"They might be, which we'll have to cop. If they boo us, they boo us. If they don't, they don't. We're not too worried about it."

"It's a pretty good advantage for us to play up there. West Coast haven't played there. We know the ground, we know the hotel, the facilities, a bit like the Canberra atmosphere as well. It's our home ground up there I suppose."

"We've played in front of some small crowds. You're used to the atmosphere being a bit lower. That's a small advantage but once the game starts, you're really oblivious to what the crowd's like anyway. We've had a few games like that before and it's not too bad. I don't really think it makes any difference when you're playing."

"Their core midfield group aren't too bad. On their day they can really perform. They've won the last (five) games against us, so they'll be going out there pretty confident. They're All-Australians who have performed consistently for years, a long period of time. They're capable. We're not going to take it lightly at all."

"I reckon the game for us last week was swept under the carpet a little bit. We were hurting a bit from that and we've had to sit on that for two weeks, so we're hoping to get back on track this week. We've got to pull our finger out this week."

"This season, we've let ourselves down with 15 or 20 minutes of football, letting sides kick four or five, six or eight goals. In this competition, it's just too hard to come back. We've played good quarters but we just haven't sustained it for the four quarters to get a win."

"I know the size and dimensions of it and I played there several times in my career. There was a good atmosphere there; it used to have a ferris wheel and all sorts of things happening, but all that makes no difference once the game starts."

"He is not totally confident that he is over his problem. We are weighing up whether we want to rest him again and get it completely right, or whether we think it is not going to get completely right and he has to play with that. What we have tried hasn't had a massive impact so they are looking at what's next for him."

"They are aware where they sit, they have been told in no uncertain fashion about what we believe their form line is really like. They are aware they are better than that and we believe they can come out of it by doing the same amount of hard work as a young player might be."

"Some of them have got to really start to step it up because they are closer to the end of their career than the start and young kids can step straight over the top of them. They need to show they want to be part of our next tilt at a premiership, I think that will keep them pretty hungry."