Once he's signed off he's able to play and I take that as if he's able to play anywhere. |
The emphasis is all about prevention and part of that process is to strengthen up the key areas -- shoulders and knees -- and making sure you're very strong through the hips and building a power base. |
The interesting thing is that Andrew Thompson has kept Blackie (Simon Black) to 10 possessions. |
There are people in charge to adjudicate the game. I suppose from the start of the game I was quite bamboozled, all the way through it to be honest. |
They'll just train as normal. It will just be a really sharp 30-minute session. We don't expect there will be any problems. |
They've all pulled up OK, so no change yet. |
To have a really good, close, tight contest like that is invaluable and if you could orchestrate it, that's the sort of game you'd orchestrate I reckon - a good hard tussle for the whole game and then to think it's over and then having to go again - that's priceless. |
Tonight was far and away our best performance (of the pre-season and season) and we'd like to use that as a foundation for the future. |
You'd like to get Fergus in early in the year and he may even play this week against Collingwood - we'll wait and see - but he's the sort of player that's just crying out for an opportunity and I think we can find one for him. |