Tough result what were your thoughts coming out of that one?

Really disappointing, we started the game well and played the brand of footy that we wanted to play and had a strong breeze that was going to our side of the ground. After the first quarter there was a number of things that went wrong. However you’ve got to pay full credit to Hawthorn, they had a crack tonight for the full four quarters and obviously they got the win.

Did the weather play a big factor in this game?

There was a number of things that contributed to the game. When Hawthorn had the breeze they seemed to score all their goals and when we had it the ball stayed in our front half. We needed to get back into the contest and really difficult coming into three quarter time and there was 19 to free kicks to six against. We needed to get a few more, there was a memo sent out during the week about sling tackles and we don’t pay them, so we need to look at that. There was a number of things that we could of done better as a team but so should others.

After a tough first quarter the team did seem to bounce back were you happy with their second half performance?

I think it comes down to effort and intensity around the footy. We thought in patches we delivered, we also thought in parts we got beaten in that area. We changed things up in that last quarter and didn’t put any numbers behind the ball and we tried to run and carry the ball a bit more. We outscored them in the second half but really the damage was done from the second quarter. We had a couple of undisciplined free kicks where they were able to capitalize and hurt us.

Emma Swanson led be example for again. How crucial is it to have her playing like she does when you come down to the wire like this?

She’s been outstanding for us all year. She’s an outstanding leader and we had a few out there tonight that needed to follow her lead.  She’s driving the group and our club really well at the moment and the team is benefiting from her effort on and off the field.

Two back-to-back losses that have come down to the wire. What is the main message this week going to a home game against Richmond?

I think the main thing for us is we’ve got to learn from what has happened. Whether we were up in the contest and needed to save the game or whether we were down and we needed to win. We’ll go back to Perth and look at that game heavily and that last quarter in particular and identify things that we should of done and could of done better. But I thought we fought right to the end especially going into the breeze in that last quarter. We just didn’t give up to the end, we just didn’t get there at the end of the day.