Senior coach Brad Scott spoke to the Queensland media during the club's pre-season training camp on the Gold Coast.

You’ve been in Melbourne for a while now… is it good to come back to Queensland?

Yeah, well we’ve had a bit of a heatwave in Melbourne ourselves but there’s nothing like the weather in Queensland. We took this opportunity to come up in the height of summer and train in fairly arduous conditions. I always found it beneficial when I played at Brisbane to come and train.

What did you get out of your study trip to the United States?

I got an enormous amount of it. There’s a lot of synergies in world sport and a lot of things we can take back. In ice hockey there are a lot of things the AFL football have taken out of that game, and I think there a lot of things now that are going to transfer out of ice hockey into footy.

What kind of things does ice hockey use that interests you?

Ice hockey was really the first sport to implement high number of rotations and high number of interchanges, football followed on from that. Football clubs have been working on zones now for a long time, and hockey’s been doing that for decades. I was interested in the next things that they’re doing, and that’s now our intellectual property and will stay that way. It will be interesting to see if the new innovations they’re bringing in come into football.

The Kookaburras are following the high rotation policy in hockey now also, what’s the next step in the AFL? Will it stay that way for a while with the 100 rotations a game?

It’s going to hit a limit. All players are different. You recruit players for different reasons. High rotations are very important to keep players fresh, but at the same time you don’t want to lose a tactical advantage from rotating a player just because they’re tired. As coaches we want to support match-ups where we can, so I think there’s a limit to the rotations and my personal opinion is we’re not far off that so it’s now about working those rotations into tactical advantages.

Is it a little bit sad that you don’t get the regular match-ups like when you were a player?

I think it is. Once upon a time football was a war of attrition, the guy you started on was usually the guy you finished on. The athletes have changed, the game’s changed a lot and the athletes I now have at my disposal are potentially a little bit lighter than they were ten years ago, but they are stronger and a lot quicker, they are different athletes so we’ve got to treat them differently.

Any games you’ve specifically targeted for 2010?

No, they’re all worth four points. We’ll target the NAB Cup against Geelong; then we play Port Adelaide round one of the regular season. There are no games that are bigger than others, we just have to try and win them all.

Have you spoken to Michael Voss since you took over the job?

We spoke quite a bit during the trade period, a little bit of argy bargy going on there. We’re still very good friends, I’d like to catch up more often but unfortunately it doesn’t happen too often.

David Hale didn’t have the best season last year, how’s he looking for 2010?

David Hale’s an AFL footballer, he’s not a VFL footballer. I expect Haley to rebound. It’s three or four months since we started training now and he’s been fantastic, one of the stand-outs in fact. He’s got to regain some confidence in his ability. David Hale when he played senior footy last year played deep forward in a team that averaged about 33 inside 50’s, so when you break it down and look at the opportunities he had, he actually did quite well.

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