I mean, the consistency is remarkable.

It, it, it has been remarkable the, the last few years, but as you just touched on, it, it took a little while.

I think in each of Chris's first two years we, we won five games in each of those years, and we did have a little bit of a, a bounce, but it, it took us then a few years to work out how to, how to be successful in finals.

I think we might've won one out of our first six finals over a three-year period.

And, and now certainly in the last four years, obviously we've been, you know, we've been consistently competitive, which is really what we, we set out to do.

And people often ask me, "Well, what's the...

Well, what is it? What's the, the, the magic?"

How important does that still remain 30 s- years on from that merger, Andrew, to ensure that there is that element, that respect to the old Fitzroy?

I mean, the consistency is remarkable.

It has been remarkable the last few years, but as you just touched on it, it took a little while.

I think in each of Chris's first two years, we won five games in each of those years.

Then we did have a little bit of a bounce, but it took us then a few years to work out how to be successful in finals.

I think we might've won one out of our first six finals over a three year period.

And now certainly in the last four years, obviously we've been, you know, we've been consistently competitive, which is really what we set out to do.

And, People often ask me, well, what is it? What's the magic? And, of course, it's not just one thing.

How important does that still remain 30 years on from that merger, Andrew, to ensure that there is that element, that respect to the old Fitzroy?

I mean, the consistency is remarkable.

It has been remarkable the last few years, but as you just touched on it, it took a little while.

I think in each of Chris's first two years, we won five games in each of those years.

Then we did have a little bit of a bounce, but it took us then a few years to work out how to be successful in finals.

I think we might've won one out of our first six finals over a three year period.

And now certainly in the last four years, obviously we've been, you know, we've been consistently competitive, which is really what we set out to do.

And, People often ask me, well, what is it? What's the magic? And, of course, it's not just one thing.

How important does that still remain 30 years on from that merger, Andrew, to ensure that there is that element, that respect to the old Fitzroy?

Yeah.

Yeah, look, putting the Gold Coast to one side, I think I certainly wouldn't throw stones at them.

We probably had a similar journey where we had a little bit of a jump and then hit a flat spot for a while in terms of our progression into being a competitive side.

So I'm sure the Gold Coast will work their way through that.

But participation on the Gold Coast is really strong.

I think it's well documented.

We've gone past South Australia in terms of participation.

Are you going well enough that you don't need academies?