Lake Wendouree coach Courtney McLean

Lake Wendouree coach Courtney McLean after the round five draw with East Point

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00:00 Tell me, how do you rate that performance? You were in front most of the day and they

00:03 just kept coming at you but you just weren't able to quite get across the line.

00:07 Yeah, look compared to last week we were really pleased with our attack. That was something we

00:13 needed to improve on, just our connections and timing and we did that really well so I was

00:18 pleased with that but in a sense I feel like we didn't convert enough of our turnovers,

00:23 was probably the main thing and although when the pressure came we were able to steady and

00:28 take control. We made heaps and heaps of changes and saw some positional things that we haven't

00:36 seen before so I'm pleased that we were able to do that and feel confident in some of those

00:39 positions and players out of position so that'll be good long term but to steady some of the

00:46 structures I'd like to do more as well. The two points might be handy long term too,

00:50 you don't have to worry about percentages but I suppose Issa had two draws now so you never know.

00:53 Oh have they? Yeah, it might be, I certainly would have preferred to win but again they were

00:59 really good, they were solid, really physical. They didn't miss either, every time it went down

01:03 there it just felt like they were going to score every time. Yeah, it seemed as though they got

01:07 it into the circle pretty cleanly often, that's why we needed to provide a bit more pressure off

01:12 the circle I think as well. Where do you think you girls are at? You made a lot of changes,

01:16 you're obviously still trying to beat down what you thought it was going to be like in six or

01:19 seven weeks time. Look, to be honest we're still trying combinations to fill the spot of Sadie,

01:25 our main centre who's gone down and will be out for quite a few weeks so we've got lots of options

01:33 and we're still waiting on a return for one of our defenders as well so just trying to fill those

01:38 gaps. We've certainly got versatility but probably not a lot of depth within the numbers. Yeah,

01:43 fair enough, no worries. As I say, two points, it's better than none anyway at the end isn't it?

01:48 - Yeah, thank you.