Is the history of having one premiership a motivating factor?
AFL footy is about the business of winning premierships. There is not a club in the land that doesn’t want to win a premiership. I can tell you the past doesn’t curtail or influence anything we’re doing now. That is a long bow to draw. What we’re au fait with is the demands of AFL football and the preparation required on a weekly, daily and hourly basis. We haven’t got the luxury of looking backwards or looking ahead. We’ve got to stay in the present and do the work. To be honest, I’m not hearing the hype. I think the way the group and the club has conducted themselves, there is no hype. People who push that barrow and say that we as a club get ahead of ourselves and all those things have stopped because of the way we focus on the present and the hard work required. We understand 12-0 means absolutely nothing. All it means is that we’ve got 12 wins in the bank and we need to keep banking four points as we go, so our focus is on how to get those points.
