Does such a prestigious award ring a bit hollow after a loss like that?
Yeah a few people said I played well, but it doesn’t mean much when beaten by 9 goals. It feels a bit hollow and I would feel much better about it after a win. Was it Collingwood’s tactics or our poor skills that had the bigger bearing on the match? To say our skills were poor would be underselling Collingwood. They certainly came ready to play and performed well, but in saying that we were well below our best. We just didn’t play our best even though we’ve played in a few other big games this year and we can’t use the big crowd and the intensity as an excuse. We just weren’t switched on. Did you have a laugh at Jack Anthony for those free kicks where he kept on pushing you in the head? I couldn’t quite work out why he kept giving away the free kick like that! We played terribly on Friday night but were still in it going into the last quarter. Is that some kind of positive that we can take away from it? Oh I think so, I was on the bench with a couple of minutes to go in third quarter a
