For all the froth over collingwood and Melbourne, we win on Thursday and we are equal on points, with some very winnable fixtures coming up. I am pleased we are flying well under the radar.
This times a billion. Without getting too far ahead of ourselves our next 7 rounds look like this:
Dogs home
Melbourne home
Carlton away
Saints home
Freo away
GWS home
Dogs Ballarat.
I dare say we start favourite in every single one of those games. We need to absolutely make this part of our draw count, because if you look at the fixture, you have:
Sydney's next 4 games. West Coast, Richmond, Geelong, North.
West Coast play Sydney, Adelaide and Collingwood all away over the next 5 weeks.
Richmond's next 4 is Geelong, Sydney at Etihad, Adelaide and GWS away.
Melbourne has Port, Geelong and the Crows all away in their next 6.
Geelong has Richmond, Sydney away, Crows away, Melbourne in the next 6 rounds.
So many games against fellow top 4 aspirants or tough road games.
We make the most of this 7 week period, and we'll be entrenched in the top 4. But your know....Ports.