On Hugh Greenwood
He’s a good player. We did a lot of homework on Eddie [Betts], [Josh] Jenkins and [Tom] Lynch and they were serviceable but didn’t dominate the game. He popped up, he’s a good player that bloke. We’ll have to make sure we clamp him down next time. He’s good in the air and good at ground level. He’s slippery around the stoppages so I think he might have got goals from all those different scenarios tonight and we were unable to contain him.
He’s a good player. We did a lot of homework on Eddie [Betts], [Josh] Jenkins and [Tom] Lynch and they were serviceable but didn’t dominate the game. He popped up, he’s a good player that bloke. We’ll have to make sure we clamp him down next time. He’s good in the air and good at ground level. He’s slippery around the stoppages so I think he might have got goals from all those different scenarios tonight and we were unable to contain him.
On closing the gap
That was a high powered game tonight. That was finals like. We just had a poor patch, I reckon, for about 10 minutes in the second quarter where they got on top around contested ball and clearance, kicked four goals… just took the game away from us a little bit and then we were fighting to try and get back in it. Credit to them for that. But, you know, I look at it and go in 2016 Adelaide beat the Lions by 138 points and last year they beat us by 80 points and tonight they beat us by five points… they had a lot to play for tonight, so did we. Well done to them for coming out with it.
On Adelaide’s fast tempo
That was that fever pitch, that game. Funnily
We probably weren’t as composed tonight as we have been for the last three or four weeks. They tried playing an up-tempo sort of game, Adelaide, we got caught up in it a little bit. Even in the last quarter I thought had we shown a little bit more composure at times maybe we might have just got there.
