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I find it alarming when I continue to read comments that go a little something like, "It's only NAB cup so you can't take too much out of it." I have never really understood this kind of comment, nor do I really know what the poster means when they write it. For the people who are culprits of this kind of comment, I want to know what you look for and what you do take from a NAB cup game? In my eyes, after one dry game of football against the grand finalists of last year, I feel I can see a remarkable difference in the way we set up as a team and the positional movement of players. We are so much more organised out there as a team and it seems we have not only developed an effective forward press, but also an appetite for defensive running. Two words that were missing from the Bailey era. That's a huge amount that I took from one NAB cup game. Obviously there will be individual mistakes such as kicking errors, decision making errors, two players going for the same mark etc. They are the bumps you want to smooth out before the season proper, but maybe that's what people mean when they say, "you can't take too much out of a nab cup game.' Or maybe in the past, people have been looking for individual brilliance or dominance after a long pre-season? And that's what people mean by; "You can't take too much from a nab cup game." The two answers above are probably due to the last few years under Bailey's watch, where it seemed the common theme was about getting 'games into players.' Maybe people were assuming that once a player had reached x amount of games, they should be getting this amount of possessions or that amount of goals.... I am also a culprit of this kind of thought. Who knows... After one nab cup game I can see Neeld has instilled three goals : hardness, organisation (game plan) and defensive running. He clearly knows that we have the cattle to follow this kind of theme and as long as we continue to play in the manner we did, we will be in with a shot against most teams this year. As Bailey also alluded to and what most know, the more games our younger players play, the better they will become also. Now we have two things to look forward to. Can't wait for Saturday to see us at it again. Go you mighty dees!