A couple of weeks ago I visited their (umpires') conference. |
Bally has got all of the qualities. |
He is a tremendous player but he doesn't fit what we are about. |
He's all about the St Kilda Football Club and puts that first and himself second. |
He's going through the normal process, he's had a bit of experience with these in the past, he's had a couple before and we'll see how he comes up. |
He's just got to prove to training services that he's fit and available. We're really confident that he will be and he's really confident that he will be. We'll know by the end of training. |
Hopefully he'll come up this week, but no chances will be taken. |
I have no concerns, actually I am a little bit bemused by all the attention. But, having said that, he's missed a couple of significant matches in the last couple of years. |
I suppose if it's one (injury) that is going to make him miss some time, yeah, I mean he's done a few of those, so that is something we have got to address, for sure. |
I think it's very, very close. |
I was in the mood where it should have been a long walk off a short pier, but I actually went for a long walk on a long road. |
If that means we have to play in finals for the next 10 years and we finally win one somewhere along the line, well, that's a s***load better than we've been in the past 100 years. |
It probably wasn't picture perfect, but we didn't want it to be, so we wanted to be accountable and if you're accountable, you don't get many spare players, but we were pretty happy with most parts of it. |
It would be very disappointed if tummy taps or whacks in the guts prevented players from playing in grand finals. |
It's probably looking most likely he'll miss one. |