Patrick Dangerfield

Well, touchwood, Cain, yeah.

I think...

It was probably I was at fault early for trying to push through a calf injury that I shouldn't have.

So I'm still not learning after 19 seasons of AFL footy.

But yeah, I think our approach from a physical performance side of things is really well set up for our older players.

Obviously, our staff have a lot of experience with older players and how to manage them.

And sort of regardless of who you are or how long you've played, we're always mindful of

you know, the best way to, you know, work through a season that takes six months to, you know, to finish.

So it's one of the longest in world sport and you really want to be peaking at the right time that's September.

But you want to be able to also accrue the wins along the way, which is important to give yourself the best chance.

So I feel like, you know, we're well placed and we've got a really professional staff that understands sort of the requirements of AFL footy.

Definitely Origin, definitely not Carlton.

You know, I nicked my calf in the last two minutes of that Origin game and it went...

I can't remember how long it was at the time, but it went so much longer than any normal game.

I think the thing to probably look back on as a league is just the reduction of how long that game is, particularly with how intense it was obviously going to be with the quality of players that were playing.

I didn't think it needed to be sort of 25 minute calls.

I think it was.

We could just keep it at 20.

So I think if it was that, then that would have helped.

Certainly would have helped me.