Rodney Eade
Rodney Eade
Rodney Eadeis a former Australian rules footballer and the current coach of the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League. He is a former coach of both the Sydney Swans and the Western Bulldogs. He has, to date, coached 336 games of AFL football, placing him first on the all-time AFL/VFL list of most games coached without a premiership...
change confidence difficult games last peter played round unlucky week
Peter was unlucky not to play in round one and then it has been difficult to make a change since, but he will play this week in the ruck and we have got confidence in him because he played well in most of the last 10 games last year.
best hopeful last minute run sure till
We're not too sure yet, that he'll have his first run today. I think the best way to put it is that we're hopeful he'll get up so we'll give him till the last minute and see how he goes.
They will probably be right this week, I would think.
backbone credit exceeded form future gentlemen great players
These two young gentlemen have exceeded all expectations as players and are really going to form part of the backbone for the future and I think it's a great credit to them.
bit doubt gets night premier seems sure
I'm not to sure about the figure, but there's no doubt when you look at the premier who gets $250,000 and the night premier gets about $220,000 which is about the same - (it) seems like a bit of an inequity.
future hopefully leader player
We see him hopefully as a 200-game player for the Bulldogs and a future leader for us as well.
foot injuries six three
The three injuries we've got long-term are all over six foot five.
aim finals next rounds sooner year
Our aim next year is to make the finals and the sooner we can do that during the season, like at Rounds 18 or 19, (the better). Then we can we can re-assess our goals.
car needed straight
I just thought he needed to be down here for his son. He got in the car straight away.
board brad chance committee imagine match scholars-and-scholarship talk
I haven't had a chance to talk to the match committee or the board at this stage, but I would imagine Brad would take the captaincy.
good might occurred wants
He's such a good kid. He just wants to do the right thing. It wouldn't have occurred to him that there might be a problem.
far scholars-and-scholarship year
He's probably a 20 year old really as far as his development.
four playing points
If we were playing for four points this weekend, he would probably play.
couple operation swelling weeks
We'll give it a couple of weeks for the swelling to go down and he'd probably have an operation at the end of the month.