Scott on Team Selection...

It's always difficult when you play on Monday and you've got to name a squad on Thursday so as is our way, our policy is that if we think there's a one percent chance of a guy playing we put him in the squad. 

So, Jack Henry, I think it's reasonable to say it's very unlikely but he's in the squad because they're telling me there's a chance. Very small, but 'Dumb and Dumber' style, there's a chance. And it's a bit the same with a couple of others. But it's not unusual for us four days out from the game to be a bit uncertain about the health status of our players. 

We'll name another squad tonight [Friday] but then we'll still be 48 hours pre-game and that's always subject to change. 

Scott on Dangerfield...

Danger [is one of those]. He's just got a couple of corks right in the spot that had been worrying him. That obviously impacted him in the game. I'll take the advice of our medical staff, but again, they're saying he's a chance so he's in the squad. 

If we thought it was going to hold him up for even a couple of weeks we wouldn't play him. They were really confident last week that he was fine, and he was moving around well early in the game but he just got a knock on the same spot so all of those things will be considered when we decide whether he plays, but our coaching group has a very strong bias to not pressuring the medical staff.

So there are two parts to that. One is we have a low threshold for pushing a guy out there they're worried about and two, we give them as much time as possible to make that decision, so there's a chance that decision is made an hour before the game and we're fine with that. 

Scott on Ratugolea...

The preference is for him to get his injury really right and a lot of guys play with, say niggling ankles they can play with, but they would certainly be better in a couple of weeks if they took the time to get it even better. We're always in a race against time, so would 52 weeks be better, yeah it would but sometimes you've got to draw the line, so two or three weeks are going to be really good for him compared to bringing him back without having a week off at all.

Now, the reason we've put him in the squad in the last couple of weeks is if we get an injury to a ruckman he's available to play so that's likely to be the case this week as well, where he'll be in the squad, he's unlikely to play because we want to get his injury right, but if something happens he's medically clear to play. 

Scotty on Dempsey's Development...

We haven't decided what our final team is yet because we've got a few balls in the air but the fact that Ollie's in our squad speaks to how far he's come in such a short space of time.

A couple of years ago he was a basketballer. He played a little bit of footy at Carey Grammer although he didn't really decide that he wanted to play footy until recently and was plucked out of a few games of old boys footy. But to use the old cliche around the basketball players and the spacial awareness and things like that it looks like he's picked up what we're trying to do really quickly and he's performed well at VFL level.

The way that some of our young players, well, players across the competition, have been deprived of VFL footy has probably stunted their development a little bit but he's taken his chance to come in straight away and perform well. He will develop physically over the years obviously but he doesn't rely on his strength necessarily, he's a bit more of an elusive player, good skills for a guy that hasn't played much footy and a little bit of X factor about him. 

Scott on Jezza the Midfielder... 

It's a good debate internally. I smile because I enjoy the debate.

I'll put my position forward and you can go and hunt down the other assistant coaches... I think we're evenly split, or probably a little bit in favour of having him in there. I reckon if we ran our game like the NFL, and we had special teams we'd have him in every centre bounce, take a time out and then take a kick inside 50, we'd have him in the centre bounce and then we'd have him inside 50 for the entry, that's my rationale. He's very, very good at it. 

[We discovered it] through trial and error. For some reason, he was doing a few at training one day and the boys' said, 'that's hard to play against'. And that's one of the things that I hope keeps us fresh, we're curious. We've got a really curious coaching group at the moment and they've thrown up a few things that I've never heard of before and it keeps you on your toes.