“I think a loss every now and then is actually a good thing. When you’re winning every week you can sometimes develop bad habits", Brown told hawthornfc.com.au.
"You’re not as desperate. You’re not as fanatical in your approach to winning the ball. You just think it will happen."
Brown believes the Hawks comprehensive loss to the Western Bulldogs in the contested possessions statistic will act as a spur for the team.
"A loss is a really good wake up call for us, and we can work on the areas now that over the last few weeks have just dropped away a bit and get that passion back.”
And just as coach Alastair Clarkson has been vocal in expressing his wish to see the Hawks return to playing a hard brand of football, so too is Brown.
“Our hardness around the footy has to improve. We were a little bit disappointed that we got beaten in an area that we really do well at which is our clearances and also the Bulldogs out-tackled us.
"They’re two areas of our game that we’ve really tried to work on and that we’ve really improved a lot over the last 18 months, so to lose those two key indicators it’s pretty hard to win games of footy.”
Campbell Brown’s full interview is available on the Hawthorn website.
