Summary
* Nervous or excited - can't tell the difference. Looking forward to playing Hawthorn. Just pleasing to see how we'll go against a quality side.
* There is no doubt our club is in a transformation phase. You bring in 14 new players and we have got new facilities and a new staff so it is a period of adjustment but one we have started and one we are going to continue to build on.
* The great thing about this group is their willingness to learn but they are still coming to terms with a lot of the stuff so it may take one month, six months, 12 months but eventually it will all click.
* It may look like an intra-club (laughs) as I'll certainly take some things from his time at Hawthorn but he's also take things from his days at Essendon and Port. There'll be subtle differences you will see.
* Expectations for tomorrow night - just wants us to be hard at the ball. Especially looking at our ball movement and defensively looking at things. Times we'll do it well and times we won't. A learning experience and a chance to test ourselves over the next 5 weeks
* Offensively the boys can play although decision making can improve. However defensively we were quite poor so it's something we've addressed over summer.
* Polak has exceeded Hardwick's expectations thus far given we and Polly himself weren't sure .
* Jon Ralph said Martin is dominating around stoppages pushing people off so the media are keen to see him. Hardwick though played a straight bat saying there's 5 other kids playing as well as Martin.
* Ralph said we'll get smashed tomorrow night against Hawthorn but as long as we play some attacking footy and play kids then that's the main thing.