The heat is on
Lyon - Another year like this one and he'll get the arse
Cameron - The Ferrari has stalled in pit lane!
Buckley - Had better be 6 - 5 or more by the half way mark or those extra credits Eddie gave him will be all gone!
The pot is getting hotter
Goodwin - Missing the finals puts the heat up a notch, that should the Demons playing GWS this week...
Richardson - Saints would need a finals berth i reckon to keep his gig in 2019
C Scott - If he goes out in straight sets his finals record will do him in, his job is on the line this week.
Simpson - O Lucky man...not convinced about the Eagles long term prospects, but may have saved himself from the boiling pot
Getting warmer
Beveridge - What's going on at the Dogs? Behind the scenes stuff again? Losing Stringer? Are they nuts?
Hinkley - The president has called it about the players, but poor old Kenny might get the chop and it's not really his fault! Wouldn't mind him back at the Cats!
The heat turned down
Hardwick - If the Tigers go out in the preliminary like we all know they shouldn't, but probably will, then look out!
No, people are getting sucked into how we performed this year as opposed to their expectations of us at the beginning of the year which have us pretty much where most people predicted.
While it's infuriating that we missed the finals given the position we were in, we did damn well to be in that position to begin with and that's a largely because of Goodwin.
Gawn and Hogan missing half of the season.
Losing Spencer when had already lost Gawn leaving us with no legitimate ruckman.
Nate Jones missing 6 weeks.
Watts, Tyson and Viney missing 4 weeks (at the same time as well as Jones).
It kills me that we didn't make finals given the position we were in but taking a deep breath and stepping back and assessing we can take multiple things out of this season:
- We still managed to remain competitive and win some games without a legitimate ruckman and constantly changing forward line
- Showed an ability to fight back from a decent deficit
- Performed pretty well interstate
- Managed to actually win multiple games in a row
Missing the finals this year had no effect on Simon Goodwin's position at Melbourne, next year however is a different story but I fully expect to be playing finals footy next year.