Tim Watson

It was a positive.

I wasn't saying, oh, look, Freya are going to get this great advantage.

I'm saying that this is what should have happened.

I'm saying this is a fantastic thing for them.

They deserve it.

And it is the hardest travel.

You think we're stupid.

Do you think we sit here and go, oh, those Western Australians.

We're going to give it to them because we don't think that travelling's all that hard.

Well, you've been on a plane.

Oh, come on, mate.

You've flown across the other side of the country.

Well, I thought you were better than that.

And you've been embedded with Fremantle too, so nobody's been more complimentary about the Fremantle Dockers than what you have.

So let's be very clear about this.

The travel schedules of the West Australian teams, as we've spoken about many times, players that play, have long careers, that fly that route all the time.

We cannot be more expansive in our praise for the way they do it.

I couldn't do it.

I think it is a massive impost.

So the point is, the fact that charter flights have come about on the back of Johnny Ralph's article and then Simo alerted us to the fact that West Coast have been doing is absolutely the right thing that should happen for these West Australian sides to try and mitigate the challenge.