Grant Thomas Quotations

There are people in charge to adjudicate the game. I suppose from the start of the game I was quite bamboozled, all the way through it to be honest.

If that means we have to play in finals for the next 10 years and we finally win one somewhere along the line, well, that's a s***load better than we've been in the past 100 years.

He is a tremendous player but he doesn't fit what we are about.

He's all about the St Kilda Football Club and puts that first and himself second.

He's just got to prove to training services that he's fit and available. We're really confident that he will be and he's really confident that he will be. We'll know by the end of training.

He's going through the normal process, he's had a bit of experience with these in the past, he's had a couple before and we'll see how he comes up.

I was in the mood where it should have been a long walk off a short pier, but I actually went for a long walk on a long road.

I suppose if it's one (injury) that is going to make him miss some time, yeah, I mean he's done a few of those, so that is something we have got to address, for sure.

You'd like to get Fergus in early in the year and he may even play this week against Collingwood - we'll wait and see - but he's the sort of player that's just crying out for an opportunity and I think we can find one for him.

To have a really good, close, tight contest like that is invaluable and if you could orchestrate it, that's the sort of game you'd orchestrate I reckon - a good hard tussle for the whole game and then to think it's over and then having to go again - that's priceless.

Tonight was far and away our best performance (of the pre-season and season) and we'd like to use that as a foundation for the future.

It would be very disappointed if tummy taps or whacks in the guts prevented players from playing in grand finals.

A couple of weeks ago I visited their (umpires') conference.

They've all pulled up OK, so no change yet.

It probably wasn't picture perfect, but we didn't want it to be, so we wanted to be accountable and if you're accountable, you don't get many spare players, but we were pretty happy with most parts of it.

It's probably looking most likely he'll miss one.

They'll just train as normal. It will just be a really sharp 30-minute session. We don't expect there will be any problems.

Once he's signed off he's able to play and I take that as if he's able to play anywhere.

The interesting thing is that Andrew Thompson has kept Blackie (Simon Black) to 10 possessions.

I have no concerns, actually I am a little bit bemused by all the attention. But, having said that, he's missed a couple of significant matches in the last couple of years.

Hopefully he'll come up this week, but no chances will be taken.

The emphasis is all about prevention and part of that process is to strengthen up the key areas -- shoulders and knees -- and making sure you're very strong through the hips and building a power base.