PLAY to your strengths.

That’ll be the message from AFL Senior Coach Michael Voss to Patrick Cripps — and the rest of the playing group. 

As he did the media rounds at the back-end of last week, the topic of the co-captain was high on the agenda. 

For Voss, it’s about a system being put on place to enable the “individual brilliance” which he has constantly referred to since being appointed in the role last week. 

With the Club in the process of appointing a coaching panel, Voss said the focus would be on establishing a “strength-based football team”.

“It’s about maximising talent as much as anything. Our task is how we collectively can get ourselves working together in the role that we fulfil, and the system that we bring,” Voss said on ABC Radio.

“I’m really determined to be able to maximise the strengths of the players that we have, but I’ll also stress that we’re doing it all together to get the most out of everybody.”

On Cripps, Voss said it was essential that the team couldn’t leave too much to too few. 

In particular, he said that the 2019 Leigh Matthews Trophy winner would be backed in to do what he does best.

“He brings some really unique strengths that many don’t. We have to make sure we can bring that out there, and not necessarily think that we’re going to get all things out of ‘Crippa’,” he said.

“He’ll have a specific role that he needs to fill, and we’ll put the support around him to ensure that we get that done.

“The more recent people that have been able to do that successfully in really strong systems have been the Dusty Martins of the world, who has been a superstar, and Petracca in the way he’s been able to have his year this year,” he said.

“What they ask him to do is all part of that collective system that you put together, and we’re going to be requiring that moving forward.”