“They are coming off a pretty big loss and if any game suits a team like North Melbourne, it’s this game against us - with those ‘backs to the wall’ type competitive messages to their players.”
“For us, it’s about consolidating all the things we’ve been doing over the last seven weeks - not just the last seven days - and hopefully building on that.”
Voss on North Melbourne coach Brad Scott
“Brad as a player was very team-oriented. He was very big on playing a role within a team and I’m sure that’s going to be a constant message from him to his players.”
“He also brings with him that same dogged competitive spirit he had as a player. He has all those attributes.”
“We’ve shared some text messages, some phone calls and made the odd poor attempt at trying to catch up. You always try to stay in touch, but it’s hard both for him and for me.”
“We’ve spoken a few times but when we do, we don’t talk about our own clubs too much. If we do catch up, the last thing we want to talk about is how our teams are faring. It’s more about what we’ve been up to. But unfortunately we don’t get too many chances.”
“Brad’s doing very well. I only have an external view on how his football club operates, but he seems to have made his own serious footprint on the club which is good.”
Voss on Brown and Fevola’s fitness
“They’re both good - really good. The boys pulled up very well from the game.”
“We’ll get some more training under their belts and those particular guys should gradually improve. You never expect those guys to go out there and train fully 100% - we always try to reduce Browny’s volume even when he is 100% fit.”
“We just have to be careful with how we monitor that.”
Voss on the performance of the younger players
“You look at that bunch of guys including Tom Rockliff, Daniel Rich, Jack Redden, James Hawksley, Tom Collier, Todd Banfield and Matthew Leuenberger and to get that type of exposure in a big game and perform on that stage is a really big win for them.”
“They gained some real confidence that they can match it against a really good opposition. Now they have to replicate that and maintain that consistency.”
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