Lade was just on SEN with Hartford ...
* Players are a bit sore as they are at this time of the year but we hope to win our last two games and finish off the year well.
* We came into the season with no set number of wins in mind. More about development and getting games into the young players.
* We are pleased with our list management. Getting games into Farmer, Conca and Vickery. Working on our structures.
* Got to keep up with the times and keep ahead of the game. So we have made slight changes a couple of times during the year.
* What happened in the 3rd qtr? We were losing the stoppages, losing the tackle count,... almost everything. Needed to batten down the hatchers and get their minds back on the ball. Lade was on the bench but he said Dimma was fairly heated in the box.
* These days clubs try to get the leaders to take control on the ground. St Kilda do that well. We have a young list so that can be difficult at times but we try to get our young leaders to lead. We send out messages onto the ground in the 3rd quarter. We were able to turn it around in the last.
* Newy has been running laps today. May/could come back for the last game. However we won't rush him as there's no point rushing him back for one game when we aren't playing finals.
* Don't have many mature blokes to learn from so we try to get the young leaders to learn off each other. Cotch can learn off Lids for example. Lade said he's sure Cotch could be captain one day.
* Lade is part-time ruck coach and full-time midfield coach. Rucks take a fair while to develop unfortunately unless they are freaks like Naitanui and Leuenberger. Ours are still only 23 and 21 and are now starting to learn more about the game. The other Derickx broke his ankle sadly. Hopefully next year he can play some games for us.
* Basically Lade said we'll look to who's around over the offseason but hopefully our 3 rucks can take us forward next year if we don't find a ruckman in the offseason.
* Sad to see his old club Port in the state they are in and losing by big margins. They are rebuilding and it's not a great time to be rebuilding with GWS and GC coming in. They'll be trying to hold onto Trengove, Carlile and these guys.
