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I saw the term "desire indicator" thrown around by rohan bail in a post match interview on the MFC website. Seems as though the team are being asked to focus heavily on those 1%ers and acts that appear to reflect desire for the contest. From our post match interviews (Bail, Bate & Neeld to a degree) it seems like internally we're pretty happy with the level of effort / desire we're putting in latley. On the other hand you have Roos and others saying that our players "dont want it as much as other sides" or "it doesnt mean as much to them" etc. I think the guys are all trying pretty damn hard. They've been drilled all preseason about contested posesion and clearances and havent been too bad in this department. Where i do think we need a big lift is in desire to get to the next contest. Seems to me that so much education and schooling has gone into the stoppage itself that the next piece of the puzzle has been neglected? Perhaps the run and spread and reading of the play is a aspect which is harder to teach (more reliant on "footy smarts?"). Perhaps the players are hesitant to take the game on and back their gut instincts when they do get the ball due to a desire to follow the coaches orders to a tee? Its worrying IMO if the players and coaches are pretty happy with the level of effort & desire that the players are putting in, yet we cant get our hands on the ball.