On last week's result

"We reflected on the game and reviewed the GWS game like we would any other game. Obviously what worked well certainly in the first half and the second half, how we need to improve in those areas.

"...From there it's about making sure that we get [the players] ready for this remaining block which is four weeks and there's still plenty to get out of it."

On the injury list

"Both Joel's wouldn't have got back no matter what. Then Logan was more about building him to a stage where he would have played a half of VFL this week maybe, and was never going to play an AFL game for the remainder of the season.

So for us it's a decision to make sure that we'll take a short step back to make sure that he can still train for the rest of this season, get his ankle as well as it possibly can get so he can have a really strong off season to lead into pre-season. Half a game of VFL versus a sustained training block, that's the better option."

On "playing for futures"

"I think there's always players who are out of contract and players always doing that, and one thing you want to make sure that no matter what level you're playing at you're trying to perform the best way you possibly can and that's no different. So players that are contracted and also un-contracted, we need to play as well as we possibly can for these four weeks."

On second-half performance

"What you do find out is that if a couple drop away, and you don't need to drop away too far, but that slight drop off... momentum in certainly a lot of sports at the minute is really prevalent. So it's about trying to halt that and then get that intensity back first to minimise the damage that they can do.

"We need to work on it, we spoke about it and the remainder of four weeks is a chance that when sides get momentum we need to do some things differently."

On Dane Rampe's future

"We speak to Rampe regularly about how he's going and that's more about the short term. How's he going, how's his body, what training loads do we have to do, how are you pulling up from games? We still know what Dane can do as a footballer and that's really important but from when you're 35 or the age that he's played at this football club for a long period of time we'll continue having conversations and then we'll address at the end of the year what exactly that looks like."

On Tom McCartin's concussion

"He's been really good, and that 12 days becomes really tight. He's done everything we've asked and get through today's training, do that well, pull up well later on this evening and tomorrow morning and if he does that he's ticked every box and will be available to play."

On Jesse Dattoli

"He had five months where he wasn't doing anything and obviously we know Jesse's got a huge amount of talent, but for us it's about making sure that first of all he's performing well which he's doing at VFL level. You don't want to just give a kid an opportunity if they're not ready. So that's what we're talking about every week we do that. He's improved his performances which has been really pleasing.

"Now it's a matter of can he withstand an AFL game and we'll continue to talk through that this week, next week, the week after. He's got talent we know that and how quickly he can come in will determine the next couple of weeks."

On Cox's reflection of the season

"No, it'll come later. My job is to make sure I can get this group as prepared as I possibly can for this week. One thing I'll reflect, you certainly try and do it briefly but you'll have a good reflection at the end of the year about things we need to work on, what I can improve on. There's plenty of areas that need growth and that'll come with the end of the season when that happens."

On Errol ahead of his 100th game

"I think on the field, off the field he does whatever he possibly can to be the best footballer. His preparation for a young player is as good as I've seen. He works as hard as the best players do and that's why he's had so many of those individual achievements in the first part... It's been a pretty special 100 and hopefully there's another special 100."