yeah just that just that hunger to to play regular regular senior footy was my goal um coming into preseason and um yeah I was just able to work on a few of my strength and a few my weaknesses as well just to to keep getting them better and um you been blessed enough to to be able to get regular opportunity which is nice [Music] what is it that you come in on Monday and who drives those standards that really makees sure when you come in on Monday you forget about what was on the week happened on the weekend and then reload and go again the next week yeah I think Scotty's really good for that and the way we run our program and um from from all the coaches and assistant coaches and even even executive team and the way we we come in Monday win win or loss um we're the same every week and we like to keep it consistent and rather than yeah as you said it's there's a lot of Flows In in footy and especially this year with ups and downs with every team so it's good to stay consistent and and just play our uh play our game and and train our way and we uh try to keep that way coming in Monday and it's uh it's really good for us I think how important is your Fitness how did you develop this area and what were the goals that you set yourself to make sure you were able to achieve that goal yeah especially with my rle as well as a higher forward or a Winger um being able to run is obviously a big uh needed needed a big strength of mine and um yeah it's just I try to work as hard as I can on that offseason and preseason when you can really work hard on it and so yeah you stay uh stay consistent and in good shape throughout the year and I feel like um yeah I've been building even during the season with just playing every week and getting used to the the load and the offl standard and the different sort of running so it's um I've been fortunate enough to yeah have a good opportunity there and then keep growing yeah obviously I did uh yeah my preseason in my first two years as a forward um but I just sort of came through conversation with Scotty and and Stephen King and rs and where they can uh play me best and and works my my strength and I think we have a few really good forward line and was able to um yeah go up to the wing and sort of still be another forward there and and play more forward side so probably just uh I adapted I feel like I've adapted okay and the coaches have been really good with me and uh being just talking me through it and and trusting me so and you spent the majority of your first two seasons in the vfl what was it like playing a lot of footy there getting your development going and then obviously taking the next step to the AFL as well yeah it was good to get that uh development the first couple years and and really build from year one to year two and then able to get my opportunity in the efl um more regularly in uh in in 2024 so it's been uh it's been good I learned a lot of my uh the two years playing yeah strickly of vfl pretty much and in a few AFL games in there but it's definitely good to build with a few of the young guys um playing in in that in that um [Music] [Music] League yeah I I did play a lot of uh basketball growing up and I had to choose that over 40 early on and then I think uh yeah I think I knew that I wasn't going to make the NBA in in v all and sort of made my made a decision to just come back and focus on my studies and then play footy with uh with my mates down at kry so um yeah it was honestly just to have fun and play with the mates and I sort of got lucky enough to uh yeah get to the cats and and uh I still try to play with that that fun and that and smiling every game and just just enjoy it because it's uh it's I'm blessed to have the opportunity to be um a footballer for my living so yeah I think um yeah we're all pretty focused and and switched on for the end goal of obviously winning Premiership and um we we try to um train like that like we're going to play and make it makes it easier for us on the weekend if we're training harder and we're all competing and D driven and all that stuff so it's uh it's been really good there's a few really good trainers like Tom Atkins leads the way or in with his with his training and we all sort of feed off those guys like that and Patty and shy so it's um yeah we're all uh try to go hard in training so it just makes it easier on the week in [Music]