Luke Hodge

His season so far has been as good as any.

What worries me the most for Gold Coast is the murmurings 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.

And what I'll do there is I'll bring you back to what I mentioned about the Bud situation is if there's any issues with the football club, the biggest and the best way to sort those out is communication.

The leadership group should get into a room with the coach, the GM, possibly the other coaches.

And have an honest two-hour chat of where we are, what we need.

What is frustrating the coaches about the players?

And it might be some of the leadership group.

It might be some of the other younger guys that are coming through.

And on the flip side, what's frustrating the players from the coaches?

What do they want from each other?

Because unless the coaches and the leadership group can understand where each other are at, that can then flow into the rest of the players.

And if you get buy-in from coaches, if you get buy-in from the leadership group,

You get buy-in from the rest of the group because that's just the peer pressure that happens in a football club.

That's what we talk about, leadership from the top down.

The other concern with the players, sorry, the coaches there is that almost there's a little bit of entitlement to the list that they should be doing more.

You've got high draft picks.

I'll look through.