Luke Hodge

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 row, 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.

And 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 with no we had no yelp at all so that's a little bit of maturity side of things for the dogs if you're going to be a top four team it's week in week out be nasty be the best you can be you can't pick and choose or else that's what's going to happen to you can you imagine the dogs without english we've sort of seen that and it looks terrible

Well, yes, you're spot on.

You've seen the dogs without English.

And I don't think if you're a list manager at the doggies, you're not letting him go because those stats, the win-loss of with and without their big Rackman, it's not impressive.

No.

What worries me the most for Gold Coast is the more that the murmurs 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.