just to sort of give him a little bit of a chop out.

There are certain things that you've got to look at.

Because if I sat down, I would show them what I did and how it does hurt the team and the culture and all the other stuff.

But it's also, you've got to open your eyes that as soon as you do it once, guess what?

One person's going to see it, then the team's going to see it, then the next team's going to see it.

All of a sudden, you've got the whole side targeting you in a certain area.