Half Way Point

[Joose]

Well its hump day..how are we doing.
TBH we are about where I thought we'd be although an extra win would have been nice. I think the club has done ok considering the list age profile and constant injuries.

Positives ... Darcy, Treacy, Mundy, winning ugly, absorbing injuries, creating plenty of inside 50s

Negatives ... poor goalkicking, injuries, Walters has been below par

The next 3 games are against Collingwood, Carlton and Hawthorn. They have to be wins, all of them. Drop one and season done.

 

[eastfreo75]

Well its hump day..how are we doing.
TBH we are about where I thought we'd be although an extra win would have been nice. I think the club has done ok considering the list age profile and constant injuries.

Positives ... Darcy, Treacy, Mundy, winning ugly, absorbing injuries, creating plenty of inside 50s

Negatives ... poor goalkicking, injuries, Walters has been below par

The next 3 games are against Collingwood, Carlton and Hawthorn. They have to be wins, all of them. Drop one and season done.

Beware the team who just had their coach sacked. Collingwood will be motivated and freed by the caretaker coach.

Carlton are not afraid of us, especially when the umpires has their backs. By the time we play them, they might have sacked the coach as well.

Hawthorn in Tasmania is never easy for us.

 

[mightymouse75]

Without injuries we would have a few more wins & sneaking into the 8.

Not to be fooled, we have only beaten bottom end teams but you can see a synergy growing as they get some belief in themselves & jls game plan.
We still have a young team that will thrive once they have have played some more games together.. barring injuries

 

[mightymouse75]

Have to beat carlton & the eagles. Non negotiables

 

[westy1]

Without injuries we would have a few more wins & sneaking into the 8.

Not to be fooled, we have only beaten bottom end teams but you can see a synergy growing as they get some belief in themselves & jls game plan.
We still have a young team that will thrive once they have have played some more games together.. barring injuries

Sydney and GWS aren't bottom end teams

 

[Bastyy]

Beware the team who just had their coach sacked. Collingwood will be motivated and freed by the caretaker coach.

Carlton are not afraid of us, especially when the umpires has their backs. By the time we play them, they might have sacked the coach as well.

Hawthorn in Tasmania is never easy for us.

I would agree with a team that has a caretaker coach usually being fired up, but Robert Harvey is taking charge of them, so I'd argue there's nothing to worry about

 

[mattis117]

Well its hump day..how are we doing.
TBH we are about where I thought we'd be although an extra win would have been nice. I think the club has done ok considering the list age profile and constant injuries.

Positives ... Darcy, Treacy, Mundy, winning ugly, absorbing injuries, creating plenty of inside 50s

Negatives ... poor goalkicking, injuries, Walters has been below par

The next 3 games are against Collingwood, Carlton and Hawthorn. They have to be wins, all of them. Drop one and season done.

If we had beaten Essendon like we should have we'd say the season has been good. Definitely on the improve. Excited to see what we can produce over our remaining nine games.

 

[Nothing]

Beware the team who just had their coach sacked. Collingwood will be motivated and freed by the caretaker coach.

Carlton are not afraid of us, especially when the umpires has their backs. By the time we play them, they might have sacked the coach as well.

Hawthorn in Tasmania is never easy for us.

If Harvey is auditioning for the head role, there's no way he's having Pendles rolling around the forward line. It'll be like the Blues game a couple of seasons back when they started playing Murphy, Curnow and others in their best positions.

 

[eastfreo75]

If Harvey is auditioning for the head role, there's no way he's having Pendles rolling around the forward line. It'll be like the Blues game a couple of seasons back when they started playing Murphy, Curnow and others in their best positions.

Totally agree.

The caretaker coach has a few advantages that makes the teams performance inflated.

The game style is changed and the other coaches don't have enough video to counter any new ideas.

Players are fighting for their spots.

Caretaker will look short term and try to win games instead of development.

Pressure is taken off the club and players.

etc

 

[ChimpaWompa]

I thought collingwood played pretty freely against Adelaide anyway, Elliot will be a huge handful, just the type of player who chops us up.

 

[Deanismyhero]

Kind of where i thought we'd be.. The 1 more win would've been nice probably the Essendon game, Negatives been injuries and the goal kicking. But i like the look of what i see for us going forward.

