All-Australian defender Luke Ryan says his teammates were frustrated at each other before half-time of last Saturday’s emphatic victory over Melbourne but turned their issues around quickly in the second half.

“Obviously we had two poor weeks before that and then to face the toughest challenge in the AFL… for the boys to come out and kick multiple goals and they only kick one goal for the half shows the maturity in the group, it was a great team performance,” he told Gareth Parker in his regular Thursday segment on 6PR Breakfast.

“There were a few heated discussions on field between players but it was all meaningful, just cos it was so frustrating cos we knew what we were doing wrong, so then we went into half time and JL was really positive.”

Ryan also revealed teammates had been playing pranks on skipper Nat Fyfe ahead of his debut in the WAFL this weekend.

“We’ve been playing some jokes on him for the last four weeks, we’ve been putting Burleys (the official WAFL football) inside his locker, which he hasn’t played with for about 12 years.”

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