AFL Rd 5 2022 Post Game Carlton vs Port Adelaide

[Baggers]

Don't worry about the fitness guru. He has the runs on the board at Hawthorn. The game style is extremely difficult aerobically and takes games before you can fully adapt to it. Fitness isn't black or white it develops and gets better.

Spot on.

Seems to me that The Terrier has a full season approach rather than an early peak, plus players getting used to a game plan that asks more of them, physically, plus overcoming the psychological hurdle of so much losing over previous years.

Coming along gradually, though, of course, not as quickly as we supporters would like ...but creating solid foundations that endure, takes time.