Hayden Young: We've Got a Great Opportunity, Destiny Is In Our Hands

Freo Docker Hayden Young dropped by the studio ahead of a big clash against the Bulldogs this Sunday. The guys asked about last Friday's loss to Brisbane, with Hayden admitting the team may have put too much pressure on themselves. But it’s all eyes forward, he’s pumped for this weekend’s game, saying the team’s ready to bounce back and hungry for a win. Tune in to hear their chat in full. 

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Good morning morning, Now are you see very up at
Adam Onward?

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Look he looks fair. Yeah, yeah, he looks fit. We're
calling it.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well. The game against Brisbane on Friday night we have
to Go did not go as planned. The pressure of
the raining Premiers brought from the first bounce was immense.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, it was. It was there obviously a quality side,
and yeah, I think also the occasion of the night
brought a little bit pressure with itself because we actually
looked at so many things, yeah, so many factors, and
because we actually looked at it when we were reviewed,
they only laid thirty seven tackles, so that's really low
and you sort of argue, well, all their pressure, like,
wasn't that great, But the perceived pressure of the night, Yeah,

(01:11):
I mean, yeah, their ability to sort of take away
time and space was really good. And I think also
when you don't sort of hit the scoreboard early. That
builds pressure and you sort of feel like we need
to kick a goal, we need to kick a goal,
when really the game, actually, if you look at sort
of the x's and o's, was looking pretty good all night,
pretty even in terms of inside fifties, clearance numbers, shots

(01:33):
on goal, we're actually pretty even. It's just the scoreboard.
It obviously didn't look the way we wanted to. They
did some things really well in terms of their ball movement.
They controlled the ball, took a lot of uncontested marks,
But the reality was we actually created a lot of opportunities,
and they did it through their sort of uncontested game.
We did it through contests and using our hands. So,

(01:54):
I mean, there was some positives on the night. There
were some things that we definitely could have done better,
but we definitely created enough opportunities and probably just didn't
deal with the pressure of not kicking straight.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
And of course they can handle the pressure. They showed
it last year, didn't they. Yeah, that's the thing, and
at the point of the end of the season.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
They are a mature side, and you know, you want
to be playing in those sort of games where you're
playing against quality opposition. And testing yourselves and they tested
us out in a few areas, which it's good to
get that lesson now so that you know, going forward
we can tighten the screws on a few things, which
is what we're going to do this week.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Well, let's go straight forward. The game against the Bulldogs
at Marvel Stadium on Sunday is critical. I'm not going
to say the D or D words. It's critical for
both sides. It's rather important whoever wins secures a spot
in the finals, whoever losers does not.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
How tight is that that is?

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, that has been tight.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
All Cadelaide and Geelong.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
I mean it's as evidenced by what sort of happened
to Free over the last couple of weeks. But I
mean it's it's it's critical, it is.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, I suppose. Yeah, we spoke about pressure in the
last game, but it's only going to increase. So it's
a great, great opportunity for us. And I mean we're
super excited. As I said, these are the sort of
games you want to be in, and we've got a
great opportunity destinies in our hands. And yeah, I think
off last week's game there's some sort of things we
can take away from it to learn and improve, and

(03:23):
some positives that are going to be really important this
week against what are a pretty pretty solid opposition.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Did you did you make contact with the Eagles and
say thanks goods? Could you have not gone down by, like,
you know, eighteen points.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, there was a small I thought, oh, maybe maybe
the Eagles could win and make it a bit easy
for us, but it wasn't the case. But yeah, No. Obviously,
one thing that the Bulldogs have done really well this
year is beaten up on sort of worse opposition. So yeah,
we're looking forward to challenging them. We know that we're
a quality opposition and we think that you know, when
they come up against really good opposition, it's more of

(03:58):
an even game, and when you put the game in
the contest, it can sort of challenge. And they love
sort of free flowing games where they can move the
ball really quickly, and we want to defend. Well, I'll
take that away from them and hopefully make the game
a little bit more of a contest where we know
it could be a bit more even.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
And one of the things the Docors have been so
good at is being so focused and not thinking about
you know, parallel positions of the past, which is probably
why you would rather I didn't say you were in
the same position. And is it hard to not let
that niggle into the side of your hand. It's because
I do think that's something the docors have become very
good at not letting that get them.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Are you having training for that, well, we do.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
We do have a sports and we think about these things.
And as it was mentioned earlier, the way that you know,
we obviously know the game, we know sort of the
headlines and all this sort of thing. And I suppose
we just came back to what's made us a really
good team this year and particularly over the last sort
of fifteen. We've won thirteen of our last fifteen games.
So we know that our process works. We know what

(04:59):
we need to do to perform well on the weekend,
and regardless of the you know, the results after this
weekend or the outcomes, you know, we can only really
take care of business. And that's a preparation for this weekend.
And Jail leads away with that. He's pretty dialed in
on preparation and making sure we cover all the x's
and o's and get our mindset right. So yeah. We

(05:20):
obviously we don't need to hype the game up anymore
than what we're all going to be pretty aware of
the situation.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
So I want to do it for the two F's
finals and five.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Exactly right, exactly exactly right. So there's plenty of plenty
of reasons to play for this weekend, and we don't Internally,
we definitely don't need to harp on it anymore. We
just need to focus on what's important.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Are you. It seemed like mostly a precaution that you
didn't play on Friday night, so I guess it's you
definitely playing well.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
I feel really good. Yeah, I feel really good. Yeah,
it looks good.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Expect into the studio, very surprised if I don't see
you out there on side.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
That's pretty that's a fair cause I felt good yesterday
train well, so I'm excited.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
All right, Well, unless there's you've got any final.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
All I wanted to hear was he's fit and he's playing,
and the team sick has done good, done the job,
read ready to go. That's all we need to know.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Bounce down. Our time is one fifteen go. The Dockers,
The Dockers