Luke Hodge

It went round in circles of a nice placid and angry finish.

A little bit of open up saying that we're doing the same thing that we don't want other clubs to do to our players.

um but it is this is what this is what footy revolves around it's who goes where who's going to make their team better gold coast have successfully the last couple years have gone out and brought players into their football club that have made them better players but unfortunately gold coast over the years have had a lot of quality high draft picks being taken away because the lure to go to victoria to play the mcg or back to other states so

It's funny, but what I do know from Dimmer last night, he's all over the shop.

He's a bit angry, but also he sounds concerned as well.

We only had the one... In my opinion, he was the best player in the competition in Buddy.

So he was the only run.

We had other blokes that got touted or their names were mentioned, but not to the probably extent as what we had or we have at the moment.

And what we realised that it was affecting Bud's performance.

You probably look at a Humphreys very similar.

And we sat down with him as a leadership group and we had Clarko in the meeting as well.

But we run as a leadership group and just said to Bud, whatever happens at the end of the year, we want you to stay.

Understand if you want to go, because he had that massive, it was $12 million for six years or something that was touted from Gold Coast.

But we just pleaded to them and just saying, all we want from you this year is to commit to what we need to do.

We just lost the grand final.

We've got an unreal list.

We believe we can take that next step, but we need everyone pulling in the right direction.

And from that, Bud was outstanding.

It got to the last two games where he sacrificed his own role in the prelim against Geelong.

And then in the grand final, playing on Luke McFarlane, dragging him out of the Ford 50.