WIN, lose or draw, the coaches always have plenty to say as they dissect the game in the immediate aftermath.
Whether they just won a thriller or were on the wrong end of a hiding, the coaches' post-siren comments are compelling viewing.
See what your club's leader had to say in their post-match press conference.
Richmond v Carlton
Tigers coach Adem Yze: "You get a lot of belief in the things that've been training. We've trained a lot around our system, our method, but a lot around our mental mastery. So for our players, a young group, they've got to learn how to deal with momentum."
Blues coach Michael Voss: "It was pretty disappointing. Yeah, I'm not going to sugarcoat it. To be in the position that we were in early in the match and give up that lead and that position was – yeah, couldn't be more disappointed."
Hawthorn v Essendon
Hawks coach Sam Mitchell: "We had enough of a lead to be able to hold them off and we had some key moments that were important and in seasons like this you're going to have to win some games where you lose some stats, but it's not sustainable to keep winning in that style."
Bombers coach Brad Scott: "I thought in the second half we controlled big parts of it and the screen I looked at was flashing green on most metrics but the one I don't look at so much was the scoreboard and that wasn't flashing green."
Geelong v Fremantle
Cats coach Chris Scott: "There are a number of things beyond just the result that we were happy with, but I thought our ability to make it a bit harder for them to play their game with our pressure around the ball was right up there with the most impressive bits."
Dockers coach Justin Longmuir: "I thought their pressure was at a level we couldn't handle, and we couldn't apply the same pressure to them… their pressure was at a level where we weren't used to, weren't up to."
Sydney v Brisbane
Swans coach Dean Cox: "One thing that we're still aware of is that when we play our best footy, we're as good as any team in the comp. We've shown that against two of the best teams in the comp. We've just got to make sure that we do it for longer."
Lions coach Chris Fagan: "It was one of our great wins today, I reckon as a group. If you look back over what's happened over the last two weeks, we had an interrupted preparation for this game, obviously with the cyclone threat up in Brisbane, we lose Charlie (Cameron) before the game, Sam Day's dad passes away, and those two boys have been practicing in the forward line all summer, and then suddenly, two or three days out, they're not there. We lose Kai Lohmann early in the game and Starcevich in the last quarter."
Collingwood v Port Adelaide
Magpies coach Craig McRae: "We had our own internal dialogue of what we wanted to improve on ourselves and let others sit here or there judging us from afar. I didn't need to use it (the criticism). We have great pride in our performance and we took a step forward tonight."
Power coach Ken Hinkley: "Collingwood beat us the way they've beaten us in the past; they were too physical in the contest and then they were able to beat us badly on turnover. We looked like the team who didn't play last week and they looked like the team who had played."
Western Bulldogs v North Melbourne
Dogs coach Luke Beveridge: "Both teams squandered some opportunities, but to hold sway in that last quarter when there's a lot of fatigue in round one, it's a good sign for our lads."
Kangaroos coach Alastair Clarkson: "Pleased that we were in the game but obviously disappointed that we just gave them a little bit of a leg up at the start and couldn't reel them back."
Adelaide v St Kilda
Crows coach Matthew Nicks: "Our guys ... brought the fight that we were after. The challenge now is for us to do it week after week, but it's a great start."
Saints coach Ross Lyon: "I don't like to use excuses – it's next man up. Clearly we're a young list that gets a bit more vulnerable (with injuries) but that's the path which we've chosen. But we also want to be better than that."
Melbourne v Greater Western Sydney
Demons coach Simon Goodwin: "There's still lots to learn in the last 25 minutes of the game, but we did a lot right as a footy club. We walk away without the result, but we walk away emotionally as a club feeling like we're on the right path."
Giants coach Adam Kingsley: "We found ourselves in a pretty tough game, so to fight our way through that was really important. We think Melbourne's going to be a really good team so to compete with those guys, particularly at stoppage in the last quarter, after the third quarter was a little bit worrying, I was really proud of our effort."
Eagles' coach Andrew McQualter: "I would say they were incredibly sharp, and we were at the other end of the level. So that's why you get the numbers you get. When you go minus-40 in the contest, you're just not going to be able to compete, so that for us today started at clearance. Today was a really difficult day. We didn't get many of our phases right."
Suns' coach Damien Hardwick: "What West Coast have got to understand, they've got an absolute cracker [in head coach Andrew McQualter]. The players will get great growth and learnings. He's that sort of guy. They'll get a really good understanding and they'll get a hell of a lot better next week as well. He's a wonderful coach. He'll be fine and they'll be fine."
