Derek McGrath hands Gleeson timely confidence booster

Derek McGrath believes Austin Gleeson was too hard on himself in assessing his championship performances last year.

Before Christmas, Gleeson said he was ‘glad’ to be rid of the hurler of the year moniker, feeling he didn’t play as well as he would have liked during 2017.

McGrath read his player’s comments but would disagree with them. “You look back on the Championship last year, Austin played not a huge amount of league time. We tried to manage that whole expectation that we knew would come.