GO again. 

AFL Senior Coach Michael Voss is looking for his side to put in another consistent 120-minute effort as it did in Perth last week. 

Speaking on the Lions, the return of players and the focal points of the week, here's what he had to say. 

On replicating their previous performance and the threat of Brisbane: 

"I think that’s the challenge: 'How do we replicate that same level of effort around the ball?'. We had each phase closer together so a bit more balance in our game than what we’ve had: we’ve gone to work on a fair few aspects of our game in the previous month, so it was nice to string one together for 120 minutes of the game.

"Obviously playing Brisbane, a formidable opponent, they’ve got some threats and challenges in their own team and they’ll ask us questions of ourselves. We certainly know what’s coming, we’re aware of the task ahead of us but we’re pretty determined to be able to execute the same way we did last week. 

On the Brisbane forwards:

"Sometimes you can narrow in on one or two but the reality is not only does the individual match ups need to execute their own roles, but the system needs to be able to stand up. When you look at their forward threats, they have plenty of those: it’s going to be a job to ensure that any ball that does get down there is pressurised and gives us half a chance."

On the next month of football:

"One of the challenges within the season is that we don’t sit there and draw conclusions as to what might be. We have to stay present.

"Maybe one or two players might have a look at that, we know it’s there and that it exists, but I don’t think we need to go about talking about it.

"We’ve got a pretty big job this week to get right and we face a pretty good opponent in Brisbane. We get in here every day and want to get better and certain things in our game style that we want to bring this weekend and we want to see that in full action against a really good opponent.

On the steps to getting better: 

"That’s the transfer we’re after: it’s ok to have these stepping stones but the reality is that intensity goes up and it’s pretty important. What’s important to also highlight is that we don’t have to do anything out of the ordinary, we’ve talked about raising the floor and being consistent as a team.

"If we can get that, we don’t have to do anything special, we just have to play the moment in front of us and make sure we execute really well as a footy team. At stages in the game, we hope we have those moments that we get those opportunities to stand up and really thrive on the occasion but that has to show itself before we get the opportunity to be able to do that, so hopefully we’re in the position to do that."

On the midfield battle with Brisbane: 

"The biggest thing about good football teams is that they don’t rely on one person to be able to get it done: they have a team they can deploy and clearly a strategy for Brisbane has been to expand that midfield depth.

"They’ve added Dunkley and Ashcroft who’s come through as a young talent – we’ll have to be on our game around the middle of the ground.

"We feel like we’ve got our group largely together, last week was the first time we’ve had them all playing together that I can remember: it’ll be a good challenge in the middle of the ground. Every coach says that’s where it starts – it certainly will start there on Friday night, no doubt."

On Matt Owies and Jesse Motlop: 

"[Owies will] be available, so we’ll work out the selection later today. Motlop will come in, he’s been a really valuable player to us and Matty spent a bit more time out so there’s a bit more to consider on what we do there. If anything, 'Mots' has gone out for a week and given him a chance to freshen up and hopefully can bring that energy for us on the floor that we need in the front half."

On the Tasmanian team and the effect of expansion clubs: 

"It’s always going to have an impact immediately because you’re growing another team, but as time has gone by, we’ve seen the talent has grown and the talent has emerged and we’re finding that in the AFLW right now.

"As we’re growing, it might stretch the talent pool a bit but there’s a generational change we’re trying to create here so I think we understand that there will be an immediate impact but hope that we get that generational participation numbers that go through the roof and that’s just the investment we might need to take as an industry to be able to grow the game to another level, and if that’s our role, we need to be able to play within it." 

On the Carlton Respects game: 

"It’s pretty significant. I’ve been here a couple of years and seeing the work that goes on behind that program has been pretty amazing. Being able to raise awareness around gender equality and the prevention of violence against women is something that we’ve seen in the program emerging and where it’s reaching.

"We talk about generational change, it’s clearly trying to do that within schools and hopefully we can continue to expand that reach."