Coming off the back-end of last week's Challenge Game loss, Senior Coach Brad Scott is focussed on building consistency amongst the group and mentoring the team into the tail-end of the season. 

With injury blows lingering in the background, Scott's putting trust in the promising signs that the young side are showing. 

The rundown from Tuesday morning's presser:

Scott on... injury relief

On the surface, Nate Caddy will train fully today, Ben Hobbs will train fully and 'Goldy' (Todd Goldstein) managed last week so he'll train fully. So, there's a level of expectation those guys will be available, but won't be able to confirm until we get through that session and how they pull up tomorrow.

Scott on... player opportunities

The thing in team sport is you're trying to bring everyone together in pursuit of a common goal, but the reality is that you've always got players who are who are striving for different outcomes. 

And I've talked about a bit this year, I understand the issue around our injuries and lack of availability, but you talk to the players that have made their debut, they're thinking about the opportunity that provides for them, and the opportunity for whether it's a first year, an 18 year old first-gamer or, you know, someone like Dylan Shiel who's come back into the side to push his case, there's opportunities everywhere. 

There's huge opportunity for us as a team to keep improving the way that we play and it's really obvious that we'd like better availability, but we'll be a much better team if we can improve a whole lot of younger players and expose players to elite AFL football. 

Scott on... what success looks like for the remainder of the season

We're still really explicit about the fact that we're going out to get the job done.

I understand externally, people think we're just turning up to get beaten. We're turning up to get the job done, and we get to test ourselves again this week against a team that is in contention for a final eight position, if not even higher than that, and we get to test ourselves against those teams, so that for us is a great opportunity to continue to improve.

Of course, we want to get the outcome on the scoreboard. But more than that, it's the way that we play and the way that we play footy. Because we're mostly interested in taking steps forward and being the team that we ultimately want to be. 

Scott on... Bulldogs match-up

I think they're very good team. I think it talks to the competition at the moment that I rate them very highly, but they're not a lock off playing finals yet which talks to the fact that there's a lot of teams that are very, very capable. 

The Bulldogs have got a hold of some teams this year, including us. We've learned some lessons from that.

As hard as that is to deal with in the short term, that in my experience is when you when you grow and improve the most. And so we'll get to test ourselves just how much we've improved given changes in personnel. 

Scott on... Sean Murphy's departure and next steps

Sean is a really high-quality person. His first instinct and reaction, outside of just obvious disappointment, was he didn't want to leave the players short-changed and short staffed, and he wants to do what's best for the club, which speaks to his character and integrity.

We can't run an exhaustive process in the background, while not informing our current staff of what's happening. So, we felt that was the best process, and the best way morally to handle that.

Scott on... McKay and Tsatas 

In the interest of being as transparent as possible, I think it's unlikely he's (Ben McKay) going to get back this year, but we haven't ruled him out. It's a very unusual injury in footballers, it's an injury that unfortunately just takes time.

He's progressing, but he's progressing slowly. So I think it'd be unlikely but, I've stressed to him that you can't concede, and he's not conceding, he's pushing to try and get back, and I think that's really critical.

(About Elijah Tsatas) If you’re talking really general terms, whatever a standard hamstring is these days has been three weeks, he's probably that and a bit, but, that's, that's very rough terms. So he started running, and we'll just progress him. But it's always very difficult to give an exact time frame, but he won't be back this week or next.