jenny61_99
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- Thanks for the support to the crowd for the year, for farewelling the guys tonight - made it one of the special nights tonight. Never seen anything like it at AAMI. Also for their stickability throughout the year. Thanks also to St Kilda for staying on to show their respect.
- In response to a question from Rucci: We've seen in the last month a level of effort that we should expect more. But over the year we've got to ask the question, got to rate the year. It's been a year of under performance. There'll be some good things to come out of it, well we already know what they are. But we need to get our squad healthy again over the break so that we don't enter the season you know with 12-13 on your list injured and to just try and play a season like that is just too difficult. It creates too much heartache for our supporters so we've got that job ahead of us.
- What is the greatest challenge?: That we need to get our squad back together. To continue to try and play that sort of football with limited numbers is a very difficult exercise because it tests your depth and I mean if we had to play again next week without Symes and Johncock, I'm not sure where we'd go with all that, so that will be our challenge. The last 4 weeks have been a similar little block to what we had mid year and that just demonstrates to play that sort of football but the consistency will be our biggest challenge. We'll still going to be a very young side but I think we've given our supporters some hope.
- In response to a question how St Kilda played in last quarter: didn't see a sense of urgency to score, reduced the work rate just to get through the game. Can understand that. Would like to have been in the same position, wish I had the opportunity - when you don't play finals you don't have the choice.
- Brodie Martin was very good. Should give him great confidence to to have played AFL again and to finish with that quality of game should give him confidence to push for a regular place in the side over summer.
- (Another question from Rucci): Lot of adversity throughout the year, really tough year for our whole football club. So I think that our playing group being able to keep strong after the first 6 games, and then to be able to reload half way through the year to play the next 8 out of 10 games that we were really happy - really difficult exercise to do after a poor start to the year. We received a lot of criticism throughout the year (warranted) that you need to be able to deal with and push on. Support group had to remain strong had to show up in numbers still [think this was a jibe at Port supporters] - they feel as much pain as we do.
more soon.... (didn't realise it went for so long!
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