Ya nah, I don't see another 35% improvement coming from your already overachieving geriatrics.
Good start, so you'll finish well and from there I suppose anything is possible, but you're already getting everything out of the formally spudly Waite, Petrie, Brown you name it. You wouldn't want a lull in form or injury to any of your 28 pluses.
No team really plays anywhere remotely close to 100%, they might for the odd game but that isn't sustainable, I do think around 80% is sustainable though and I think we have that level of improvement from mostly the non-geriatrics.
I think most of our geriatrics are playing well, I think Petrie has some scope for improvement, is only averaging 1.3 goals per game, should be a bit higher. Waite is well ahead of expectation at 3.7 per game and Brown (not a geriatric) is on 2.2 per game. Averaging 16.8 goals per game and the 3 key forwards kicking 45% of the goals is a pretty solid position.
However, there is scope for improvement from non KPFs. Thomas has been underwhelming and we have lost Anderson, Garner and last week Turner so the options aren't great in the short-term for smaller forwards, will have to reluctantly give Nahas a game. Ziebell pushing forward at times has been a positive.
I think the only geriatric playing poor atm is Dal Santo, he has a lot of scope for improvement. Higgins who isn't quite geriatric level also has had a slow start after a NAB cup injury/minor surgery, I think he will play better footy as he gets match fit. Cunnington and Goldstein have been a little underwhelming while Wright and Atley typically play like rubbish first half of seasons but play much better footy later in the season. Oh, Swallow has also been pretty shit most of the time.
Hansen and Jacobs, have had disrupted pre-seasons, Hansen isn't right to go and Jacobs still well below his best. So I think we do have a fair bit of scope for improvement. I think if we were losing games the club would have probably been dropping some of the players. Our VFL team is also undefeated to date, have a lot of younger players playing some decent footy.
Some players may not improve on their current output, others may go backwards, but I still feel we have plenty of scope to improve and will need to improve to beat the other possible contenders, especially on the road.