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Melbournes Lynden Dunn admits he is frustrated at plying his trade in the VFL but says the lure of an elusive maiden finals campaign has him motivated for the future.The 29-year-old has long been a mainstay in the Melbourne backline but a combination of injury, poor form and the clubs emerging key defenders means Dunn has only played four senior games in 2016.The last of them was against St Kilda in Round 6, when Melbourne copped a 39-point reality check as Nick Riewoldt and Tim Membrey ran riot.Dunn told ESPN he deserved to be demoted after the Saints game, but the 165-game veteran said he knew what he needed to do to break back into the senior side.It [my season] has been frustrating - it certainly hasnt gone how Id planned it, he said.Being injured in pre-season, coming into the team to play a handful of games and then being dropped after the St Kilda game - which was fair enough - going back to the VFL and then injuring my hamstring four weeks ago. Its not ideal. Throw in a few [VFL] byes and Ive only played two games in the past two months. Its been very frustrating.But I just need to force my way back in. I had a meeting with Roosy [coach Paul Roos] last week, [and I] have to build a consistent block of benchmark performances.Weve got some really good young key defenders in the seniors at the moment - Tom McDonald has been holding the fort, with [McDonalds younger brother] Oscar and Sam Frost, who have been developing really well, so its hard not to play them if theyre doing a good job, and I love seeing them play well.After making his name as a rugged man-on-man defender, Dunn said he had also struggled to adapt to the Demons new zone defence.It certainly is a lot different; I think the media has put their own spin on our zone defence, but its definitely different than we have had in the past, he said.Having played a certain way your whole career, its difficult at times getting your head around it and the way the game is heading, but thats just modern footy. But I feel Ive made some real inroads this year with the game style, and Ive dropped a few kilos, Im moving better, but I just have to string some quality games together and force my way back in.Dunn arrived at Melbourne as the 15th pick in the 2004 national draft. Since then the Demons have endured a decade of turmoil, tragedy and shocking on-field results.Dunn steps into womens footy roleBut the club finally appears to be on the right track this season, playing an attacking brand of football and unearthing several talented youngsters to sit 10th on the ladder with a 7-8 record.Dunn, whose contract runs until the end of 2017, said he was determined to play on at the Demons and was motivated by the thought of finally breaking his AFL finals duck.[I am] contracted for next year and I plan to fulfil that at the Dees, he said.I think I have my best footy ahead of me - Ive got no doubt Ive got a new contract left in me and I feel like Ive got plenty to offer at AFL level.Its my 12th season at the Dees and weve hit rock bottom more than once, [but] seeing the group now, not just the players but the footy department, the whole club itself and our supporters, its so exciting.Finals is basically why I play footy; I want to play finals at Melbourne - we havent played finals since 2006 and Ive never played in an AFL final so thats a huge motivation for me. 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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Two years ago the British womens hockey team came up with this mission statement: Be the difference, create history, inspire the future.In Deodoro on Friday night it was mission accomplished with their dramatic penalty-shootout victory against double Olympic champions the Netherlands.It wasnt pretty for much of the match, which ended 3-3, but Team GB is on such a roll in Brazil that the path its athletes have been on seems to be golden come what may.Goalkeeper Maddie Hinch was, appropriately, kitted out in the colour of the medal she deserved and no player did more to help the team complete their mission.Inevitably, the Twittersphere was awash with tributes to the 27-year-old who was overlooked for the team that won bronze at London 2012. Gary Lineker and Stuart Broad were among those gushing with praise, and Michael Vaughan had the most outrageous suggestion. Even author J.K. Rowling saw the magic in Hinch and her shootout heroics.The goalkeeper was superb during a match which mostly saw Team GB on the back foot, having to make a series of impressive and key saves to provide hope and keep them in the contest.In the shootout, despite once needing the assistance of the post, she produced a shutout which enabled her side to win that 2-0.It helped that Britain had beaten the Netherlands in a shootout in the EuroHockey Championships last year, but Hinch would have known everything about their players anyway.Her secret? Research and practice -- and the help of a video analyst who used to work for Reading Football Club and is considered something of a genius within the squad.I am glad I made the nation proud, Hinch said. I was a bit nervous and my legs felt really heavy but I was confident as well. It was a great chance for me to do my bit as a goalie. I enjoy shootouts.We definitely backed ourselves going into it. I give myself a gameplan for each player and I go out and execute that.It is all in the notebook. I am constantly keeping my database up to date. We have a huge amount of data and I can go back years and years and look at details of one player, what she has done every time. I narrowed it to one plan for each player.Hinch even takes notes into the game written on her water bottle and the detailed, scientific approach is typical of a team under the leadership of coach Danny Kerry. Unlike the players for certain other national teams from the UK in the past, Team GB womens hockey players do practicce penalties.dddddddddddd.The fervent hope of Hinch and every other British player and coach who spoke to the media afterwards was that this result would give British hockey lift-off; that this would be their Sean Kerly moment - a game-changing filip for a sport that has been in the doldrums, as it was when he and the British mens team struck gold in Seoul.Do you remember watching in 1988, the mens final? captain Kate Richardson-Walsh asked wife and cool penalty-stroke taker in the shootout, Helen Richardson-Walsh.I was eight and I know interest in hockey increased so much. We really want that again. We want to inspire boys, girls, everybody to pick up a hockey stick. I hope the people who played at school go back and pick up a stick again.The game has changed. Its for everybody, a family sport - we welcome everybody with open arms.As the first same-sex married couple to win a Games title, they can speak from personal experience about the inclusive nature of the sport in Britain.To win an Olympic medal is special, Kate said. To win it with your wife standing next to you, taking the penalty at the pressure moment, is so special, and we will cherish this for the rest of our lives.This was Kates last competition in international hockey and Helen all but confirmed it would be hers, too. Like the sport that means so much to them, they have been through a lot.What a journey it has been for both of us, Helen said. We made our debuts in 1999 and its been 17 years of ups and, probably, mostly downs. We started very low, eighth in Sydney, and from that moment myself and Kate just wanted to win a gold medal and become Olympic champions. Its not been easy but it shows if you dedicate your life to something you can make it happen.Until the London cycle it was really a dream but that turned everything around. It was something that could happen. We got belief in the squad. Two years ago I didnt think I was going to be on the pitch again [after two back operations], let alone standing here winning a gold medal. Its incredible for hockey in our country.As a team, they certainly made a difference on Friday. History was created, too, as they became the first British womens hockey side to win an Olympic title. And if the last quarter of their match and the penalty shootout didnt inspire people, nothing will. ' ' '