NEALE DANIHER'S COACHING REVIEW

"One of the big positives along with the dominance at the MCG must also have been the emergence of youth?

Encouraging signs came from the likes of Clint Bartram, Matthew Bate, Lynden Dunn, Matthew Warnock and Nathan Jones. What was most impressive was that we made progress even with introducing these new faces - sometimes when you do that you don’t move forward - but they got a taste of it, and that’s vital.

Unfortunately, we missed Brent Moloney. But we got a lot from Brock McLean and Colin Sylvia, all young players who absorbed a lot of pressure."

Too true - especially the bit about Beamer who I'm told has been looking extra special at pre-season training.

NEALE DANIHER'S COACHING REVIEW

"One of the big positives along with the dominance at the MCG must also have been the emergence of youth?

Encouraging signs came from the likes of Clint Bartram, Matthew Bate, Lynden Dunn, Matthew Warnock and Nathan Jones. What was most impressive was that we made progress even with introducing these new faces - sometimes when you do that you don’t move forward - but they got a taste of it, and that’s vital.

Unfortunately, we missed Brent Moloney. But we got a lot from Brock McLean and Colin Sylvia, all young players who absorbed a lot of pressure."

Too true - especially the bit about Beamer who I'm told has been looking extra special at pre-season training.

Those young players are the definitely the ones who need to step up in 2007 and a return to the Beamer of old would be important.