22 Quotes by Grant Thomas

To have a really good, close, tight contest like that is invaluable and if you could orchestrate it, that's the sort of game you'd orchestrate I reckon - a good hard tussle for the whole game and then to think it's over and then having to go again - that's priceless.

Tonight was far and away our best performance (of the pre-season and season) and we'd like to use that as a foundation for the future.

It would be very disappointed if tummy taps or whacks in the guts prevented players from playing in grand finals.

A couple of weeks ago I visited their (umpires') conference.

They've all pulled up OK, so no change yet.

It probably wasn't picture perfect, but we didn't want it to be, so we wanted to be accountable and if you're accountable, you don't get many spare players, but we were pretty happy with most parts of it.

It's probably looking most likely he'll miss one.

They'll just train as normal. It will just be a really sharp 30-minute session. We don't expect there will be any problems.

Once he's signed off he's able to play and I take that as if he's able to play anywhere.