told the Fox Footy Podcast on Monday night<\/a>. <\/p>\n\u201cAnd it\u2019s not a great year to stockpile draft picks probably either, so they\u2019re in the predicament where for them it\u2019s more internally \u2014 culturally they\u2019ve just got to get better; they\u2019ve got to learn to win. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve just got to build what they\u2019ve got. They\u2019ve got enough talent at the moment to be better than what they are, and that\u2019s where their focus has got to lie on their pre-season and what they\u2019re doing internally.\u201d<\/p>\n
‘Awkward’ Dons reality looms | 02:35<\/p>\n
Probed on why the club seemingly isn\u2019t pursuing a key defender such as Melbourne\u2019s Steven May, who\u2019s been made available, Montagna suggested the Roos had learned from their past ills. <\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe they\u2019ve already learnt, though \u2014 they did that with Griffin Logue and Aidan Corr, and it\u2019s not really getting the job done,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think maybe put some more faith in Charlie Comben, build around him, Wil Dawson, Matt Whitlock as well \u2014 they have drafted some young stocks, so maybe they\u2019re changing tack a little bit and saying \u2018well, we\u2019re down the bottom anyway, we\u2019re still a long way off, let\u2019s play these kids and give them chances, rather than just stockpiling some sort of ready-made veteran key defenders\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Kangaroos\u2019 all-conquering women\u2019s side has recorded more wins than the men\u2019s team for the sixth consecutive year despite playing less than half as many games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Melbourne sits as the AFL trade period\u2019s big mystery team, but Saints champion Leigh Montagna believes they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-193432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}