Peter Johnston

So that's always a... And to get a win against, you know, a team that's above them, they hadn't done that up until this point of the season.

But the big thing, I think, from last year that's different as well, you mentioned the draw.

But Adelaide hardly had an injury last year.

They had Joshua Shelley who had a posterior cruise ship and he missed, I think, about 12 or 14 games.

Other than that, pretty much the whole year they went through with this consistency.

Now, I actually think that cost them in the end because...

towards the end of the season in those two finals and maybe a game or two before that they really looked tired they looked puffed out most of their guys had played about you know 22 games straight almost so and because initially they were trying to get in the top eight so they weren't managing players and then they had an opportunity to finish in the top four so they kept sort of pushing and not managing players and then they had an opportunity to finish in the top two so they kept playing their good players to get those opportunities but at the end they ran out of steam so

I just wonder this year, you know, they've had Keane, who hasn't played a game yet.

Curtin missed a heap of footy.

Hinge has hardly played.

Archie's been in and out, along with Phil Thorpe, who's been injured and missed and now suspended.

Walker, they've managed a bit.

So they've used a whole heap more players.

And I just think maybe come the end of the year, if you've had a whole lot of players who have played 15 or 16 games, they may just be a tad fresher than where they were last year.

No, no.

I've got a lot of belief in Brisbane.

I actually tip Brisbane.

I don't want to blow my own trumpet.

I heard Dane Zorko talking during the week and, um,

I could just tell there was some buoyancy in his voice.