Summary:
* Hunted instead of the hunter this year? A little bit new. Eye of the beholder. Depends on how you look on it. Our style is still of the hunter. Looking forward to the finals series.
* Finals has come at the right time. Been in a holding pattern and our footy has been clunky. Hopefully, it spurs us on to our best footy.
* Opposition tactics? Bulldogs took a high risk strategy as have other sides have tried (Geelong, Essendon). Thought we handled it okay.
* Don't care about playing Thursday night.
* Butler - 70 mins in VFL was the plan. Will probably be 50 mins. There's a risk as he hasn't played for a while. We'll weight up whether to play him in the VFL or if it's better to just play him in the seniors.
* Positivity of your coaching post-2016? Did you get it from the States? Yeah a bit. Normally a positive person but 2016 was a really bad year. Realised he needed his mindset to get back to how he was coaching his kids in underage sport.
* They replayed Lloyd's comments at the end of 2016 saying we needed to rebuild and Dimma's tactics were out of date. Dimma jokingly demanded an apology being premiership teammates. Lloyd said at the time he was right as we moved the ball very slowly.
* We went through a journey. You don't measure yourself by your success but by your bumps in the road (2016). We've made finals in 5 of the past 6 years. There's always going to be a bump in the road. Caro chipped in and said you didn't win a final in 2013-15 but Dimma said we still won plenty of games and twice 15 wins in a season.
* Got high end talent but also have very good role players (lambert, Grimes, Vlastuin, Rioli, Higgins, etc). Once they grasp that role they grow.
* Game doesn't know what you've done only what you're doing. After the premiership, we wanted to be a hungry side. Lead by our leaders in Cotch, Rance and Jack.
* Rance's comments on Lynch? Do you want players commenting on recruiting? Ignoring Tom Lynch (see wayne's post on what Caro said), players will always be involved in bringing in talent. We want our players to have their opinion and not always follow the company line. If you don't allow that then you just have a group of yes men and you don't improve.
* Number of players out of contract this year is pretty standard. We need to shuffle things to fit within our cap which gives us the opportunity to chase a free agent. Those guys understand the process and a number are in our best 22.
* Believes clubs we need to break the soft off-field cap in the near future to keep good staff. Having said that it's exciting to bring in new people.
* Learnt a lot from Clarko and looking forward to the game. Their girls played netball together tonight so it was a frosty night (laughs).
