Phil Gould

And they're trying to get better.

But, you know, at the moment, we've got no alternative to that.

We've got to support those players.

And I think they're good footballers.

They're great Bulldog boys.

They've done a great job for us over the last few years, those players.

And we'll keep supporting them until something else comes along.

or until they improve, and I think they will improve.

Well, who are you saying underperformed?

No one's underperformed.

I think there are some players that… You've got to be careful about results and underperforming, all right?

So we've got a longer-term strategy with our salary cap at the moment.

We're working pretty much primarily on 2028 and what that's going to look like going forward.

We've been able to extend Kicker, we've been able to extend Crichton, we've been able to extend, we've brought in Tupinua, brought in Leo Thompson, two forward leaders and those sort of players.

At the end of next year, we've got Preston, King, Burton all off contract at the end of 27.

Mitch Woods comes off contract at the end of 27.

Hopefully he's been playing some football between now and then to give us an idea.

We've got Jacob Carras extended.

We've got a core group of players there that we've invested our future in, and then who fills in the positions around them either comes from young academy kids coming through, today's players who warrant new contracts going forward, or whether or not we need to go to the marketplace and pick up what we can't fill for the jerseys that we have in.

As the decades go by, the system will fulfil itself as it goes by.