Ross Lyon

It can.

But you can be losing games and you can still be improving.

I think they're getting better.

And I think they're trying to play a more, for want of a better expression, a more modern brand of football.

They're trying to move the ball a lot quicker.

They don't necessarily have all their pieces in place just yet, but they're getting improvement in some of their younger players.

They've got some really good, fast outside ball carriers.

And if they had – and it's a big if – but if they had Max King back in the side, somebody big –

capable to aim the ball to, then that is even going to improve their performance more, which might be enough to have them elevated to another rung on the ladder.

You do.

And you've got to be robust enough to accept that, okay, if you get into a press conference and somebody sends you to a Ross Lyon press conference, make sure that you're prepared and you've got all your ducks in line and you've got all your questions ready and

And you've got a response and you can back up your argument because he may test you.

There's enough evidence out there that he may test you.

I would say, though, that is not Ross's responsibility that an organisation sends somebody out there that's a bit green and hasn't been to a press conference before with Ross Lyon.

No, but I would imagine if it was a young kid.

Yeah, but that's your organisation.

You're either prepared to do a job or you're not prepared to do a job.

And if you're going to do the job and you're going to criticise coaches and performance and that type of thing, occasionally you're going to have to wear one coming back the other way too, which is all part of the cut and thrust of it.

Yeah, so I think from where we're trying to get to, out of the bottom reaches of the ladder or the middle or whatever you want to call it, I think five out of our first six opponents...

they've all been finalists, prelim, back-to-back premiers and finalists by one.