Senior coach Luke Beveridge spoke to the media ahead of Saturday’s clash with Essendon at Marvel Stadium.

Daniel and Liberatore:
(Liberatore) is a little bit sore in the knee. We’ve got to keep playing the long game with Tom, we felt giving him the week off will freshen him up a little bit. He got through most of training, but we didn’t want to risk him this week.
The injury (to Caleb Daniel) is a little bit different to what the original one was. He got through all of his training. Toby McLean was on a similar timeline with his hamstring and he’s fine. 
It’s unfortunate that Caleb is going through this little bit of turmoil with soft tissue. 
I think Caleb might be out for a few more weeks, and we’ll get him back and hopefully it doesn’t happen again.

The bounce-back:
Each week you make sure you keep your eye on the priorities and what’s important. We gained some learnings out of the Brisbane game, they’re a strong team at the moment, who are playing a physical brand.
As long as we’re on our game, that will take care of whether it’s an elimination final or just another round, but it’s obviously a pretty critical game for us.
How you approach the game, you need to make sure you’ve got your wits about you but also keeping a level head and calmness about you.

The opposition:
That’s the danger, they’ve had many changes. Essendon are above us at the moment and yes, they have some injuries but there can be a strength in that, it forces you to play in different ways with different personnel and the hunger is there.

Dale Morris:
Moz and I sat down for an hour yesterday and had a conversation. He’s weighing up what he wants to do in the future. The discussion was around whether or not he wants to keep playing and what that looks like, or what his vocational choice outside of footy can be.
We’re discussing that, whether or not he wants (to coach).
He’d be a good coach, Moz. He’s a great human being, but he also understands the game, so there’s some things he’s weighing up. 
Dale turns 37 next year and I don’t think there’s been many 36 year old’s who have ruptured an ACL and been determined to keep playing at the level, but Dale Morris is a very different man.