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At present it’s obviously a bit of rolling up the sleeves and getting busy with the boys at all sorts of levels on and off the field. It’s a nice busy – if you call it work you have your wires crossed. So it’s certainly enjoyable that’s for sure.
The kids are coming along really nicely. It’s a fair process and again it’s a bit hard to juggle as we’ve got eight boys on contract and they’re potentially on our list until 2011, so we’ve got to juggle all those sort of boys and juggle the rest who are trying to get a contract. So it’s about balancing them up and seeing how they’re going. At this young age of their development they all mature at different rates so it’s getting that balance. So the good thing for the AFL and certainly for the Gold Coast Football Club is we get a couple of years to get it right. Unlike Fremantle, they were sort of thrown in after six or seven months of a license and they had to get it right over a preseason where we’ve got two years to get it right. So we’ve got to make sure that every decision we make from recruiting, from sponsorship, from membership, from staff levels and all those kind of things that we make sure we get it right. So when we get to 2011 — I’m not going to say we’ll be bulletproof — but we’ll have made some very good decisions so we can certainly get in there and cut it with some of the better sides going around.
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