Stephen King

I know in some sports the captain can approach the umpires, but that being said, I'm probably like every footy fan and person waiting for an explanation as to how you can take one person's word over another.

There's apparently no evidence other than what one person said versus what the other person said.

So how you form a conclusion based on that is totally beyond me.

It's a reward for all the effort because when you're putting in the effort, the effort that I see behind the scenes, the work that goes on throughout the week,

When you're not getting some reward from the result and the scoreboard, it can be challenging.

And we work really hard on sort of separating the result from the process, but the reality is after a while you need some reward for the effort.

So I was really pleased for the players first and foremost to get that reward, but also for our fans who have been through really difficult times.

So, when you're getting beaten around the ball, you're not quite as sharp as what you have been.

You're sort of chasing tail a bit and

So in a way, there's never a positive out of it, but we get to have a bit of a deep dive into our game and a few conversations as a group.

And then we get to go and train it and improve on it.

So for me, these performances are going to keep happening at times.

We'd love them to narrow the gap between our best and our worst, and that's what we're trying to do.

Yeah, I think when the contest doesn't go your way, it makes the game pretty hard.

Not a reality check.

I think we've had a pretty emotional month.

We've had some milestone games.

We've had some come-from-behind wins.

I...

And our history against Essendon over in Adelaide wasn't great.