 

[StingBitten]

Funny the difference a week makes.

People at the Bulldogs game saying they're done, not investing in a team that can't field a side, and can't take it to the next level.

We aren't at that level yet but it's incredible to think after the Doggies game we could've put out a team for Gold Coast with only one or two players not named starting 22 or emergency. Now it's figuring out who has to make way for Fyfe, Taberner, Logue and Wilson.

What I want for the rest of the year? Either shitloads of competitive losses leading to an awesome draft pick or we go hell for leather and fight for finals. Sydney are ripe for the picking and destiny is in our hands, if we can beat all the bottom 10 teams we are yet to play and claim a couple of top 8 scalps we could get over the line.

What a confidence booster that would be for the club.

 

[GoFreo4eva]

My hopes and expectations for this season had us at about 8-10th. At the halfway point we are close to meeting that despite a wretched run with injuries to many of the best players on the list, including all KPD’s and at least until recently our only true KPF. Despite some serious down days I still have to respect what the team and coaches have been able to manufacture to this point.

The growth of Darcy has been immense and super important to this. Despite his wayward kicking at times, Fyfe has been immense at times in the contest. Brayshaw is probing the high pick was very much worth it and if Cerra could get a bit more of the ball he might just press the amazing, magnificent and timeless David Mundy for best kick in the team. Liam Henry has started to show his wares and Serong has been fairy consistent but I am concerened he is wasted as a tagger but I concede it’s probably a deliberate development plan.

And what about Josh Treacy! It’s taken a little while for him to trust himself and his teammates to trust him fully. What a revelation... a tallish forward that leads at the ball, catches it pretty well and looks like he wants to kick the goal. Draft steal of the year for sure. aP getting thru a whole game, so far uninsured is also a real plus..

Its not all sunshine and roses and there a many things to work on and some players who need to lift but for now I am staying focussed on the good things!

 

[MadMundy]

We have to beat Carltank, Collingwood and Hawthorn. No excuses to drop those two games.

 

[Purple_Turtle]

Just picked it up from Barrett's article, but Sydney are playing 3 top-4 teams over the next few weeks. We have a bit of room to make finals if we finish strongly.

 

[GoFreo4eva]

We have to beat Carltank, Collingwood and Hawthorn. No excuses to drop those two games.

Beating Collingwood now looks a bit harder but hopefully we have some good Ins like Fyfe, Tabs and Logue..

 

[Tbonefreo]

Mundy would be leading the best and fairest by a long way

 

[Dockeroo]

Just picked it up from Barrett's article, but Sydney are playing 3 top-4 teams over the next few weeks. We have a bit of room to make finals if we finish strongly.

Yeah but they are playing three absolute deadbeats (Saints, North and Suns) in their final 3 games so we would need to be well ahead of them by round 20 to stand a chance

 

[WaywardSonSon]

I'm keeping the metric of nine wins (what we achieved in 2019, during the last full home and away season) fixed in the forefront of my mind, as it simply must be bettered this year...

 

[Heart Of Purple]

Probably gotta win the next 3 & beat Sydney I'm Sydney to play finals. If we make finals with the run we've had that'd be a big win for the season and a good platform for next year.

The depth is looking far better than it has which has been helped by injuries but we still need a few more to transition into stars.
Traecy, Logue, Cerra and at least one of the small forwards need to take that next step before we can push the better teams. Lobbs the same but I've lost confidence that he'll break out and think we might need to accept him as a pretty decent forward/ruck that doesn't put it all together that often.

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[StingBitten]

I was feeling optimistic after the GC game but overall for us to take it to the next level post bye we are going to need to see a lot of changes from the first half of the season.

No 1 - beat quality opposition.

We've knocked over North Melbourne, GC, Hawthorn, Adelaide, GWS and Sydney. Only Sydney in the top 8 and we are on the slide. This isn't 2019 when we started claiming some big scalps in the top 8.

No 2 - not deal with a constant, debilitating injury list.

Self explanatory, we need guys coming back into the side and fierce competition for spots.

The problem with our fixture is that we play bottom 10 teams away and top 8 teams at home (bar Carlton).

We could quite easily manage a win or two for the rest of the year, maybe have a bunch of close losses along the way. Or the ledger could the other way and we could pick up 4-6 wins.