Agreed Bobby......if you asked most people before the season started if Geelong would play finals this year, and win one, given their recruiting, and the softness of our draw, they would have all said 'anything less than that would be a failure'
If we don't win a final with all these things in our favour, as a well as a fit and deep playing list, then this season is indeed a failure.
7-1, 8-1, 9-1 won't count for anything and that's why I won't get carried away by ladder positions.
I actually had us scraping into the top eight myself so my pass mark was to actually make the eight!
Then again, I did not expect so many injured players to be holding up as well as they currently are. Thought Smith would be breaking down and be in and out of the team. Menzel, McCarthy, Bartel (head knocks and body to start breaking down on him which have not occurred).
I had grave doubts about our back-line, particularly Mackie and Enright as I felt we were simply too slow and both would be declining.
So yeh, I'm pretty impressed with what the team has done so far. Having said all that, it quickly turns around. The games against North Melbourne, GWS, Western Bulldogs and Sydney over a 5 week span is going to probably make or break our top 4 chances.
Win half of them or more, we're a great chance.
Surely on current form, we wouldn't lose all those games which is obviously worst case scenario.